The MDG Subcommittee of the diocese's Chartered Committee for Global Missions announces that grant applications for projects related to the Millennium Development Goals are now being accepted.
The application deadline for the next granting cycle is April 1, 2010.
More information, including grant criteria, is here...
Despite the fact that the General Convention of the Episcopal Church had to cut nearly $23 million from the Church's budget over the next three years, the 0.7% funding for Millennium Development Goals was restored in the approved budget thanks in large part to testimony offered by a coalition committed to serving the world's poor. Read all about it here.
Since 2006, the MDGs have been our church's #1 budget and programmatic priority. Now, the Episcopal Church's Executive Council has proposed a budget to General Convention that eliminates the 0.7% support for the Millennium Development Goals. Lots of people have something to say about that, including the Diocese of North Carolina's MDG Subcommittee. For a quick sampling, read a letter sent to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, House of Deputies president Bonnie Anderson, our three bishops and deputies to General Convention here, then read Lauren Stanley's
"Put it Back" column in Episcopal Café here.
"(click on image to enlarge)"Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation grew up around the mission of the Millennium Development Goals. E4GR is operating a "virtual booth" at General Convention, so that everyone can stay informed about the Goals and the fight to keep them a priority of the national church. Visit the booth here.
On May 17, Saint Mary's School in Raleigh held its 167th Commencement exercises. Following time-honored ritual, graduates, faculty, family and friends looked back at accomplishments before looking ahead. One endeavor in particular stood out as an example of the past informing the present and future: the Millennium Development Goals-focused Nets for Life.
Learn more here...
In 2008, the Diocese of North Carolina's Millennium Development Goals Subcommittee awarded global missions grants totaling $28,000. This money was divided between eight organizations whose work addresses one or more of the
Goals. Learn all about the grantees here...
In 2006 that the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of NC committed to helping achieve the Millennium Development Goals, which, as the Rev. Mike Kinman, Executive Director of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation, explains, "are a part of the larger work of Christ drawing the whole world to himself, bringing wholeness to all that has been broken and, life by life, fulfilling the dream God has for all humanity."
