If you are leading a NWC within the 1001 NWC movement, you are eligible to apply for funding for your ministry from our network. Our national office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- the founding organization of the 1001 movement -- offers several grants to new worshipping communities. This granting community consists of volunteers from the church who are passionate about this movement of the spirit, and they are eager to hear from you and to know what God is doing in your midst.

Each of the applications listed for funding requires that the NWC present the application for review and signing to their local presbytery. Many of our NWCs are already connected with their presbytery. Other communities may have emerged without that type of connection; if this is the case, we would love to help connect you meaningfully to the presbytery where your NWC is located. You can either draft an application of your grant for us to see, or connect with your regional representative to schedule a quick call on next steps.

Those who have finished their grant applications and have them signed can follow the instructions on the application on how to submit in advance of the next rolling application deadline.

Be yourself. Tell us in your own words -- and language -- how you have come to the place you are at this time. We also recommend that you connect with the appointed colleague at your local presbytery to let them know your NWC is wanting to submit a Mission Program Grant for review. The presbytery-appointee (either a team of the presbytery that supports NWC or a representative person) will need to sign the grant before you send it to us.

If you aren't sure how to approach this process, or are a new colleague in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), we welcome you. Please be in touch with your regional representative Shawn Kang or Gad Mpoyo, and we will introduce you to your presbytery and help you meaningfully navigate this process.

Staff of 1001 are glad to review applicant grants and help you fine-tune or express your vision for your new worshipping community. If you have a staff member you know especially well, please feel free to contact them to set up a time to meet. For questions about the Grants Team, or the process, please contact Sarah Dunne Pickrell at nwcgrants@pcusa.org.

Mission Program Grants are dispersed from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to your local presbytery (the one that signed the grant). Funds are generally dispersed once granting criteria within the month following approval (about two months after the application deadline or sooner) by way of a grant agreement. Once determinations are made by our Mission Program Grant Committee, our staff will be in touch with the applicant presbytery and NWC via email.

We encourage all applicants to determine how grants will be made available to the NWC prior to or during the application process (whether through a special account coding with the treasurer or financial manager, or through transfer of funds to the NWC's fiscal sponsor, etc). We also encourage the presbytery of support to set up their NWC leader with a corporate card so that funds can be accessed efficiently for ministry use and to establish a process for these cards that consists of itemized receipt submission and statement reconciliation.

NWCs may use the grant for salary support of NWC leaders, space or programmatic expenses.