brown on green, A Regular column about finances

Granted

Free Will Baptist Foundation is happy to announce the awarding of grants to our ministries. For many years, our ministries have applied for grants from non-denominational grant-making organizations. Most have been rejected because of a bias against denominational ministries. Now, the grants being made by the Foundation will be exclusively for Free Will Baptist ministries.

The eight grants issued in 2015 are pilot grants and limited to national departments and commissions. The purpose of the pilot grant program was to give the Foundation grant committee (the nine-member elected board) a trial run through the process of making these hard decisions on a smaller scale before the grant program becomes much larger. We also need to perfect the follow-up process to make sure grant funds are used for the purposes requested.

The next round of grants will be available to Free Will Baptist national departments, commissions, and other ministries as well. While it is difficult to project the economy and what may happen, we believe the Foundation will be in a position to award around $500,000 in grants in 2017.

About the Writer: David Brown, CPA, became director of the Free Will Baptist Foundation in 2007. Send questions to David at david@nafwb.org. To learn how the Foundation can help you become a more effective giver, call 877-336-7575.