Services to Churches

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Bremer Mission Grant Forms are now available and grants will be distributed in February 2012.

Click Here for Bremer Mission Grant Forms

The Dakotas United Methodist Foundation Board of Directors has approved funding for approximately $10,000 in Matching Grants for missions projects in churches/ ministries in the Dakotas Conference from the Bremer Mission Endowment. 

Requirements for grants are as follows:

• Grants are available for $250 or $500. 
• That the local church/ministry demonstrates a local match of the grant amount.
• The mission projects can be local through global.
• Email a picture of the mission project to bblumer@DakotasUMF.org

 

2011 Ministry Development Matching Grants - The 2011 Grants have been given out for this year.  The next Ministry grants will be announced in June 2012, distributed in August 2012.

• The grants are for $500 and $1000 are made available from the Erma House Endowment and your undesignated gifts.
• The local church/ministry demonstrates a local match of the grant.
• The local church/ministry demonstrates how the grant will assist in growing the work of the Christ and the Church in the Dakotas.
• Another round of grants will be released at Annual Conference 2012, applications due Aug. 1, 2012.

Click here to see 2011 Funded Grants
Click here to see 2010 Funded Grants
Click here to see 2009 Funded Grants
Click here to see 2008 Funded Grants
Click here to see the 2007 Funded Grants
Click here to see grants funded in previous years

Here are other services/opportunities we have to offer:

• “Other Ways to Give” - There are many other ways to give other than simply from a checkbook.   We would be glad to explain these different ideas to a committee or group in your church.  This workshop always gets people thinking of different ways to support your church or the Foundation.
• Named Endowments may be set up with members in your church.  A percentage from that endowment is returned to your church in the donor’s name every year.  It may be designated for virtually any ministry - to support building maintenance, mission trips, camp scholarships, or an undesignated gift for your church.  Provides a way for families to be remembered and support your local church in perpetuity.
• Estate Planning Seminars - We prefer to present these seminars with an attorney and financial planner from your church.  This gives people information for planning for their future through wills, estates, tax/income preservation and other ways for them to receive charitable giving advantages.
• Stewardship/Annual Campaign Workshops
• A gift that pays you back! They are called Charitable Gift Annuities and in return for a gift we pay the donor back based on their age.  There are tax benefits and the donor designates a beneficiary – which could be your local church.
• Free brochures on Better Estate Planning, How to Make a Will that Works, Giving Securities, Giving Real Estate.

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