The
Twenty First Century Fund
Of the
Liberal Religious Educators Association
March, 2007
Dear
Friends:
This letter brings an
invitation for you and your religious education colleagues to conceive of an
innovative project or service that serves all Unitarian Universalist
religious educators, and to make a grant application to LREDA’s
Twenty First Century Fund.
By vote of the LREDA
membership “The purpose of the Endowment Fund shall be to support the mission
of LREDA in serving all Unitarian Universalist
religious educators through innovative and supportive programs and services
which augment those which are made possible by the dues of the members.”
Such programs could include but are not limited to projects that make
innovative programs available to all religious educators, new services,
publications, electronic networks and trainings.
We hope that even modest
grants will provide the seed money for programs and services that enhance
professional development of all religious educators. This year, the fund
will have approximately $7,000 for all our grants. The application
deadline is December 31, 2008. The fund encourages grant applications for
projects that uniquely assist all religious educators and can not avail
themselves of other funding sources.
Please be advised that in
making grants, the 21st Century Fund Committee will be mindful of
the following statement in the LREDA BY-laws:
“LREDA is an anti-racist, anti-oppressive,
multicultural welcoming organization that supports and advocates for religious
educators of every age, race/ethnicity, class, gender, gender identity,
physical ability and sexual orientation.”
Sincerely,
Ruth Owen, Chair, Twenty
First Century Committee,
Dawn Star Borschelt, Gabrielle Farrell, and Jude Henzy