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Micro Grants

CBOQ Micro-Grants

CBOQ is excited to be able to equip its churches and leaders through new micro-grants. Designed to give your CBOQ church’s ministry a boost, we are pleased to offer grants in the following categories:

  • Communications Enhancement
  • Missional Generosity
  • Student-Led Initiatives

 

We are excited for the opportunities these grants will open for our family of churches! Find out more about the requirements and fill out the application below.

Priority will be given to churches who haven’t received a grant in the past 10 years and will be evaluated in the order in which they are received.
Churches can only apply for a micro grant once in one calendar year for only one category (Missional Generosity, Communication Enhancement Grants). Churches applying for a Student Initiatives Grant may apply to one of the other categories.

If you would like to talk through your application as you develop it, please request a coach below.

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Application Deadlines

Spring Grants Deadline: April 15
Fall Grants Deadline: October 15

Micro Grant Reports

Spring Reports due April 15
Fall reports due October 15
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If you would like to talk through your application as you develop it, please request a coach below.

Communication Enhancement Grant

COVID-19 has meant that many churches have incurred additional communications costs. We have heard from many of you that you have spent precious amounts of time and money getting your services online. If your CBOQ church needs help with rising video and hosting production costs, we encourage you to meet with your church leadership and apply.

One-time Communications Enhancement Grant of up to $1000 are available.

Grant application selection criteria is based on:

  1. We will give priority to churches who have not received a CBOQ grant in the last 2 years
  2. Churches can only apply to one micro grant in a calendar year. You cannot apply to more than one category in a calendar year.
  3. Order of grant applications being received before the deadline

 

What can these funds be used for?

  • New A/V technology – microphone, computer, camera, cables etc.
  • Web design / re-design costs
  • Service subscriptions such as Zoom, copyright, etc.

 

When is the grant deadline?

  • There are two intake deadlines each year: April 15 and October 15

 

What do we need to do as a church to be eligible?

  • Fill out the  Communications Enhancement Grant Application below. This will include a resolution by your board (empowered to make financial decision).
  • We want to hear how you will use this grant to further the ministry of your congregation. A report will be requested toward the end of the grant period.

Missional Generosity Grant

Your church has made some vital adjustments during the pandemic that have connected you with people in your community who are in great need. We would like to help you show the generosity of God’s love and compassion by supporting you in acts of missional kindness.

We encourage your church to apply for a one-time Missional Generosity Grant from $500 – $1000.

Grant application selection criteria is based on:

  1. We will give priority to churches who have not received a CBOQ grant in the last 2 years
  2. Churches can only apply to one micro grant in a calendar year. You cannot apply to more than one category in a calendar year.
  3. Order of grant applications received before the deadline

What can these funds be used for?

Missional Generosity Grant funds can be used for activities such as the following:

  • Start a clothing/food bank or to prepare meals to give to families in need
  • A new missional activity
  • Allocate five families in your community who need your support and prepare a gift hamper to be given from your church to each one
  • Have a financial planner do an online training session on “Cash & COVID-19” that focuses on budgeting or offer an online learning experience with a local therapist to talk about “Crisis and Emotion.”
  • Is there any new housing in your community? Prepare a welcome basket from your church to give to a number of the new households
  • Offer virtual babysitting/child supervision, potentially with a group, run a virtual daycare
  • Community garden

 

When is the grant deadline?

  • There are two intake deadlines: April 15 and October 15

 

What do we need to do as a church to be eligible?

  • Fill out the Missional Generosity Grant Application below
    This will include a resolution by your board (empowered to make financial decision).
  • We want to hear how you will use this grant to further the ministry of your congregation. A report will be requested toward the end of the grant period.

Student-Led Initiative Grants

Youth and young adults are capable of dreaming different, creative and diverse ways in bringing Jesus’s good news to their peers and beyond. Part of the church’s responsibility is to support, empower and advocate alongside the inspirations these youth within our churches receive from God.

As your youth begin to receive these seeds of ministry, we encourage your church/youth ministry to come alongside them to support and encourage; one way is to apply on their behalf for one of our Student-Led Initiatives microgrants up to $1000.

Grant application selection criteria is based on:

  1. The student’s (defined as those ages 25 years and younger) project proposal including how they will lead and implement that project.
  2. The church’s endorsement of the project including how they will support and advocate for that student.
  3. Churches can only apply to one micro grant in a calendar year. 
  4. Order of grant applications being received before the deadline.


What can these funds be used for?

  • Any student-led ministry initiative that is endorsed by the church (e.g. community outreach, school outreach, inter-church service opportunity, etc.)


When is the grant deadline?

  • There are two intake deadlines: April 15 and October 15


What do we need to do as a church to be eligible?

  • A written project proposal by the student including metrics or ROI aligned to the purpose and mandate of their project.
  • Fill out the Student-Led Initiatives Grant Application belowThis will include a resolution by your governing board (empowered to make financial decision).
  • Before the application deadline, a meeting between the student and a CBOQ Next Gen representative (e.g. Alvin Lau, CBOQ Youth Ministries Associate).
  • The student(s) and church will submit a written report during the mid-point and end-point of the project outlining the status of the project in relation to its objectives, the celebrations of the project and improvements.

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