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For many individuals, living out their faith means more than just providing immediate relief to the poor—it involves a wholistic approach that includes actively working to restore and revitalize their neighborhoods. This commitment ensures that communities are not only cared for in the moment but are also empowered to thrive in a renewed and vibrant environment.

All across the country, churches, and interfaith coalitions are channeling their energies into programs that do more than provide band-aids for the problems of poverty.

They are illustrating how, deeply held religious values can be a powerful force for change.

Kingdom-driven economic development occurs when community economic development is intentionally embraced as a vital and integral part of the ministry efforts within a faith-based, kingdom-minded congregation, fostering sustainable growth and holistic transformation..

Our focus is to expand opportunities in economically developing neighborhoods by collaborating with local stakeholders to reduce neighborhood blight, encourage entrepreneurship, and enhance quality of life in urban communities.

Kingdom-driven community economic development can be defined as the active involvement and leadership of faith-based institutions in initiatives and projects specifically designed to revitalize and strengthen their local communities.

These efforts focus on establishing sustainable economic development strategies that not only attract meaningful investments but also foster long-term wealth-building opportunities.

Additionally, this approach encourages entrepreneurship, that support small business growth as vital components for creating prosperous, self-sufficient communities aligned with Kingdom principles.

In order to launch community projects, faith-based institutions must form joint-ventures with other Kingdom, faith-driven organizations.

|The Kingdom Economic Growth Blueprint, also known as K.E.G.P, was thoughtfully established by our dedicated corporate Office of Corporate Social Responsibility. This initiative is a collaborative effort with our trusted faith-driven business partner, reflecting our shared commitment to fostering sustainable economic development within the communities we serve.

This project is our model of how effective joint-ventures can be created between faith-driven businesses, church communities, and local neighborhood & community stakeholders.

The Kingdom Economic Growth Blueprint- supports several programs in the area of :

—Community Economic Development—fostering the growth and sustainability of Local Economic Growth, while significantly enhancing the overall prosperity, well-being, and quality of life for all residents and stakeholders involved.
—an approach which allows and encourages local people to work together to bring economic benefits and improved quality of life for all residents.

THIS PROJECT INcludes A SERIES OF econ.dev. TRAINING in four (4) areas, such as:

— Program Development |
A structured approach involving understanding needs, defining goals, designing solutions, implementing them, and ensuring ongoing effectiveness.
— Sustainability |
Creating economic solutions that can thrive over long periods without depleting resources.
— Technical Assistance |
Involves the use of specialized devices, software, and expertise to enhance & enable various tasks or functions.
— Capacity Building |
How to achieving goals effectively and sustainably, by developing skills, knowledge, resources, and systems to improve performance and adaptability in changing environments.

These training modules also introduces
Rhema Consulting Solutions—Office of (CSR), and its policy and program priorities to local grassroots organizations.

We will work towards:

• Training for smaller grassroots and
  faith-based organizations.

• Meeting with faith leaders to address issues involved in funding and grants to the faith community.

• Planning groups to build strategic alliances with faith-based and community groups (Kingdom Alliance).

• Hosting community involvement with small congregations and community stakeholders, around pertinent issues of economic, jobs and entrepreneurship.

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Mainstream news often reports many examples of traditional economic development efforts.

Churches, ministries and faith-driven influencers, and business, must now make a special effort and be willing to do more than is required, to achieve its Kingdom purpose!

In addition to providing various social services, the church and kingdom-driven organizations and individuals, must become the forerunner of economic development efforts in their local communities.

However, one must consistently “remember” our biblical mandate:

(2 Cor. 6:14)

Do not make mismatched alliances with unbelievers, (includes “unbelieving” believers), that is inconsistent with Kingdom Truth & Faith.

For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

*Fiscal Year Grant Announcements*

In collaboration with our Corporate Office of CSR and our Kingdom Business Leaders' Branch, we are proud to formally announce exciting matching grant opportunities that have been thoughtfully designed to specifically support and empower local “Kingdom-Driven” community economic development projects.

These initiatives must clearly align with Kingdom purposes and priorities, serving as the fundamental and guiding foundation for the entire project.

We strongly encourage entrepreneurs and leaders to be intentional, thoughtful, and deliberate in every aspect of their efforts; ensuring that every action reflects Kingdom purpose.

Our local community grants are awarded through an open application process and provide funding directly from our Corporate Giving, to local organizations in central & eastern North Carolina.

Guidelines

Local community matching grants are effective means of funding small projects, especially those with active community support.

• Eligible community, faith-driven organizations must operate on the local level (or be a chapter of a larger organization that operates locally) and directly benefit the service area of the facility from which they are requesting funding.

• The annual grant cycle usually starts May 1, and the application deadline is June 30.

• Applications and Project details, may be submitted at any time during this funding cycle. Please note that applications will only remain active in our system for 30 days, and at the end of this period they will be automatically rejected.

• All organizations applying for a local Community Grant will be “vetted,” within the application process. Vetting is the process of performing a background check or doing fact-checking prior to making any decision, on you and your organization before conferring an award.

• Organizations must be a grassroots, faith-driven organization with a proposed project that benefit the community at large.

Grant Eligibility
To receive funding for any type of grant, organizations must:

• Demonstrate fiscal and administrative stability.

• Deliver services addressing critical community needs.

• Have a proposed project that benefits the community at large.

Grant proposals are also evaluated based on the following considerations:

1. Ability to measure and report on established outcomes-aligned to strategic objectives, which includes providing a forecast of expected outcomes in the application, and may also require periodic impact reports with actual project/program results.

2. Promote diversity and inclusion, and leverage sustainable, best practices and principles.

3. Promote innovation, and its capability to cope and perform well under an increased and expanding workload.

4. Incorporate human capital and volunteerism opportunities.

Applicants must also register with RHEMA C-Solutions—Office of Corporate Social Responsibility for each project submitted.

If your organization is not registered with us, and you do not have an active registered account by the deadline, the application will NOT be accepted.

NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE.