Exploring Christian Practices Initiative

In this open and competitive initiative, the Endowment invites charitable organizations to submit proposals for grants of up to $2.5 million each that may be used for up to a five-year period to develop new and/or enhance existing programs that present promising strategies for advancing the aim of the initiative and provide compelling and thoughtful responses to the following guiding questions:

1. Who are the specific groups of individuals (both inside and outside the organization’s current constituents and the congregations that the organization supports) that the organization seeks to reach and serve, and what are the spiritual interests and questions of these individuals?
2. What Christian practices that are grounded in the organization’s theological and ecclesial tradition have played central roles in nourishing the faith of individuals in the organization’s community, and how can the organization retrieve, adapt, refine and deploy these practices in appropriate ways today to help individuals address their spiritual interests and questions, find and build community with others, nourish their religious lives and grow in faith?
3. What are the most appropriate and promising settings (both inside and outside of congregations) that are most conducive for individuals to explore and engage in a variety of Christian practices that the organization identified as most helpful and appropriate for today, and how can the organization both multiply opportunities and increase access to these settings to enable more individuals to explore and engage in these practices?

Interested charitable organizations should complete and submit an Interest Form and a one-page Letter of Interest by March 25, 2026.