Racial Equity and Women’s Intercultural Ministries has chosen five projects to honor with grants, totaling more than $96,000, from the Native American Leadership Development Fund.
The REWIM grant team recently met to review applications and approved grants for varied projects, including preservation of a Native American language, a weekend of healing and celebration in the Northeast, and community outreach for those in need on a South Dakota reservation.
The grants are made available through the Presbyterian Mission Agency and benefit Native American leaders or organizations and committees working within the Native community for the purpose of education or leadership development, said the Rev. Irvin Porter, Associate for Native American Intercultural Congregational Support.
Over the years, the fund has been used to assist Native American congregations and communities, from “Alaska to New York state, Dakota Presbytery to Oklahoma and Arizona,” to further the cause of Christ, Porter said.
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