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Sustainable Development Goal grants available in 2017

2/9/17 | News | by Barbara Klauber

    Since 2006 our diocese has allocated 0.7% of the diocesan budget to support work done to achieve the  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In 2016 the MDGs were replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals which extend and build on the achievements of the MDGs. In 2016,SDG funds were sent to 4 projects that are supported by our diocese:

     

    The Friends of Newala, the diocesan Haiti project, and to 2 projects supported by parishes, the Nambale Magnet School in Kenya, recommended by St. Mark’s, Milwaukee and the Barack Obama International Foundation School being built by the Liberian Assistance Program, recommended by ECW of Grace, Madison.

     

    It’s time again to consider distribution of the 0.7% ($5752 this year) to projects that work toward the achievement of the SDGs. If your parish or a group within your parish is supporting a a project that extends help to “the poorest on earth” you can apply for a grant from the SDG funds.

     

    For more information, please see our Letter to Parishes or contact Dcn. Carol Smith at 608-230-6888 or