Report to the Church 2015 | Page 109

ALABAMA • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Banks Caddell Partnership, $1,500 • Mission Enterprise Zone Grant: Be the Change: Alabama, $20,000 • New Church Start Grant: The Abbey, $100,000 • Scholarships, $12,642 • Video created and shared with the wider Church: Trinity Church, Clanton • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s) ALASKA • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Building Leaders & Communities for Transformational Churches, $8,200 • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Bishops’ Native Collaborative, for use in Alaska, Montana, Navajoland, North Dakota, South Dakota, $160,100 • Advocacy: Deepened and intensified longstanding advocacy support for the environmental concerns of the Gwich’in Indians, nearly all of whom are Episcopalians and who have provided one of the most robust and politically influential defenses of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge against oil drilling. Support work has included Missionary Society participation and leadership in the D.C.-based Arctic Coalition and regular engagement and consultation with the Gwich’in Steering Committee and the Bishop of Alaska. • Block grants, $866,666 • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The 10 9