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1 64 ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • State Public Policy Network development • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: North Porch Women and Infants’ Centers, $9,400 NORTH CAROLINA • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Campus Ministry Leadership Grant: “A Moveable Feast” – Johnson Community College, Smithfield; Barton College, Wilson; North Carolina Central University, Durham; and Johnson C Smith University, Charlotte, $30,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: LEAF, Inc. (Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Friends) at Elon University, $5,000 • Clergy Indaba in partnership with the Dioceses of Atlanta, Long Island, Maryland, and North Carolina, with attendance of clergy and lay persons from more than 30 dioceses • Grants for Historically Black Colleges: St. Augustine’s, Raleigh, $654,147.48