Resolves of the Executive Council

Resolved, That the Executive Council, meeting June 25-28, 2021 via online meeting, approve and authorize the following, as recommended by the Task Force on Care of Creation and Environmental Racism and reviewed and recommended by the Joint Standing Committee on Mission Within The Episcopal Church. The 10 grants listed below total $185,300

The distribution of the grants is subject to the full payment of the 2020 diocesan assessment or granted diocesan waiver.

• The Healing Pod: Resilience and Resurrection through Education, Spiritual Formation and Healing, Saint Ambrose Church, Diocese of North Carolina, $24,000
• Body and Land, Church of the Holy Spirit, Diocese of Connecticut, $22,000
• Abenaki Ancestral Foodways project, Mission Farm, Diocese of Vermont, $23,750
• River Cane Planting: Saving the Waterways and Revitalizing Cherokee Culture, Lake Logan Conference Center, Diocese of Western Carolina, $23,000
• Building a robust Diocesan Creation Care ministry, Creation Care Consortium of Diocese of Long Island, $15,000
• On Sacred ground, Wyoming Service Corp, Diocese of Wyoming, $22,550
• Creation climate resilience in Harlem Park, St. James Episcopal Church, Diocese of Maryland, $15,000
• Standing as stone, St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Camp, Diocese of North Dakota, $11,000
• Just transition and Mangrove Conservation, Locally Haiti, Diocese of Colorado, $19,000
• Shade equity and youth leadership, Imago Dei Middle School, Diocese of Arizona, $10,000