Neighbors in Need Grant Information
With the generous support of UCC members, churches and conferences, Neighbors in Need grants are available to UCC churches or affiliated organizations doing justice in their community through advocacy efforts and direct service projects.
About Grant Options
Direct Service
($1,000 – $3,000)
Provides funding to meet the immediate needs of an individual or group (i.e. food, clothing, utilities).
Advocacy
($3,001 – $5,000)
Offers funding to assist communities who wish to change policy on a state or federal level via an advocacy campaign.
Grass Top
($5,001 – $10,000)
Highly competitive tier which seeks to award uniquely innovative programs which can be replicated in other settings.
Share your story.
If you were a recipient of a Neighbors in Need (NIN) grant, help us inform our members whose contributions to NIN have made your grant possible about how lives have been transformed because of their generosity.
Neighbors in Need: Stories of Faith & Transformation
Read about the ministries who have received a grant and how they found success with it in their communities.
Neighbors in Need donations help bolster justice work in churches and communities
This summer, an average of 172 children participated daily in STEAM (science, technology,…
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Phoenix church adapts its border ministry to meet neighbors’ changing needs
Sometimes a church sets out to help its neighbors in need. Then those needs change — and the…
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Neighbors in Need helps people understand housing insecurity, provides pandemic relief
Helping people understand homelessness through the insight of others who have lived with housing…
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Questions? Contact UCC.
Bentley deBardelaben-Phillip
Executive Associate Justice & Local Church Ministries
216-736-3713
debardeb@ucc.org