Reaching more than enough in every U.S. county will take new ways of working together – and new ways of funding that work.
The More Than Enough Fellowship is a funded launch cohort that will guide you and other collaborators in your community through the earliest stages of working together to provide more than enough for children and families in foster care.
Alongside matching funding to fuel your collaboration, you’ll find deep connection with others working to rally the Body of Christ around children and families in your county. And through customized learning and coaching, you and your fellow local collaborators will grow as leaders and create a plan to launch a successful local foster care network.
You don't have to have everything figured out.
Let us come alongside you and we'll get there together! Through the courses and coaching built into the More Than Enough Fellowship, over the span of nine months you and your fellow collaborators will:
Explore
Explore
what more than enough would look like for your unique community and core principles to help you get there
Build
Build
relationships and trust both as a group and with other foster care leaders where you live
Identify
Identify
key stakeholders in your county that could work together to fill the gaps that will make the biggest difference for children and families
Create
Create
a plan of what's next for your county and identify a shared project to tackle together–with matching grant funding to help make it a reality
How to Apply
Find at least three additional collaborators in your community to join you in the Fellowship. Two of the four collaborators in your group should represent churches. Then apply for the Fellowship below by:
Brainstorming answers to the application questions together
Reviewing the key learning dates and requirements
Selecting one person to submit the application on behalf of the group
Inside the Learning and Connection
As part of the Fellowship, you’ll participate in customized coaching and support to help you move through the first three stages of working together as a local collaborative network. (The schedule for your specific cohort is available when you review the application above.)
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, this program is designed to fuel local foster care collaboration in the United States. We cannot distribute grants internationally or for international work.
One organization cannot join the Fellowship alone. The cohort is intended to help build relationships, friendships, partnerships, and networks within a specific county or community. The application and MOU must be completed and agreed to by a minimum of four collaborators.
- Each group member must represent a different organization, church, agency, or group.
- At least two group members must represent a church. This can be a pastor, associate pastor, ministry leader, or volunteer.
- Each group member must live in or close to the county or community they are working in.
- Each group member must be willing to commit to investing in learning opportunities and participating in courses, project development, and execution.
No. CAFO membership is not required to be part of the More Than Enough Fellowship. However, we ask that each person signing the MOU agree to the CAFO Statement of Faith and Deepest Commitments.
Yes. You are welcome to invite as many community members as you would like to all of the learning opportunities and courses at no cost. These additional students do not have to be added to the MOU unless you specifically request that we amend it.
Yes. An organization may be a part of more than one Fellowship application and award. However, it will not be possible for one person from one organization to be a member of two collaborations. If an organization operates in more than one county/community they should have different staff representations participate in different applications and group collaborations.
This is a matching funding program where each group will fundraise $5,000 and be awarded up to $8,000 in matching funding.
You will receive up to $3,000 when all members of your group have signed the MOU and each member has completed the Collaborative Health Assessment. This is intended to help kick-start your collaboration while you raise matching funds, build relationships, learn, and complete the Fellowship coursework.
During the Discovering Your Community Course your group will plan a shared project. You will receive up to $5,000 (matching your groups’ contribution) when it is time to launch that shared project together.
One member of the group will serve as the ‘fiscal agent’ and be responsible for receiving and tracking donations and matching funds on behalf of the group. If you are selected as a recipient the members of your group will need to agree on which financial account will be used.
We know that for some people who may have never raised funding for projects like this, the process can be intimidating. We have put some things in place to help you feel confident in your ability to do this!
Fundraising webinars and coaching will be available. Ultimately, we believe that if this project is from the Lord, He will provide for it, and we will do all we can to help you achieve this goal.