Link: http://www.chicagopresbytery.org/self-development-of-people-2/ (sent via Shareaholic) ----
The Presbytery of Chicago’s Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) enters into partnership with people who: are oppressed by poverty or by social systems;
have organized to do something about their own conditions;
have decided what they are going to do, in order to produce direct, long-term benefits;
will control the projects that they initiate and the funds for those projects.
The Committee normally provides small grants ($500 to $5,000). Its work grows out of the Civil Rights movement and a desire to support groups who are empowering themselves. The Committee’s work is based on a belief that these groups—not other people—know what they need to overcome the conditions of poverty, injustice and oppression. In addition to the Chicago Presbytery’s SDOP Committee, there is also a national, PCUSA Committee, which funds larger projects.
The Presbytery of Chicago’s Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) enters into partnership with people who: are oppressed by poverty or by social systems;
have organized to do something about their own conditions;
have decided what they are going to do, in order to produce direct, long-term benefits;
will control the projects that they initiate and the funds for those projects.
The Committee normally provides small grants ($500 to $5,000). Its work grows out of the Civil Rights movement and a desire to support groups who are empowering themselves. The Committee’s work is based on a belief that these groups—not other people—know what they need to overcome the conditions of poverty, injustice and oppression. In addition to the Chicago Presbytery’s SDOP Committee, there is also a national, PCUSA Committee, which funds larger projects.
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