{"id":164,"date":"2025-03-31T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disabilityministries\/?p=164"},"modified":"2025-03-31T13:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:19:53","slug":"a-short-update-grants-and-advisory-team-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/disabilityministries\/a-short-update-grants-and-advisory-team-search\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Update: Grants and Advisory Team search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends of ELCA Disability Ministries!<\/p>\n<p>As we prepare to send out our next newsletter, I wanted to offer a short update on a couple of our bigger projects, which may impact many of you.<\/p>\n<p>We had an awesome showing of applicants for our new and open positions on our advisory team. We have some amazing leaders to connect with on our team and beyond. At the moment, we are still in discernment and will be having further conversations with some of our applicants. We will be in contact as soon as possible with all applicants, as we invite them to partner with us in other vital ways.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this has pushed us back a bit in preparing for our next round of grant applications. We still plan for spring but need more time to prepare and help this round to go smoothly and well. We are grateful for everyone&#8217;s patience in the meantime. You may contact me at disability.ministry@elca.org if you have any questions for now.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep tabs on this space and our other communications in the coming weeks as we move forward with new team members and the grant cycle for 2025. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>In Christ,<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Lisa Heffernan<\/p>\n<p>ELCA Disability Ministries coordinator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends of ELCA Disability Ministries! As we prepare to send out our next newsletter, I wanted to offer a short update on a couple of our bigger projects, which may impact many of you. 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