Our Grants Program

Annual Grants Program

In an effort to provide support for the field of Catholic youth ministry, Catholic Youth Foundation USA awards financial grants to parish, diocesan, and national initiatives. Grant projects are activities, events, strategies, or campaigns designed to train youth and coordinators of youth ministry, to develop new approaches to comprehensive youth ministry, and to respond to the needs of today's young church.

Grant Criteria

Catholic Youth Foundation USA serves the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM) and makes grants annually for activities, events, strategies, or campaigns designed to train youth ministers, reach out to youth in crisis or at risk, develop multicultural and minority youth inclusion and involvement, evangelization, projects promoting peace and justice, and other worthy youth ministry projects consistent with Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry (USCCB). Priority is given to innovative and research-based initiatives. Grants are not available to individuals.

Applying for a Grant

The Foundation's Board of Directors revises and approves the Annual Grants Program
application process each spring. All applications must be submitted using the current
application format.

PLEASE NOTE

Because it is the mission of CYFUSA to support youth ministry programs in the United States of America, we regret that we CAN NOT consider applications either originating from, or for projects in, countries outside the USA.