The Democracy Fund provided a grant in 2018 for a project focused on racial reconciliation, an issue which has been an ERLC assigned ministry area for decades.
The first grant from Democracy Fund ($50,000 received May 30, 2018) was used to fund a private convening of national leaders during the the MLK50 Conference in April 2018 and to produce a church curriculum “The Church and the Racial Divide: Finding Unity in the Race-Transcending Gospel” written by a Southern Baptist pastor and published by LifeWay Christian Resources. The grant also helped produce digital video resources on similar topics.
A second grant of $50,000 was received on December 23, 2019, but was returned in December 2021, when it had not been utilized. The ERLC has neither received nor solicited funds from the Democracy Fund since Brent Leatherwood became acting president in 2021.
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