Overview:
Macro Innovation Grant:
- Funding Range: $75,000 – $100,000
- Geared towards organizations with a well-established innovation process, showcasing iterative attempts at deploying practical solutions.
- Emphasis on illustrating and articulating the innovation process and quantifying end-user impact.
- Holds the potential to influence the broader missions landscape.
- Exclusive grants awarded to 1-2 Missio Nexus member minitries.
Expectations for Macro Grant Applicants:
- Primary Focus on Evangelism, Discipleship, and Church Planting.
- A well-thought-out and articulated process to discover the project’s uniqueness and viability.
- Clearly demonstrated steps in empathizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing the idea.
- Explicit presentation of end-user impact, emphasizing reaching the unreached and unengaged, along with clear end-user feedback demonstrating the need for the proposed solution.
- Innovation within the broader missions community.
- Potential for sharing the idea, concept, or results with other mission agencies for adaptation to their context.
- Originality is key – applications should not be a repackaging of existing projects or ideas.
- Recognition of winners with appropriate highlighting, mindful of security within the MNX community.
- Direct communication from the project manager is essential.
- Submission of a 3-5 minute video explanation by the project manager in addition to the application.
Note: All applicants are encouraged to thoroughly review and align their proposals with these expectations to enhance the overall strength of their grant applications. For an overview of innovation terminology and process click here:
DEADLINE: Friday March 1, 2024