Grant Guidelines

As a charity dedicated specifically to the welfare of the Catholic Church itself, ACN's funding strategy is pastoral and religious in nature, i.e. Faith-related. Typical projects supported include:

• Formation of priests and religious
• Training of catechists and lay pastoral workers
• Means of transport for pastoral work
• Construction or renovation aid for churches and related pastoral buildings
• Media apostolate
• Bibles, catechisms and basic religious literature
• Pastoral programmes for specific target groups
• Existence aid for religious sisters
• Mass stipends for priests

We do not engage in the equally important humanitarian socio-charitable field that is the proper domain of many other Catholic charities and NGOs. Please save yourself and us unnecessary expenses: do not submit applications that are outside the scope of our work, such as:

• Humanitarian and socio-economic development
• Building schools and hospitals
• Private living, medical and schooling expenses
• Salaries
• Open-ended subsidies or recurrent costs
• Endowment funds
• Projects already completed
• Repaying debts
• Purchase of land