25-26 MDI Response Project Grant Application

The Missionary Discipleship Institute (MDI) is a collaboration between the Office for Catholic Schools, Maryknoll, and our 7^th grade teachers focused on forming seventh graders across the Archdiocese of Seattle into people for others. Students learn about the injustices affecting our local and global communities and our call as Catholics to address these areas through Catholic Social Teaching.

The three units of the Missionary Discipleship Institute curriculum framework: Encounter, Disturbance, and Response, allow students to build relationships with Christ through accompanying their neighbors on the margins. As the culminating project of the MDI experience, students develop and enact a service project responding to a community need that they are most passionate about as a class.

To help students learn how to work with community partners to extend the scope of their missionary discipleship, the St. Joseph Foundation has generously awarded the Office for Catholic Schools grants of up to $1,000 for each MDI school to leverage the impact of their projects. This critical funding allows students to apply the MDI framework to conduct meaningful mission work without cost being a limiting factor for schools and families.

MDI Teachers: The grant application is currently open. Please inform your principal that your class is applying for this grant and work with your students to complete the following grant request form by March 20, 2026.

Grant applicants will be notified of the grant status by April 1, 2026.

25-26 MDI Response Project Grant Request Application

School Name(Required)

Name of Staff Contact for MDI Response Project(Required)

Email Address(Required)

We have shared our response project plan with our principal.(Required)

Yes

We have invited our principal to participate in our response project and/or our MDI Day in the spring.(Required)

Yes

Briefly describe the encounter experience the class participated in for the MDI immersion day.(Required)

What injustice is being addressed through your response project?(Required)

Title of Response Project(Required)

What is the plan for your response project? Include a brief bullet-pointed summary of the plan here.(Required)

How has your learning this year led to this plan for your response project?(Required)

Please state the total amount of the grant request.(Required)

Please enter a number from 0 to 1000.

Please provide a general budget for your response project.(Required)

What will your response project look like if you don't receive funding?(Required)

Are there other sources of funding that you are planning to use or other sources of community support (coat drive, food drive etc.)?(Required)

Yes

Please describe your other funding sources or sources of community support and the amounts.(Required)

When will your response project be completed?(Required)

Is there anything else you would like us to know about your project?

MDI Teachers: Upon completion of your project, please work with your students to complete the following grant impact report by June 5, 2026.

All receipts must be emailed by the MDI teacher to connor.geraghty@seattlearch.org by June 5, 2026. Receipts received after June 5, 2026 will not be considered for reimbursement.