Making an Application for Funds from The DCI Fund and others

If you are a pastor or leader who is looking for funds for a church based program or project we recommend that you study these pages very carefully before applying to the MS Foundation.

If you are a student looking for funds to continue higher education then we recommend that you study these pages very carefully.

If you are looking for capital to open a Banking for the Poor or a Micro-credit scheme for your area then please study this page very carefully and apply to one of the funding agencies on the list given at the end of the page.

If you are looking for Bibles we recommend that you study these pages very carefully and contact the office of the organisation. You will find more possibilities on this page.

If you are known to our own DCI movement, or are a leader, student or graduate of a DCI Schools of Mission then you may apply to our own DCI Fund for a small grant, loan or 50/50 partnership up to $1000 for one project at a time in the following categories:

1. Development of DCI Schools of Mission or similar training centres,
after the first graduation has taken place.
2. Helping young people follow the call of God to the lost and the poor.
3. Taking the gospel to people on the Joshua Unreached List.
4. Innovative mission of all kinds like Sports Championships.
5. Medical and other mercy projects for the lost and the poor.
6. Emergency, life or death issues in illness or following an accident,
or natural disaster.

We regret that we cannot accept applications for the following as these are the responsibility of the local people or church:

    Requests to provide personal income, businesses, support,
  salaries or monthly expenses for the personal benefit
    of the applicant.

    Building programs, conventions, or the purchase of gifts,
  cars, motor-bikes, computers, scanners, cameras and copiers.

    Click here to read: Why is this ?

The four basic criteria we employ to evaluate any application are:

1. Is the applicant in good relationship with us ? *
2. Is the applicant a good and truthful communicator ?
3. Can the applicant give evidence of proven integrity ?
4. Is the applicant competent to run the project ?

* Our first guiding principle is that sponsorship only ever follows relationship and friendship. Relationship begins through communication and working together, which leads to a two-way friendship and a growing mutual trust, which may then be followed by sponsorship if this is required to complete an agreed project. Click here to see how to begin a relationship with us, and when you have begun a project, write and tell us. You must build a relationship with us before asking about money.

Our second guiding principle is that the DCI Fund does not provide "hand-outs" or aid, instead we consider "hand-ups" - that is giving a helping hand to pull people upwards into long-term solutions for their needs and opportunities. For example we will not buy chairs for a School of Mission or church but we will buy tools and initial materials to provide employment for a man or woman who can make chairs for the School and to sell in the market place. Before you ask for a gift of pounds consider asking for a plantation that will generate money.

Before you think about making any application from this page please understand our requirements and procedures and be prepared to follow them with great patience. Our problem is that if we do not know you personally then we have to proceed with great caution. We do not want to refuse any genuine application but please try to understand that we have a very serious responsibility to ensure that funds from our supporters do not fall into the wrong hands or are used for wrong purposes.

The following is the only way
to approach the DCI Fund.

Please carefully read the introduction again and apply ONLY if you qualify. If you do not qualify please do not go any further as we will not be able to help you and you will be disqualified from making another application.

If you do qualify then please send us an initial enquiry in a maximum of TEN LINES IN ENGLISH through this secure page only. You will not be able to attach any files or photos.

1. Tell us who you are, your age and where you live.

2. Tell us how we know you. Are you are a leader, staff member, student or graduate of a School of Mission, church or project that we know ?

3. Give us a brief description of your proposed project and the cost, which must fit into one of the priority categories given above. Please bear in mind that a first application must be for one project only and have a maximum value of US $1000 and you are advised to apply for much less.

If you do not answer these three questions we will not be able to help you. Please do not tell us any more than this. We will reply to let you know if we may be able to consider a full application or not, and if we have the funds available. If we can help you we will send you a full application form.

You must allow a minimum of one month for your application to be processed and if we have questions or if we have to check facts and references then the process may take up to three months, although we will work as quickly as possible.

Since 1985 the DCI Fund has helped to provide buildings, books, camels, childcare, cycles, computers, clothes, cows, farms, films, fish, food, goats, jobs, medicines, micro-credit schemes, travel to unreached peoples, plantations to provide food to give and to sell, seeds, schools, shops to provide funds to bless the poor, spectacles, sports tournaments, tools, training, travel, water, wheelchairs, workshops and wells to many men and women in the developing world.

Would you like to see some of our photos?
Click to see our Picasa Albums from around the world.
Choose one and then click Slideshow to see the display.

Click here for Schools of Mission around the world
Click here for Banking for the Poor projects
Click here for projects to help orphans and the poor
Click here to see some of the people in the DCI family

This page is dated March18th, 2010 and replaces all previous pages.