Spirit Recognition Award

Spirit Recognition Award Guidelines

THE FIVE COMMISSIONS 

1. The Commission on Justice for Women works to ensure the welfare of women and girls by encouraging their spiritual, intellectual, emotional, and economic well-being.

2.  The Commission on the Environment mobilizes the IHC and broader communities to participate in actions for environmental justice and climate protections.

3.  The Commission on Justice for Immigrant, Refugees, and Indigenous People works for justice for individuals including women with children and families through participating in border issues, detention visits, and demonstrations and other supportive activities.

4.  The Commission on Housing and Community for Unhoused People supports care and action for people who are unhoused and nurtures and supports partnerships responding to the needs of people who are unhoused and those at risk of losing their housing.

5.  The Commission on Anti-Racism as Spiritual Transformation works through prayer, study and active collaboration and partnership to promote the inherent dignity, worth and rights of all persons and continues to be denied by a culture and system of white supremacy. 

The Joint Commission supports NPOs whose work focuses on the goals and mission of more than one, if not all, Commissions.

Projects that are innovative, especially those that strategically change or improve current practices, are highly encouraged.

About The Immaculate Heart Community

From our roots as a Catholic canonical order of nuns, IHC has evolved into a vibrant intentional “community without walls.”  IHC members live all over the United States, Canada and England.  IHC is an inclusive community, non-denominational Christian organization which honors the traditions of all of the major faiths.  IHC is a faith-based nonprofit public benefit corporation.  

 Through its Commissions, IHC addresses critical issues of our times, including the Spirit Recognition Award Program which aims to strengthen and elevate the work of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) whose mission, vision and values align with IHC.   

• The Spirit Recognition Award Program focuses on the following areas:

• Promotion of the inherent dignity of all persons

• Promotion of justice for the marginalized, with preferential for the poor

• Protection of our common home and all of creation

• Responses to the “Signs of the Times” which are indicators of the social conditions that impact those at the margins

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

• An applicant must be US-based nonprofit organization with current 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, preferably located in California.

• Only one award is issued to any nonprofit per year.

• Only completed applications, with required attachments, will be reviewed and considered for award.

• Grant recipients will be required to submit data-based impact reports.

• All applicants must submit the application:

• Download the application. Complete the form and submit with required documents.

  • Email to: ihc-administration@ihworks.org.

OR

• Complete via submission box on this page.

• Documents submitted by email to ihc-administration@ihworks.org must include on the Subject line: IHC Spirit Award – name of nonprofit

For questions, please contact ihc-administration@ihworks.org.

We appreciate all participants in the Spirit Recognition Award program.