This area contains resources to help your organization stay up to date with legal issues pertaining to Faith-Based & Community Organization, IRS compliance as well as applying for 501c3.

These resources will help you build and develop a strong board of directors for your nonprofit organization.

These resources will help you build your organizations capacity, develop programs and establish partnerships. This area includes many excellent tools.

Helpful resources for funding and building your new sanctuary

This area contains resources to help your church with economic development in your community.

Valuable resources to help your organization utilize the Faith-Based Initiative

These resources will help you find and compete for both federal and private funding to help your organization impact the community. This area includes grant directories, samples, and applications.

These "How-to-Guides" are a great tool to help you learn best practices for your ministry.

This area contains downloadable local grant applications, that are stored on our server. Use this area to download and submit applications for local, federal and private grants as well as private foundations.  If you don't see your city or state on this list, please visit the "Local Grant Application" area of the members area.

This area contains the student outlines and power points from Urban Awareness USA live training events.

This area contains resources from our webnairs (PDF Files, power Point Presentations, Audio Files etc.)

Sample programs, toolkits and templates that you can use in your ministry (prisoner reentry, workforce development, AIDS/HIV, etc.)

The of this tool is provide a simple version of the Purpose Driven Church teaching in a portable format so that the message can reach the thousands of pastors who would never have the opportunity to attend a Purpose Driven Church Conference. To hear the audio recording of the workshop please visit the Urban Awareness USA Training Library.

Sample grant proposals that you can use when attempting to write your own grant proposals.