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Rules:
Roles:
The Reliant Point Person is either a Reliant employee/associate (preferred) or if the partner does not have employees with Reliant, a vetted individual from the church/ministry assigned to run point as the main contact for the church/project fund. The Reliant Point Person
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receives and
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distributes monies
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Approving an Affiliated Fundraiser
The following criteria must be met before approving an Affiliated Fundraiser
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on behalf of the church/ministry to any Designated Grantees. All church/project funds are required to have an individual assigned as the Reliant Point Person.
The Authorized Signer(s) is the individual(s) who is authorized to approve transfers, reimbursements, grants, and other payments from the church/project fund. The names of the Authorized Signers may be found on the Accounts Payable Signing Authority List.
The Designated Grantee(s) is a foreign national receiving monies distributed from the church/project fund.
Designated Grantee
Foreign nationals may receive monies from a church/project fund as a Designated Grantee under the conditions that the foreign national:
- Work alongside an existing Reliant partnership.
- Be identified and vouched for by a Reliant worker or church/ministry partner.
- Be vetted using the OFAC Watchlist Verification.
- Able to receive monies through the officially registered-in-country church or ministry or a Reliant employee/associate.
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Reliant will no longer send payments straight to a foreign national (direct deposited into their bank account). Exceptions remain for those very few already grandfathered in. |
Reliant Point Person
Determining Grant Payments
The church/ministry partnership determines if the Designated Grantee is receiving monthly payments or one-time payments through grants and that the Designated Grantee is in agreement on those amounts and frequency.
The program team will work with the church/ministry partner to determine a monthly amount that may be sent for support. It must be clearly communicated that Reliant cannot hire them or have the appearance that they are being paid for hours worked, even as a contractor.
- How the Designated Grantee expects to receive financial support through the project fund may determine if the Designated Grantee can be approved.
Reliant prefers that funds be sent to an officially registered-in-country church or ministry that would then pay out funds to a foreign national.
Reliant can send funds directly to a trusted Reliant employee or associate through the project fund, who then distributes funds to a foreign national.
(This is still being debated if we should close the door entirely or if there is another option...) Reliant will no longer send payments straight to a foreign national (direct deposited into their bank account) as a paid contractor. Exceptions remain for those very few already grandfathered in.
Assessment for all Affiliated Project Fundraisers is completed through an AF application that is reviewed and approved by the Program Team.
Accounting finalizes vetting for Designated Grantees using the OFAC Watchlist Verification.
Affiliated Project Fundraisers raising funds for both Reliant and another organization must complete a dual solicitation agreement (Dual Solicitation for APFs)
- Affiliated Project Fundraisers raising funds must complete training on how to raise support on behalf of Reliant and then be officially deputized.
- The individual receiving funds on behalf of The individual receiving funds (usually the Reliant Point Person) on behalf of the Designated Grantee agrees to complete training on grants and expense submissions and agrees to send a grant report every 6 months for the monthly payments received.
- Agree to (when living outside U.S. soil) inform Reliant if they come to the U.S. for any extended amount of time, because Reliant cannot send them payment if they are on U.S. soil.
Once the above criteria have been met, and the Designated Grantee has been officially deputizedapproved, then any associated project funds (whose sole purpose was for Designated Grantee funding) can be officially created.
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If giving a grant to a registered church, do we need to know the names of the people that they are giving to? designated grantees
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GRANT STANDARD
The approval for the creation of a church/project fund confirms that Reliant is in agreement to pay out any amount of grant expenses incurred for this particular project purpose and no further approvals for increased grant amounts above the projected approved amount are needed.
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