The ELCA Domestic Hunger Program is part of the ELCA World Hunger Program, and both are coordinated by the Program Unit for Church in Society. The Community Development Services Program in the Program Unit for Church in Society provides administrative coordination for the ELCA domestic hunger grants process.
 

The domestic hunger grants process follows this cycle:
 

In addition to Church in Society staff serving under the Domestic Hunger Program, there are a number of representatives from other units in the ELCA churchwide offices who participate in the grants screening and allocation process, including the Program Units for Evangelical Outreach and Congregational Mission, Multicultural Ministries, and Women of the ELCA.

Over a dozen churchwide representatives from these units and one representative from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service in Baltimore, MD, form the grants committee, which meets in March to read and review each application carefully. The committee makes recommendations for funding in conjunction with each synod’s prioritization of grants submitted within the synod and its comments about each applicant. The committee agrees on which proposals to fund and the amount of each grant, and checks are then mailed to grant recipients in April.