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The offerings listed below are organized according to the focus or purpose of the assistance provided. The following categories are used:
The Religion division of the Lilly Endowment provides as many as 100 grants of up to $45,000 each directly to Christian congregations for the support of a renewal program for their pastor. In this way, the Lilly Endowment seeks to strengthen congregations by providing an opportunity for pastors to step away briefly from the persistent obligations of daily parish life and to engage in a period of renewal and reflection.
The Louisville Institute provides pastoral leaders with sustained periods of time for reflective engagement with their life and work and issues related to contemporary religious leadership. Grants of $10,000 or $15,000 for sabbaticals of eight or twelve weeks respectively will be awarded.
Dissertation Fellowship Program
The Louisville Institute's Dissertation Fellowship program supports the final year of Ph.D. or Th.D. dissertation writing for students engaged in research pertaining to American religion, especially on Christian faith and life, pastoral leadership, and religious institutions. Up to seven fellowships of $18,000 each will be awarded.
The Religion Newswriters Association provides scholarships to journalists interested in taking courses in religion or spirituality at any accredited college, university or seminary. Schlarships cover expenses including tuition, registration fees and books.
The Fund for Theological Education offers a fellowship program that provides support and guidance to entering Master of Divinity students who embody the highest intellectual and spiritual qualities essential for Christian leadership as pastors, educators and citizens. Applicants must be entering their first year of a Master of Divinity program at an Association of Theological Schools accredited seminary.
PLSE is an initiative coordinated through the Fund for Theological Education to help congregations identify and nurture faithful young people who have gifts for leadership and ministry. Currently, PLSE partners with four denominations: the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church and the United Church of Christ.
The Fund for Theological Education offers a fellowship program providing support and enhancement to African American Ph.D. or Th.D. students in their final year of dissertation work in religious or theological studies. Applicants must be in the final writing stage of their graduate work in religious or theological studies.
The Fund for Theological Education supports a fellowship program that supplies support and enhancement to the education of African American students entering a Ph.D. or Th.D. program in religious or theological studies. Applicants must be entering their first year of an accredited graduate program and strongly considering a career in seminary teaching and research.
The Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant Program for Minority Scholars assists junior, non-tenured religion scholars of color to complete a major research project on an issue in American Christianity related to the priorities of the Louisville Institute: Christian faith and life, pastoral leadership, and religious institutions. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.
The North American Doctoral Fellows Program from the Fund for Theological Education is open to talented doctoral students traditionally underrepresented in the fields of religion or theology who already are enrolled in programs leading to the Ph.D. or Th.D. degree and nearing the end of their studies. Fellowships provide assistance to students who otherwise might not have the financial resources to complete their degree programs. In addition to a stipend, FTE offers networking support, maintaining regular contact and acting as an advocate for them in the profession.
The Louisville Institute’s Christian Faith and Life Grant Program supports research projects by academics and pastors designed to make more accessible to religious believers the themes of Christian faith in relation to the realities of their contemporary lives. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.
The Louisville Institute’s General Grant Program occasionally supports a limited number of individual and collaborative projects by academics, pastors, or other religious leaders on current program priorities of the Louisville Institute: Christian faith and life, religious institutions, and pastoral leadership. By means of these grants, the Institute seeks to encourage pastors and academics to renew their vocational commitments and to pursue the distinctive kinds of research, writing, convening, and collaboration that promise to be most helpful to the church.
The Lilly Theological Research Grants program is designed to enhance the skill and capacity of faculty in member institutions of the Association of Theological Schools as theological researchers and scholars. It supports research efforts of faculty, particularly at junior and non-tenured levels in order to nurture the development of their scholarship; seeks to enlarge the pool of faculty actively engaged as theological researchers; works to increase knowledge about grant seeking and the craft of theological research; and nurtures the habit of research as an ongoing aspect of scholarly life.
The Louisville Institute’s Pastoral Leadership Grant Program supports research projects by academics and pastors on the nature and challenge of contemporary pastoral leadership, with special attention to the conditions of contemporary Christian ministry and the character of pastoral excellence. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.
The Louisville Institute’s Religious Institutions Grant Program supports research projects by academics and pastors designed to encourage reflection on the theological, historical, and sociological nature of and challenges to religious organizations and institutions in the contemporary world. The grant amount requested should not exceed $40,000.
The Louisville Institute’s Summer Stipend Program offers grants to academics and pastors engaged in summer research projects pertaining to American Christianity, especially those related to the priorities of the Louisville Institute: Christian faith and life, pastoral leadership, and religious institutions. Up to seven grants of $9,000 each will be awarded.
The Wabash Center offers grants up to $20,000 for Individual and Group projects that focus on teaching and learning in theology and religion. These grants are intended for shorter term projects with more limited scope that will, nonetheless, permit creative initiatives to enhance teaching and learning.
The Wabash Center is able to make Small Project grants of up to $2,500 to support special meetings and small projects that focus on teaching and learning in theology and religion.
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