Endowment Grants Information

​For questions, email Grants Coordinator Izzy Winn at missions@st-margarets.org.

​St. Margaret’s Church is blessed to have an endowment that generates income for providing grants to local, regional and global programs for specific use compatible with the mission priorities of the congregation. Thanks to the vision and foresight of the vestry and parishioners upon receipt of a generous unrestricted bequest from Edwin and Zoe Hall in 1995, with the vestry’s approval, the St. Margaret’s Grants Committee, made up of dedicated parishioners, will issue new grants this program year for the 19th time.
 
Our mission priorities are:

• Endow the poor and hungry with the means to feed, shelter and clothe themselves

           - particular consideration for opportunities that help others sustain themselves

• Restore the ill to health and heal the broken

           - consideration includes prevention of human brokenness and healing the broken

• Promote, preserve and sustain environmental health and good practices

           - primary considerations are sanitation, human health, sustainability and reduction of destructive and dangerous environments

• Improve access to educational opportunities;

          - consideration includes efforts that empower the powerless and enfranchise the disenfranchised                                                       
Past grants have ranged from $1,000 to $40,000 although there is no ceiling amount or set number of grants as long as the awards fit within the annual endowment grants fund allowed by the Missions Commission. Each year the total amount of giving varies but has been as high as $145,000 and as low as $83,000. Applicants do not need to be faith-based or church-affiliated.
 
Guidelines including the timetable for the application process and the Grant Application form can be downloaded. To learn more about applying or getting involved with the process contact our Grants Administrator, Izzy Winn, directly and immediately at missions@st-margarets.org or by calling 410-974-0200 x30.

2018 Grant Awardees: 
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The St. Margaret's Vestry has unanimously accepted the recommendations of the St. Margaret’s Grants Committee for 2018 grants. 

The Committee started this grant season with 30 grant applications requesting a total of $449,370. Of that initial list, the Committee requested that 13 applicants be interviewed for further consideration. Our grant liaisons began this process in February.

After four weeks of interviews and careful consideration of the transformative work these vastly differing groups are doing, the Committee is very pleased to announce its recommendation (accepted and approved by the Vestry (4/17/2018) of $95,000 allocated for Endowment Grants to fund the finalists as listed below:
  

• $5,100 - To Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee Haiti Outreach Ministry to build a playground at St. Marc’s Episcopal School, Jeannette, Haiti 
• $2,000 - To Annapolis Immigration Justice Network for Legal Referrals
• $10,000 - To Intersection of Change (Baltimore) for Strength to Love II Farm employing and training ex-convicts (as well as supplying locally grown produce in an urban “food desert”) located in the Sandtown-Winchester and Upton communities 
• $6,000 - To Middleham and St. Peter’s Parish of the Diocese of Maryland (Episcopal) to help fund a school nurse in Leogane Haiti, a model project administered by the Episcopal University Nursing School
• $4,100 - To Sarah’s House (Anne Arundel County) for new kitchen appliances
• $7,500 - To Mission of Mercy to support a new Mobile Dental Clinic and their expanded Maryland free dental program 
• $10,000 - To Somos Amigos Medical Mission for medical and dental specialist referrals and diagnostic testing for clinic’s patients in the Dominican Republic 
• $17,000 - To Acts 4 Youth (Baltimore) allowing expansion of their program to an additional school, serving 100-200 youths
• $10,000 - To Seeds 4 Success (Annapolis) to launch the Eastport Boys Club, similar to the very successful Eastport Girls Club.
• $4,300 -To The ARC Central Chesapeake Region’s Parent Support Group and “Sibshops” program for 5-11 yr old siblings of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• $6,000 - To Box of Rain (Annapolis) to cover the cost of a year-long high school “Charting Careers" program for 12 students
• $5,000 - To Muhabura Integrated Polytechnic College of the Shiyira Diocese of the Anglican Church (Rwanda) for the new water filtration system on campus
• $8,000 - To Siempre Unidos for Food Support supplementing medical care for 25 impoverished HIV positive patients in Honduras. ​