Deadline: 3-May-21
The Ambassador’s Fund for Catholic Education is accepting applications for its Grant Program to encourage proposals for programmatic initiatives that spur fresh thinking and prompt new action in Catholic education and ministry.
The Ambassador’s Fund for Catholic Education will also approach appropriate organizations with funding conversations to explore emerging concepts that will strengthen Catholic education or affect Catholic youth. It will also invite funding discussions on programs that could raise the knowledge of their Catholic faith and make it a more meaningful part of their lives.
They aim to advance Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia through innovative programs and projects initiated by Catholic schools, colleges, parishes, and religious and other Catholic-focused organizations. They provide financial support and assistance to Catholic schools operating within the archdiocese, organizations and institutions supporting Catholic education in the archdiocese, and programs designed to broaden and deepen Catholicism within the archdiocese.
What Ambassador’s Fund for Catholic Education does not fund?
The Ambassador’s Fund for Catholic Education does not fund:
- Individuals, scholarships, financial aid, faculty or staff graduate degree tuitions
- Non-program-related capital projects, improvements, or renovations
- Capital campaigns
- General and annual operating funds and other forms of annual budget relief
- Reimbursable(s) on prior expenses, i.e., prior to July 1 of the year requested for funding
- Special fundraising events benefitting individual schools or organizations
- Endowment funds
- Debt reduction
- Political organizations, parties, or causes
- Foundations, with very limited exceptions
- Stand-alone conferences, with very limited exceptions
- Technology acquisition, replacement, or upgrades (with very limited exceptions)
- Non-program-related staff positions
Eligibility Criteria
Grants are awarded on a one-time, one-year basis. On occasion, a two-year grant will be considered and awarded, but the grantee must provide detailed information in the interim report on results-to-date and the projected second-year project plan for the second year of funding to be approved:
- Catholic colleges: Yes, for initiatives that strengthen student understanding and practice of their Catholic faith, for example, through a series of Scripture studies, compelling theme-based retreats, rigorous examination of Catholic intellectual history, or other programs that increase appreciation of Church teaching and of its thinkers, authors, and rich insights.
- Secular institutions: Yes, support is restricted to Newman Club programming at the Philadelphia-area public and private non-Catholic institutions and is generally overseen by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Office for Catechetical Formation.
- Catholic Private and independent schools located in the archdiocese of Philadelphia are eligible for funding.
- Individual Archdiocese of Philadelphia schools are also eligible for funding.
For more information, visit https://ambassadorsfund.org/guidelines/