Grant Opportunities

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All grants from the Presbytery of the Pacific are funded four times a year. For the following grants, contact the presbytery office regarding deadlines.

Grants from the Presbytery of the Pacific

Lulu Stevens Grant

The Lulu Stevens Grant fund was a bequest given by a woman named Lulu Stevens in 1994 to inspire, equip, and engage congregations of the Presbytery of the Pacific seeking to implement new outreach ministries that serve economically disadvantaged people.

Lulu Stevens grants are approximately $5,000 and are received by the Mission Interpretation and Promotion Committee continuously throughout the year. It is a grant process of the Presbytery that takes approximately three months to approve. For more info: heidi@pacificpresbytery.org

URCF Grant

UCRF is for churches of the Pacific Presbytery seeking to enhance Christ’s mission through new and innovative approaches to congregational development.

Christ at the Door Grant

This fund’s goal is to grow new leaders for the church of the future and to teach and model mission as the church’s calling. This grant program will end when available funds are depleted. Contact Rev. Linda Culbertson at lculbertson@pacificpresbytery.org or 310.670.5076 for more details.

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Self-Development of People (SDOP) Grant

The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) is prepared to establish partnerships with groups in the United States who:

• are oppressed by poverty and social systems,
• want to take charge of their own lives,
• have organized or are organizing to do something about their own conditions,
• have decided that what they are going to do will produce long-term changes in their lives or communities,
• utilize some combination of the SDOP core strategies to promote justice, build solidarity, advance human dignity, advocate for economic equity,
• will control the programs they own and will benefit from them directly.

Partnerships are initiated by applications to the Self-Development of People Committee and are evaluated using Self-Development’s funding criteria and overarching SDOP program measures. 

SDOP grants are approximately $5000, and Pacific Presbytery’s SDOP committee receives applications until October 1st of each calendar year. For more info: heidi@pacificpresbytery.org

Synod Grant Opportunities

Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC-SY)

Would your church like to start a speaker series on human rights violations? Does your church have a vision for an environmental project and need seed money to begin? The Synod of Southern California and Hawai’i’s Committee on Cross-Presbytery Ministries (CCPM), through its task force on Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation (JPIC), provides grant funds to individuals and groups involved in peacemaking activities defined by the General Assembly Peacemaking Program: peacemaking in families, communities and the earth, studies on global issues, support for human rights and economic justice.

For more info: heidi@pacificpresbytery.org

PCUSA Grant Opportunities