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Grants offered through the Virginia Conference and others

Church & Society Grants

Learn more about grants offered by the General Board of Church & Society.

Common Table: Conference Benevolence Grants

Conference Benevolence Grants are for connectional ministries beyond the local level to cover administrative expenses. They are funded through the Conference Benevolence apportionment from local churches. Applications should be submitted to the Office of Connectional Ministries.
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Common Table: Special and Sustaining Grants

SPECIAL PROGRAM GRANTS (formerly the Commission on Ethnic Local Church Concerns grants and the Common Table “Healing the Hurts” grants) are designed for programs outside of normal conference and local church funding processes. They are intended to provide funding for the first three years of innovative programs of tangible and caring outreach that is beyond a local church’s current financial resources.
SUSTAINING PROGRAM GRANTS are designed for programs outside of normal conference and local church funding processes. They are intended to provide funding for the sustaining of innovative programs of tangible and caring outreach that is beyond a local church’s current financial resources. They are for churches of all ethnic groups and should help the church requesting the funding to relate to the ethnic groups within its community.
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Disabilities

The Virginia conference offers Program and Accessibility Grants. Learn more…

Oldham Little Church Foundation – Facility Completion Grants

Oldham Little Church Foundation is a private foundation which funded grants in excess of $1,037,000 to small, evangelical Protestant churches throughout the United States in 2020. Since our founding in 1949, we have provided over 16,900 Facility Completion Grants totaling over $47 million for church renovations, repairs, and new construction projects. Learn more…

Virginia United Methodist Foundation Grants (including Hanna Grant and Micah Grant)

Learn more about grants offered by the Virginia United Methodist Foundation.

United Methodist Communications Grants

Leonard M. Perryman Communications Scholarship for Racial Ethnic Minorities
This $2,500 scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate pursuing the study of religion journalism or mass communications. Learn more…

Stoody-West Fellowship
This $6000 grant will assist a United Methodist student in their post-graduate study at an accredited U.S. college or university who intends on pursuing a career in religious journalism. Learn more…

New church start grants. Learn more…

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