Katie Cannon Scholarship Grant

Katie Cannon Scholarship Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Presbyterian Mission Agency
Amount: Up to US $3,000
Last Updated: March 07, 2025

Summary

The Katie Cannon Scholarship honors Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, a pioneering figure in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This scholarship aims to empower Presbyterian women of color, clergywomen, and college women by providing financial assistance for leadership development events and educational opportunities. It promotes spiritual growth and mission involvement within the church, ensuring that women are equipped for greater service and leadership roles. This fund is part of the Women's Ministry Fund at the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

Overview

Who We Are For over four centuries, Presbyterians have been responding to the call of Jesus Christ, taking the gospel into the world and bearing witness to Christ’s saving love to the ends of the earth. Today the Holy Spirit is still on the move, calling us to share in what God is doing in the world. Shaped by its Reformed theology, history, and representational form of leadership, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) faithfully works to serve Christ in the world through new and existing communities of faith, hope, love, and witness. Katie Cannon Scholarship The Katie Cannon Scholarship honors the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, a pioneer and legend in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This scholarship supports Presbyterian women of color, clergywomen, college women, and other women with opportunities for leadership and spiritual development and mission opportunities in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The scholarship, named in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, a pioneer and legend in the PC(USA), provides financial assistance to qualifying women for expenses for a leadership development event in the United States. This fund will also provide scholarships for young women to attend college, as well as event scholarships for women to develop leadership gifts and be equipped for even greater service in the PC(USA). The scholarship, the Women’s Ministry Fund (E049991), is a fund of Racial Equity & Women’s Intercultural Ministries at the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Supports:Presbyterian women of colorClergywomenCollege womenand other women