People of God in Southern Ohio,
The 2026 grant application is open for Lawrence Home Association Grants benefiting clergy daughters and minority women.
The Lawrence Home Association, founded in 1896, under the will of philanthropist Eleanor Earshaw, was started to “provide a Christian home for self-supporting young women of limited means, the most important aim being to help them elevate their standard of life.” To this day, the Lawrence Home Association’s minority women and clergy daughter’s grants provide educational opportunities for women in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. The grants are reviewed and determined by a board composed of eight women appointed by the bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio.
On average up to eight grants are made to minority women and five to clergy daughters to support studies in post-secondary education. Annually up to three grants are made to nonprofit agencies whose mission is to serve women of limited means and help move them out of poverty and abuse (those agencies are pre-selected to apply).
Funding for the Lawrence Home Association Grants comes from the interest on the Earnshaw Bequest and the William Cooper Procter Fund. On average $95,000 is available to allocate to minority women, clergy daughters and non-profit agencies.
The grant applications are open on our website and are due March 27, 2026 April 10, 2026.
Yours in Christ,
Deborah Allsop
Chair, Lawrence Home Association Granting Committee
Member, St. Simon of Cyrene, Lincoln Heights
Additional members of the Lawrence Home & Clergy Daughters Granting Committee:
Diane Ebbs – Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati
Jamie Fetz – Church of the Epiphany, Urbana
Ericka Hall – St. Philip, Columbus
Barbara Hudson-Banner – St. Margaret’s, Trotwood
Katrina Mundy – St. Andrew’s, Evanston
Dorothy Powell – All Saints, Pleasant Ridge
Margo Rapp – St. Barnabas, Montgomery
Sarah Beegle – Staff Liaison
