Top photo caption: A Mount Carmel Guild volunteer assists a client with selecting food choices. The Guild was one of three agencies in the Diocese to be awarded a grant from the 2025 Bishop Ahr Endowment Fund. Monitor file photo
Applications are now being accepted for a single $10,000 grant from the Bishop George W. Ahr Endowment Fund. The grant is available to any parish, office, apostolate or ministry within the Diocese of Trenton attempting to provide services for the needy and vulnerable.
Named for the seventh Bishop of the Diocese, the fund yields approximately $10,000 in interest annually, which is customarily distributed among service organizations and parishes for special projects. This year, however, the grant committee will select just one recipient for the full amount, for a project that will have maximum impact.
Grant recipients for previous years included Mount Carmel Guild, Trenton; Collier Youth Center, Wickatunk, and Mercy Center, Asbury Park, as well as several St. Vincent de Paul parish conferences.
Applicants must provide the name of their intended project, its purpose and goal, the length of the project from start to finish, who the project will impact and how its success will be measured. Following the project’s completion, grant winners will be asked to provide a self-evaluation on how the funds were used and goals met.
Applications may be obtained by contacting Grace Magee at the Chancery & Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Trenton: gmagee@dioceseoftrenton.org or by visiting: dioceseoftrenton.org/bishop-ahr-endowment-fund.
All completed applications must be postmarked no later than June 1 or emailed as a PDF to gmagee@dioceseoftrenton.org by 4:00 p.m. Monday, June 1.