Olympia Brown and Max Kapp Award

Eligibility

Olympia Brown and Max Kapp Award, with an application deadline in April, offers numerous awards of $2500 each. Restricted to those with financial need.

Description

The Olympia Brown and Max Kapp Award is made to a ministerial student who, in addition to meeting the requirements for general financial aid, chooses to submit as part of their general financial application a paper, sermon, or other special project on some aspect of Universalism. Entries are evaluated by an outside reader. The Ministerial Credentialing Office has limited scholarship funds available to students enrolled in a Masters of Divinity degree program leading to fellowship as a Unitarian Universalist (UU) minister. Candidate status is required. Applicants for financial aid are automatically considered for scholarships and no additional material is required, except where noted. In addition, priority is given to those grantees that have demonstrated outstanding ministerial ability secondarily to students with the greatest financial need, especially persons of color. Grantees will be primarily citizens of the United States and Canada, and if they continue to excel in both academic and social performance may be eligible for additional scholarships. Please have a Unitarian Universalist minister in full fellowship (not a faculty member from your theological school) and your faculty advisor or other faculty member (where you are currently a student) fill out a recommendation letter form. If the applicant is no longer a student, they must have an advisor or faculty member from their seminary submit the recommendation form. Please visit the scholarship's website or contact the Unitarian Universalist Association for more information.