The AAM Endowment Grant Program
Purpose
The AAM Endowment has a grant program providing financial assistance for projects or programs supporting the mission of AAM: to “elevate, stimulate, and support music and the allied arts in the liturgy of the Episcopal Church and throughout the Anglican Communion.”
Eligibility
While applicants for grants are not required to be members of AAM, all proposals must support the mission of AAM and its role in the Episcopal Church. In keeping with that mission, applications for the sole benefit of other denominations, and churches in those denominations, will not be considered.
Additionally, only projects that have a discernible benefit beyond a local parish or church community will be considered. Ongoing operating expenses will not be funded—including, but not limited to, staff singers, instrumentalists, sheet music, and instrument purchase or maintenance.
Successful applications will be for projects with long-term or lasting benefits.
Amount of Grant & Stipulations
Monies available for grant requests may vary in amount from year to year. Grants will be, in most cases, in the range of $500 to $2,000. A written report is required upon completion of the project.
Application Deadlines
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February 1 – General Grant Applications
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September 1 – General Grant Applications
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November 1 – The Raymond Glover Grant for Episcopal Liturgical Music
Processing the Application
Each application is reviewed by the Chair of the Grants Committee. If no additional information is needed for processing, the applicant is sent confirmation of receipt of the application which is then submitted to each of the committee members for evaluation. If additional information is required, the applicant will be contacted regarding the specific data necessary to complete the application.
Presentation of Grant
When a grant is approved, the check is mailed directly to the applicant’s sponsoring agency.
Record of Grant Recipients
2025
Calvary Episcopal Church, Richmond, TX - To begin a chorister program for high school youth from the local high schools.
Church of the Good Shepherd, Bryn Mawr, PA - For new surplices for the parish's new chorister program
Grace Episcopal Cathedral, Topeka, KS - To help commission a new hymn for the 50th anniversary of the destruction of Grace Cathedral by arsonists.
Mid-Atlantic Episcopal School Association - To commission an Evening Service aimed at being accessible to high school choirs
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Newburyport, MA - In support of a new chorister program
Women’s Sacred Music Project – In support of the Women in Hymnody project
WXXI - To support the national broadcast of With Heart and Voice on National Public Radio
2024
All Saints' Episcopal Church, Richmond, VA - To hire a voice teacher for the post-Covid rebuilding of the chorister program
Elevate Vocal Arts - In support of the 2024 Bent But not Broken conference on music of the African Diaspora
Episcopal at Penn State - In support of their Choral Evensong Scholars
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music - To provide two scholarships to the summer Schola Cantorum program for high school and college singers
Mississippi Conference on Church Music and Liturgy - To hire a voice teacher for the 2024 conference.
St. John's Episcopal Church, Savannah, GA - To support a new chorister program
2023
St. James Cathedral, Chicago, IL - In support of their Voces 8 community workshop
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Tallahassee, FL - In support of their community Choir School
Women’s Sacred Music Project - In support of the Resounding Voices hymnal supplement
The Peter R. Hallock Institute - In support of the Hallock Centennial Concert
St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, PA - To commission a new choral mass by David Hurd for the church’s 175th anniversary
2022
Rosemont Community Retreat Center - In support of the renovation of the retreat space
Inver Hills Community College - Andrew Martin’s study of Antiguan Church Steelbands
2021
The Choral School of Delaware - Bent, but Not Broken Conference
A Great Host of Composers - A three-year lectionary cycle database
The Street, a composition for harp (Parker Ramsay) composed by Nico Muhly with libretto by Alice Goodman
2020
AAM’s 2020 Vision Survey
National Federation of State High School Associations – COVID-19 study of choral singing
2019
St. James Cathedral, Chicago — Gerre Hancock Internship
2022 AAM Richmond Commissions
Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque — Reuter Organ Festival
2018
Trinity Cathedral, Columbia SC — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
Church of the Holy Apostles Choir School, Wynnewood, PA — to help establish chorister program
2019 Boston AAM Conference — for past Gerre Hancock Fellowship Interns to perform during conference
2017
American Sarum Conference, Erie PA
Washington National Cathedral — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
Trinity Cathedral, Columbia SC — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
AAM — General Convention 2018
2016
Washington National Cathedral — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
Stamford, Connecticut AAM Conference
AAM — 50-Year History
American Sarum Conference, Erie PA
2015
Tampa, Florida AAM Conference
Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
2014
Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston — Gerre Hancock Fellowship
2013
Washington, DC AAM Conference
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