Post-Secondary Education Funds
PYM members and their families enrolled in post-secondary educational programs may apply to the Quaker Education Granting Group.
☞ n.b. – PYM members who are Swarthmore College students may also apply for the Jonathan Taylor Swarthmore Scholarship, administered by Stony Run Meeting of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Contact Cindy Maier at cynthiamaier13@gmail.com or Nick Fessenden at nicholasfessenden@comcast.net. Their application deadline is June 1st, annually.
How To Apply
To apply, download and complete an application form [PDF]. The application form must be completed and submitted with the following additional documentation by May 1st. Be sure to include:
- Proof of enrollment (Enrollment letter, Invoice or payment receipt for tuition, Course schedule, or Transcript)
- Personal statement detailing your course of study and vocational plans (1 page)
- Letter or email from your Meeting Clerk affirming membership (not required for prior year recipients)
Welcome, but not required:
- Letter of recommendation
Submit the completed application form and required documentation by email to grants@pym.org by the May 1st deadline with Post Secondary in the subject line.
Applications, if complete, will be considered in mid-May. Applicants are responsible for submitting complete applications with all attachments. Notification letters will be emailed by July 1 to all applicants. Grant checks, paid directly to individual recipients, are paid by ACH in mid-July.
Funds
The Mary Jeanes Fund was established in 1896 by the Jeanes family estate “to aid deserving young Friends to procure an education, also to assist them to obtain the necessary course to prepare them for teaching by loaning money without interest, to be returned by them as soon as able.” The Fund was minuted in 2013 to be entirely a grant fund.
The Anne Townsend Grant Fund was established in 1896 by the estate of Anne P. Townsend to provide grants to PYM Friends securing an education in the field of “domestic, industrial or practical arts, such as that as may be obtained at Drexel Institute, preference being given to such persons as live in suburban and rural communities, my intention being that such income shall not be applied for the maintenance or support of Friends Schools as now established.”
