The EDGAR RICHARDS SCHOLAR AWARD: $1,000
awarded annually by MARANATHA: Riversiders for LGBTQ Concerns
The Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive (between 120th and 122nd Streets)
New York, New York 10027
Criteria for Eligibility
(1) Current high school or college students who will be attending college fulltime in the 2011-2012 academic year;
(2) Self-identified as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and/or Queer;
(3) Willing to attend the Pride Breakfast at Riverside Church, Sunday,
June 26, 2011, 9:00-10:30 a.m., when the award check will be presented. The winner (and, if desired, a guest) will be Maranatha’s guest at the Breakfast.
Travel and lodging funds are not available, but appropriate overnight accommodation at a Maranatha member’s home, and Sunday morning transportation to the church, can be arranged for a winner who does not live
nearby .
Membership or activity in a church or other faith-based organization is an asset, but not a requirement.
Riverside is a progressive, international, interracial, interdenominational church
affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the American Baptist Church.
Founded in 1979, Maranatha is the oldest continuously operating, church-
affiliated, LGBTQ organization in the United States.
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