Pew Charitable Trusts. Religion Program.

Grants to religious organizations have always been central to the mission of the Pew Charitable Trusts. This reflects J. Howard Pew's and the Pew family's commitment to faith-based organizations. The first grant was made to the American Bible Society, in 1949. Martin Paul Trimble served as a program officer in the Religion Program in the 1980s. Joel A. Carpenter was made director of the program in 1988 until 1996. The program's current director is Luis E. Lugo.

The Religion Program has focused its grantmaking in such areas as: Cross-Cultural Christian Partnership, Evangelical and Religious Scholarship, Global Christianity, Religion and Public Life and Urban and Hispanic Ministry.

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