Giving ~ Designating Your Gift ~ Capital Projects
Capital Projects
Beginning in 1999, General Seminary has undertaken a comprehensive restoration of Chelsea Square. New slate shingles have replaced failing asphalt shingles on six of the Seminary's 17 historic buildings. The crowning cupolas on Sherred and Hoffman Halls gleam with restored copper, visible from up and down the avenues. The Desmond Tutu Education Center will be fashioned from three buildings on Tenth Avenue. In Chelsea 2,3,4, a gut renovation has created six beautiful duplex apartments, three of which renting at market rates, will pay for the work. Plans are now in development to restore the Seminary's oldest structure, the West Building, to its former glory.
The Seminary currently spends almost 30% of its annual operating budget on facilities maintenance. Gifts to the capital component of the Leaders for the Church campaign will help to address these endowment-draining expenditures made annually for the Close.
The campaign carries a range of naming opportunities to honor or memorialize someone for whom the Seminary is of special importance. Capital pledges may be satisfied over a three-, four- or five-year payment period.
Do you wish to make an online gift or pledge to capital projects today?
For further information, please contact
Bruce E. Smith
Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Alumni/ae & Church Relations
212-243-5150, ext 286
smith@gts.edu
