Giving ~ Designating Your Gift

Designating Your Gift

Annual Fund
Support for the annual fund has been called the "first and best gift" one can make to the Seminary. Annual fund gifts are applied immediately to daily operations at GTS and directly affect those things we care about most--compensating our distinguished faculty, making tuition affordable for talented seminarians of diverse financial backgrounds, maintaining the beautiful and historic facilities resources of the Close. General encourages the offering of early pledges, with payments made at the donor’s convenience before the end of the Seminary’s fiscal year on June 30. Recognition of all donors is made in the fall Stewardship issue of Seminary News.

Capital Projects
Since 1999, General Seminary has undertaken the mose comprehensive restoration of Chelsea Square since the nineteenth century. 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. 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.

Did you know the Seminary currently spends three times more than other seminaries on facilities maintenance? Gifts to the capital component of the Leaders for the Church campaign will help to address the 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.

Endowment

Establishing the permanence of faculty chairs and scholarship aid is the role of the endowment fund. Professionally managed, with income spent according to a Board of Trustees-approved rate, the endowment ensures that there will always be a General Seminary. As with the capital redevelopment fund, naming opportunities exist to recognize loved ones or other friends of GTS, and donors may wish to consider a multi-year payment period. Minimum contribution levels may apply for named funds for restricted use within the endowment.

Program Support

Do you wish to make an online gift today?

For further information, please contact

Bruce E. Smith
Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Alumni/ae Relations
212-243-5150, ext 286
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