Episcopal Homes Capital
Campaign Tops $6 Million Goal
by Paul Hagen
Episcopal Homes’ Celebrate the Journey capital campaign officially ended on September 30, 2006, but the books were kept open until the end of the year. The final tally of gifts received was $6,106,553 – 102% of the campaign’s $6 million goal.
480 donors, primarily members of our diocesan community, made gifts totaling $4,920,053. For many, their gifts represented the largest charitable contribution they had ever made. In addition, 18 foundations made grants totaling $1,186,500.
According to Campaign Coordinator Dan Panshin (left), “Our goal was to complete our continuum-of-care campus so that we could increase the variety and quantity of high-quality, moderate-cost housing for senior adults on this urban campus.”
Photo by Paul Hagen
Goal achieved! Funding from the capital campaign allowed Episcopal Homes to build Cornelia House and adjoining Coventry Chapel which opened in April, 2005. Campaign funds also made it possible to secure the additional resources needed to commence with $9 million in improvements that will keep Episcopal Church Home’s at the forefront of nursing and short-term rehab care for decades to come. The project is now under way and will be completed in the second half of 2008.
“This campaign has permitted us to build more and better homes, and it has significantly enhanced our ability to support each individual’s physical, social, and spiritual needs in accordance with our mission,” says Panshin. “We worked hard, we believed in what we were doing, we never gave up, and we got the job done.”
For more information about Episcopal Homes, visit www.ehomesmn.org. Members of the diocesan community are also invited to visit the Episcopal Homes campus in Saint Paul’s Midway at any time. Episcopal Homes does not receive any funding from the diocese and never has, so it is truly a mission of the people of the diocese. As the success of the capital campaign has shown, it is a mission that the diocesan community has wholeheartedly embraced.
Paul Hagen is communication director for Episcopal Homes
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