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Mission Real Estate Development

Trinity Church Wall Street seeks to empower parishes, dioceses, and seminaries throughout the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion to build sustainable financial capacity and enhance their community impact through the creative development of church property. Trinity supports this work primarily through training, grants, and real estate advisory support throughout the United States, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

The Gift of Place 2024 Virtual Conference

Developing Church Property for Financial Capacity & Social Impact
November 13-14, 2024, 12:30-5:30pm ET | Online via Zoom Webinar

The Gift of Place conference is an opportunity for in-depth engagement with the Mission Real Estate Development team of Trinity Church Wall Street and other participants, on your parish’s missional calling and how your real estate could be developed to both enhance your mission work and provide sustainable financial resources to support ministry.   
 
The virtual conference will explore how to use existing resources for mission-based projects and revenue growth through case studies and best practice takeaways. In two half-days of workshops, panels, and small-group discussions, we will deepen our understanding of financial sustainability through Mission Real Estate Development, learning from each other and from Trinity’s experience developing real estate to support ministry work. 

This free conference is sponsored by Trinity Church Wall Street and the Episcopal Parish Network.

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Feasibility studies

Mission Real Estate Development grants are available to support feasibility studies and construction/business projects that will generate income for ministry.

Professional assessments of multiple income-generation project opportunities that help the recipient diocese/institution to identify an investment that will suit their market, experience, and financing. 

Workshop from a Trinity-sponsored gathering of Anglican Church partners from Africa, which took place in Kumasi, Ghana, in June 2013.

To receive grant support from Trinity, proposed feasibility studies must:

Compare and contrast multiple investment opportunities

Produce a bankable document that can be used to secure developer or bank financing

Be conducted by independent, professional real estate consultants

Income-generation projects

Construction/business projects that will serve a primary purpose of generating income for the recipient diocese or institution.  The most common real estate business models pursued by our partners include office; retail; multifamily and student housing; hospitality and conferencing; and schools.

The Biharamulo retail stalls construction phase of the MRED grant.

Real Estate Advisory services

Trinity offers guidance in visioning and transaction structuring for potential real estate development projects, and in grant utilization priorities as well as general organizational and governance considerations for grant administration and project execution.

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To receive grant support from Trinity, proposed construction/business projects must have:

Completed feasibility study

Completed business plan

Some existing financial contributions to the project, in the form of local fundraising, loans, or other grant awards

Mission Real Estate Development Updates

Grants and Partners

Investing in Our People: Trinity Philanthropies in 2023

Over the past year, Trinity Church Wall Street has continued to increase our philanthropic support for work that advances equity and justice. We have nearly quadrupled our annual giving since 2019—from $16 million to $61 million—and in 2023 we distributed $37.7 million in grants to 205 organizations that advance our efforts to build organizational capacity, care for our community, and bring people together. 

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