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Mission Real Estate Development

Trinity Church Wall Street seeks to help our partners in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion build financial sustainability for ministry through the creative development of assets. Trinity supports this work primarily through grants, training, and real estate advisory services for Anglican/Episcopal provinces, dioceses, and seminaries throughout Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.

U.S. Churches Use “Gift of Place” for Mission and Real Estate Development

Trinity Church Wall Street, in partnership with the CEEP Network, recently brought together leaders from the Episcopal Church in a virtual conference, "The Gift of Place: Developing Church Property for Financial Capacity." Learn more about how U.S.-based parishes are developing their properties to support ministry and serve the needs of their communities.

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