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Giving Opportunities
Seabury Fund
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Capital Giving
Capital Gifts are typically those which help fund new construction, renovate
or remodel existing facilities or purchase major rquipment and furnishings.
Seabury welcomes such gifts to meet its present needs, which include upgrading
student housing, providing chapel furnishings, ehlping purchase art work
for the seminary and other important structural and landscaping opportunities.
Seabury is in the final stages of preparation for a major capital campaign which will also indentify critical needs for endowment funds to support student scholarships and for faculty chairs. For information contact Marc Young at 1-800-275-8235 ext. 41.
Endowment Giving
Gifts to Seabury's endowment fund are vitally important tothe seminary's
long term ability to sustain the high quality of its programs and its
capacity for leading edge innovation.
Gifts of all sizes for endowment purposes are welcome. Many donors take advantage of tax savings in their contributions for endowment with cash gifts, gifts through wills or estate plans, insurance policies, securities, real estate, retirement funds, trusts and other financial intruments. (See Lydia Hibbard Society.)
Endowment funds held by educational insititutions are typically those funds where the principal or corpus is held permanently with earnings designated for use as directed by the donor. For example, a $1,000 gift to the general scholarship endowment fund would be permanently held and invested by Seabury with the earnings used each year to support student scholarships.
The Samuel Seabury SocietyNamed for the first Episcopal bishop in the United States, The Samuel Seabury Society was founded to assist Seabury to provide quality theological education and spiritual formation for future leaders of the church.
Donors include alumni/ae, friends, parishes, corporations and foundations. The seminary is deeply grateful to those who contribute so much to maintain its standard of excellence
The levels of membership are:
Patron: $10,000 and up
Benefactor: $5,000 to $9,999
Member: $1,000 to $4,999
Associate: $500 to $999
Friend: up to $500
The Lydia Hibbard Society recognizes those gifts that will add most significantly to the seminary's endowment. Membership in the Lydia Hibbard Society is open to all alumni/ae and friends of Seabury who have named the seminary in their wills or in their estate planning and have notified the seminary of their plans. Membership begins at $5000.
The Trustees of the Seminary have authorized the establishment of the Lydia Hibbard Society to honor those friends of the Seminary who wish to provide for Seabury through their estate plans or through certain outright gifts.
- Wills - included Seabury in their wills;
- Annuities - given a gift in the form of a charitable gift annuity or a deferred payment charitable gift annuity;
- Pooled fund - given a gift to the National Church Pooled Income Fund for the benefit of the Seminary;
- Insurance - designated Seabury Theological Seminary as the owner of a life insurance policy;
- Retirement Plans - designated Seabury as the beneficiary of a retirement plan;
- Trusts - established a trust, either revocable or irrevocable, that names Seabury-Western as a beneficiary;
- Life Estates - conveyed real property to Seabury while retaining a life estate;
- Endowed Funds - established an endowed scholarship or
other endowed fund for the benefit of Seabury.