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Message from the ELCA Foundation Addresses Recent Economic Concerns
The ELCA Foundation’s (Foundation) purpose is to generate transformational gifts for ministry and manage endowment assets entrusted to it by congregations, synods, and other organizations of the church. The Foundation is committed to ensure that assets are managed in a way that supports our purpose. Current market conditions and recent financial developments are of concern to our donors and participants, so we take this opportunity to communicate our perspectives on current events... [more]
ELCA Mission Investment Fund Announces Challenge Gift to Fund for Leaders
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Fund for Leaders announced a $1.5 million challenge gift from the Mission Investment Fund (MIF) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The MIF gift is the single largest cash donation ever given to the Fund for Leaders. It challenges the Fund to raise $3 million over a three-year period to receive the gift. The resulting endowment will provide scholarship assistance to eligible students enrolled in a qualified mission developer program at any of the eight ELCA seminaries... [more]
ELCA Fund for Leaders Awards 32 Scholarships, Announces Gift Challenge
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Thirty-two first-year students attending the eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) received full- or partial-tuition scholarships for the 2007-2008 academic year through the ELCA Fund for Leaders in Mission. The Fund honored three people who have provided substantial financial gifts and donated time to support the Fund, and a new matching gift challenge to double the Fund's endowment was announced... [more]
ELCA Names Rossing Physics Scholarship Recipients
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Three students attending colleges and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) will receive Rossing Physics Scholarships for the 2007-08 academic year. Gifts from Dr. Thomas D. Rossing established the Rossing Fund for Physics Education Endowment in the ELCA Foundation... [more]
Paul N. Hanson Named Director of ELCA Fund for Leaders in Mission
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Paul N. Hanson, senior pastor at Ascension Lutheran Church, Brookings, S.D., will become director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Fund for Leaders in Mission April 2... [more]
ELCA Foundation, Development Services Leadership Transitioning
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The board of the trustees of the Foundation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected Cynthia J. Halverson as president-elect of the Foundation at a special meeting Sept. 14. In addition the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop, appointed Halverson concurrently to the role of executive director-elect for ELCA Development Services... [more]
ELCA Foundation Awards Fund to Children, Elderly Ministries
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Lutheran Services for the Elderly (LSE) Endowment Fund of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) awarded a total of $243,000 in 2007 to eight Lutheran organizations dedicated to ministries and services for and by the elderly. The Lutheran Services for Children Endowment Fund of the ELCA awarded a total of $260,256 to six Lutheran organizations dedicated to services to and for ministries with children... [more]
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