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SACREDSACRED PLACESPLACES THE MAGAZINE OF PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES • SPRING 2007 RestoringRestoring aa ChicagoChicago Landmark:Landmark: AA QuinnQuinn ChapelChapel SuccessSuccess StoryStory www.sacredplaces.org Sacred Places • Spring 2007 from the Contents Executive Director 4 Update on Partners You have to be there. You have to be present for the New Dollars/New Partners Success Story last training day in a New Dollars/New Partners project to Texas Regional Office Update fully appreciate the high energy, bold thinking and Staff News confident goal-setting that is shown by each participating In Memoriam congregation. Those that had lost confidence and hope Thank You to New Dollars/New Partners over the sustainability of their buildings experience Architects renewal and a new focus from New Dollars. After almost a Philadelphia Regional Fund Update full year of hard work, congregations demonstrate an Philadelphia Fund Success Story enthusiasm and excitement that is palpable. Over the 13 News Clearinghouse following months, most move ahead with new community partnerships and community-wide capital fundraising, which would have been difficult 14 Funding Brief: Understanding for them to imagine only a year or two earlier! Planned Giving Practices and Naturally, we ask ourselves how Partners can sustain and uphold this Opportunities level of energy after New Dollars is over. There are simple things we can do, such as maintaining our listserv for each New Dollars class, enabling The Thomas Phelan Legacy Society congregations, sponsors, and Partners to stay in communication. We have 16 Professional Alliance Spotlight also instituted a fifth wrap-up session that gives congregations another opportunity to meet and compare notes a few months after the last 18 Professional Alliance Directory formal training day. What else can we do to develop a more permanent stream of services to older sacred places? In Pennsylvania and Texas, Partners has About Partners supplemented New Dollars with a wide range of services, including grants for capital projects. In other parts of the nation, some New Dollars Partners for Sacred Places is the only national, sponsors are so committed to this work and possess such good leadership, non-sectarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to that we see an opportunity to encourage long-term outreach. This was the sound stewardship and active community use of the case recently in Minneapolis, where we have worked with the Synod America’s older religious properties. Founded in of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to offer New Dollars to ten 1989 by religious, historic preservation and congregations. The synod staff, lead by Bishop Craig Johnson and David philanthropic leaders, Partners provides assistance Wangaard, bishop’s associate, provided a high level of support to to the people who care for sacred places and participating churches, and both clergy and lay leaders showed a strong promotes a greater understanding of how these commitment to improving property stewardship and connecting with places sustain communities. their communities in new ways. As New Dollars neared its end in Minneapolis, Partners conferred with PARTNERS’ PROGRAMS the synod about the possibility of getting civic leaders interested in a AND SERVICES INCLUDE: longer-term approach. Serendipitously, Robert Lilligren, a respected ❖ Training. New Dollars/New Partners for Your Minneapolis leader and vice president of city council, expressed his Sacred Place is an intensive program that gives concern about the future of historic churches, and asked if Bishop congregations with older buildings the skills Johnson would convene city leaders to discuss ways to organize a and resources to broaden their base of support. response. Representatives of city council and the mayor’s office gathered, ❖ Workshops and Conferences. Partners’ staff along with staff from the city planning and economic development speaks on a variety of topics at national and department, in the synod’s offices. Partners made a presentation on how regional conferences throughout the country. the public sector is playing a larger role in preserving sacred places across ❖ Publications. Some of Partners’ books include: the nation, and a discussion followed regarding how the city could help. • Your Sacred Place Is a Community Asset: The bishop pledged to call together his denominational counterparts to A Tool Kit to Attract New Resources and Partners affirm the universality of this issue, and Councilman Lilligren offered to • The Complete Guide to Capital Campaigns for meet with the bishop to plan follow-up. Historic Churches and Synagogues In a parallel development, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation in ❖ Information Clearinghouse. This web-based Chicago is helping Partners explore the feasibility of a new program that resource provides information related to the care would serve sacred places there. Serious interest is also bubbling up in and use of older sacred places. Michigan and upper New England. The potential result of all this (www.sacredplaces.org/information_clearinghouse.html) ferment: a second wave of local programs and regional offices for ❖ Advocacy Initiatives. Partners works with civic Partners. (The first wave in the 1980s and 1990s generated several leaders, funders and policymakers, urging them programs still operating in New York, New Mexico, Cleveland, Boston, to adopt policies and practices that provide new Pittsburgh and Denver). resources to older religious properties. It looks like New Dollars is providing some of the energy necessary to propel this second wave. As I was saying, you have to be there. COVER PHOTO: THE REVEREND JAMES MOODY (FAR RIGHT) LEADS THE QUINN CHAPEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH CONGREGATION ON A WALKATHON TO A. Robert Jaeger, Executive Director KICK OFF THE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE QUINN CHAPEL AME CHURCH SACRED PLACES • SPRING 2007 3 Update on Partners Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church Partners for New Dollars/New Partners Success Story Sacred Places 1700 Sansom Street CHAPEL AME CHURCH THE QUINN OF COURTESY 10th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 [email protected] www.sacredplaces.org 215/567-3234 BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Rev. Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. Chair The Rev. Dennis A. Andersen Douglas B. Bauer Charles B. Casper Louis R. Cohen William F. Delvac Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA Paul W. Edmondson The Rev. Dr. Thomas Frank Philip B. Hallen The Rev. Pierce W. Klemmt The Rev. R. Scott Sheldon Monica Taylor FOUNDING CO-DIRECTORS Diane Cohen A. Robert Jaeger STAFF A. Robert Jaeger, Executive Director Diane Cohen, Senior Director of Institutional Planning and Development Erin Coryell, Director, Philadelphia Regional Fund Roof restoration work at Quinn Chapel AME Church in Chicago. Monica L. Davis, Director of Communications Tuomi Joshua Forrest, Associate Director Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal The oldest African-American congregation Geoffrey Harden, Church stands on Wabash Avenue in Chicago, (c. 1844) in the City of Chicago recently turned Office Manager bridging the past and the future. “This isn’t only to Partners for Sacred Places for assistance in William J. D. Jordan, Director of Development African-American history, we are a significant piece raising the money to save the church. In 2006, Marie Malloy, of American history,” explains The Reverend James Partners joined with Landmarks Illinois to offer Director of Operations Moody. Pastor Moody’s church is an 1891 the New Dollars/New Partners for Your Sacred Place Rana Gidumal McNamara, Romanesque and Victorian Gothic building, training to an inter-faith group of congregations Director of Membership and Annual Giving partially designed by an African-American architect in Chicago(see list on next page), just as Pastor Sarah F. Peveler, and commissioned by an African-American Moody was learning about New Dollars/New Director of Training congregation. Since then, it has played a critical Partners from two other sources. He quickly Ruth Ann Rugg, role in the city’s history. Frederick Douglass, Susan signed on. Director, Texas Regional Office Elizabeth Terry, B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Moody explains that New Dollars/New Partners Senior Project Manager Luther King, Jr. are among the legends who have interested him because it stresses two important INTERN spoken from its pulpit. Quinn was not only a stop principles. The first is being able to articulate a Alexander Fidrych on the Underground Railroad, but also instituted a religious building’s value to the community. “It is SACRED PLACES PRODUCTION distribution center within the Underground important as a pastor to tell folks it’s more than Julia Prymak, Designer Railroad, gathering food, money and clothing for the building, it’s the services we provide. It’s (Pryme Design) the men, women and children on their journey important not only to people we’re trying to get north. This historic church has begun an ambitious money from, but other organizations. The fundraising campaign to restore its facilities. accountants appreciate that as well.” Using 4 SACRED PLACES • SPRING 2007 Update on Partners Partners’ pubic value software, Moody learned his encouraging, and the giving has reflected that.” In fiscal year congregation contributed over half a million dollars of value 2006, Quinn’s congregation of 250 gave $570,000. According to to the ministries it housed. Reverend Moody, $130,000 of that $575,000 came from grants The second value of the program is in helping a and gifts,