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Strengthening the Church in New York to Raise a Generation of Leaders
The Trinity Grants Program's goal in Metropolitan New York is to join with our congregation, staff, and partners to raise up a generation of leaders who are healthy, empathetic, and strong.
Social transformation requires a generation-long commitment. Three centuries' work – from reconciliation in South Africa to rebuilding the South Bronx – has taught Trinity that when people discover they can make a difference and take action, the world around them changes as well.
Trinity Church's greatest resource is people-congregation, staff, and partners in New York and around the world. Transformational relationships begin with organizing partners and then can extend by supporting these relationships with direct funding, investment of program-related resources, technical assistance, and opportunities for collaboration.
Program Emphases
Our goal is to strengthen the Episcopal Church to raise a generation of leaders who are healthy, productive, and empathetic by (1) providing a true education to youth and (2) forging the economic opportunities that can support them as adults.
Providing Equal Access to a True Education.
Strategy: To strengthen public schools through grassroots involvement by Episcopal faith communities and their allies.
Total suggested commitment: $2 million in grants over four years
Supporting Jobs & Economic Opportunity.
Strategy: To identify effective ways the Episcopal Church can increase access to living wage jobs and economic opportunity for young people between the ages of 16 and 24, especially in the seven New York City neighborhoods that provide more than fifty-percent of inmates at New York State prisons.
Total suggested commitment: $1 million in grants over four years/ $2 million in program-related investments.
Trinity Transformational Fellows: Raising Up the Next Generation of Leaders
This initiative provides $25,000 to outstanding lay and clergy leaders so that they may renew and strengthen their work in social transformation. As the program enters its seventh year, congregation and staff will work with recipients from prior years to identify how the Fellowship can best support raising up the next generation of leaders, in New York and around the world.
The dedication of Nehemiah Houses, a project of South Bronx Churches, building affordable housing in the South Bronx.