Endowment

In Partnership with Monument of Faith Church

As part of our commitment to long-term sustainability, we are working to establish a community endowment that would be held with Monument of Faith Church—an institution that has faithfully served the Grant Street neighborhood since 1933. An endowment is a permanent pool of funds that is invested over time, with the interest used to support ongoing work. We see this as a way to root financial resources in the neighborhood itself, ensuring that the work of care, preservation, and community development is not dependent on short-term funding cycles, but is sustained by a stable and locally anchored source of support.

Institutions like Duke University have long relied on endowments to fund initiatives over extended periods of time. In a similar way, we are seeking to build an endowment that will support the social service and community-based work emerging from this historically Black neighborhood—held within and stewarded by Monument of Faith Church. This model allows us to invest in the future of the community now, so that generations to come can continue this work with consistency, dignity, and self-determination, without relying solely on outside philanthropy or shifting donor priorities.

Goal: $500K

Sign outside Parliament of Faith Church displaying service times and message, with church building, parking lot, and blue sky in the background.
A diverse group of people standing and sitting in a church, with a man speaking at a pulpit and others clapping or raising their hands, indicating a religious gathering or service.