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In an effort to assist religious congregations with older buildings, Landmarks
Preservation Council of Illinois (LPCI) is sponsoring a year-long fundraising
training program for ten Chicago-area congregations.
The four-part workshops will be run by the national organization Partners for
Sacred Places. The New Dollars/New Partners for Your Sacred Place is the
nation’s only program that provides practical tools to help congregations with
older and historic buildings broaden and diversify the circles of donors and
partners that can support the care and good community use of their sacred
places.
The Ten Congregations Participating In Chicagoland’s Inaugural Program
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Church of the Epiphany
201 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago
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First Baptist Congregational Church
1613 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago
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First Presbyterian Church
6400 S. Kimbark Avenue, Chicago
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Grace Episcopal Church
924 Lake Street, Oak Park
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Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral
1121 N. Leavitt, Chicago
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KAM Isaiah Israel
1100 E. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago
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People's Church of Chicago
941 W. Lawrence Ave., Chicago
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Quinn Chapel A.M.E Church
2401 S. Wabash Avenue, Chicago
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Riverside Presbyterian Church
116 Barrypoint Road, Riverside
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Third Unitarian Church
301 N. Mayfield Avenue, Chicago
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The congregations were selected following a three-month application process.
Priority was given for architecturally and historically significant structures.
The program is funded in part by LPCI’s Preservation Heritage Fund with
additional support from Partners’ Lilly Endowment Model Partnership Seed Grant
Program, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation, and Harris.
Since 1989 Partners for Sacred Places has helped congregations across the
country sustain and actively use their sacred places. Partners’ expertise is in
promoting and developing community-wide funding for historic religious
properties. Partners publishes The Complete Guide to Capital Campaigns for
Historic Churches and Synagogues and maintains the nation’s largest
clearinghouse of practical information on the development of capital funding for
houses of worship.
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Members of Grace Episcopal, Riverside
Presbyterian, & Holy Trinity Cathedral share a table for discussion groups.
Members of 1st Baptist Congregational, Peoples
Church, and KAM Isaiah Israel enjoy the program.
Lesley Gilmore (left, in jeans) of Gilmore
Franzen Architects leads a walk-thru of Grace.
John Gay of Quinn Chapel A.M.E. makes a
presentation to the group.
Several congregations show support for each
others projects.
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