Capital Giving
The case for Trinity’s Advancing Our Vision capital campaign (2007-2011) called for the establishment of permanently restricted endowments to further the School’s mission with regard to socio-economic diversity and to impact our ability to attract and retain quality educators. In addition to providing funds for future land purchases, the campaign also allowed the School to partner with Mecklenburg County Parks & Recreation, the Charlotte Housing Authority and the City of Charlotte to reopen Alexander Street Park. To this end, we are pleased to report the following results:
As of September 30, 2011
Pledges: $6,519,232
Pledge Balance: $1,215,709
Endowment Standings
Market Value of Trinity Endowments: $3.6M
Endowment Highlights for 2011-12
• 65 percent of Trinity’s professional development budget (established as a result of gifts made to the Advancing Our Vision campaign) will be met through endowment funds. This equates to more than 40 professional development opportunities for our faculty and staff.
• Our tuition assistance endowment (also established as result of AOV gifts) will supply 8.27 percent of our tuition assistance budget, making it possible for 10 children to attend Trinity who might not have had this opportunity otherwise.
Alexander Street Park
The reopening of Alexander Street Park, just minutes from Trinity’s campus, has meant that our tennis and soccer teams now have a home court/field on which to play. Students are able to remain in class a bit longer, constructing even more knowledge, than before when they dismissed early in order to travel to all of their matches and games.
Children – from our youngest to our oldest – enjoy walks to and exercise in the Park. Everyone needs a change of scenery and our students simply love the playground and wide open space that the soccer field offers.
Play is not the only thing we do at Alexander Street Park. As many of you who have helped us on our service days know, our students and teachers know how to roll up their sleeves, spread mulch, trim brush and remove debris and weeds from the Park and Little Sugar Creek.
In preparation for their middle school trip in May, sixth-grade scientists discuss the path that Little Sugar Creek takes as it makes its way to the Atlantic Ocean. The Baptist Assembly where our students stay while on this trip is at the very point where the Cape Fear River dumps into the Atlantic, so keeping the creek clean means our Atlantic Ocean will be cleaner.
Science teacher Margaret Rudisill uses Little Sugar Creek during the water unit in seventh-grade to measure and record temperature, pH levels, dissolved oxygen and turbidity. Students also search for organisms that indicate the healthfulness of the stream.
Question about your pledge, please contact Vanessa Shelton Stolen in Trinity’s Advancement and Communications office by calling 704. 358. 8101, x264.
