From here:
The Primate has appointed Suzanne Lawson consultant to General Synod’s Department of Philanthropy and Philanthropy Committee. Ms. Lawson, a former Executive Director of Program at General Synod, will help assess current philanthropic initiatives and refocus the work of philanthropy at a national level.
Corporate sponsorship didn’t work; Anglicans who tithe are scarcer than bishops who believe; no-one wants their money to be used to pay for the litigation happy ACoC lawyers – so what’s to be done?
Here’s an idea – although convincing Paul Allen that the ACoC won’t die before he does might be tricky:
The co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen has pledged the majority of his estimated US$13.5bn fortune to philanthropy following his death.
Allen set up his own charitable foundation, the Paul G Allen Family Foundation, 20 years ago.
Won’t do the ACoC any good, they will have to buy annual upgrades in order to keep accessing the donation.
Ostrich with its head burried in the sand. That is what the ACoC is fast becoming. It can’t even pay its own the bills any more. How many churches are closing this year? And they think that they can afford any philanthropy.
I am reminded of my old Parish of St. James the Apostle – Brampton. For decades it supported numerous groups in the area (i.e. woman’s shelter, youth drop in center, AA, The Bridge, Scouts, etc). But over the decades the congregation shruck to less than half of what it used to be, with a corresponding decrease in plate offerings. But the support of these other groups continues unabated, and the Vestry wonder why they don’t have enough money to pay the bills.