Capital campaigns are carefully thought out, communicated and executed programs for funding facilities and programs that will strengthen and improve the congregation's or organization's mission capability. Fundraising 101 articulates the manner in which capital campaigns serve as a component of holistic development efforts.

The Episcopal Church Foundation provides this summary of a capital campaign:

Campaigns usually begin when leaders and members of the congregation recognize the need to either:

• Restore, renew or remodel facilities
• Construct new facilities
• Address programming or outreach concerns
• Build endowment to increase or ensure the continued ministry of the parish

The most common reasons for conducting a capital campaign are to build a new facility or to restore and remodel an existing building.

 

Rev. Michael Stephenson, Canon for Development, has prepared the following presentation on church growth and capital campaigns.