Together We Rise Up
Your support powers this campaign and helps us continue the work that matters.
83% funded
$14.8M / $18M
RISE UP & SUPPORT SUSTAINING GENEROSITY
Your support fuels our mission to sustain generosity for generations

The Annual Fund is the engine that keeps CTS moving forward. While restricted gifts and grants are vital, they can only go so far — they fund specific programs, specific initiatives, and specific outcomes. The Annual Fund fills the gaps, providing the flexible, unrestricted resources that allow CTS to respond quickly to emerging needs, invest in new opportunities, and ensure that every pillar of our mission has what it needs to thrive.

With your support, we can go further, faster.

A gift to the Annual Fund is an expression of confidence in CTS and its mission. A belief that the work CTS does matters, that it is worth sustaining, and that the best is still yet to come. With your support, we can keep pushing forward on every front, ensuring that every pillar of our mission has what it needs to thrive.

Raised$14.8M
Goal$18M
It’s Time to Rise Up!
Form Strong Spiritual Leaders

Fueling the scholarships, resources, and support systems that prepare the next generation of bold, compassionate, faith-rooted leaders to rise up and serve the communities that need them most.

Support Faith & Action

We have a higher calling to find solutions to systemic poverty and economic mobility by bringing together people with unique perspectives and life experiences to impact change in our Center for Faith & Action.

Expand Access to Essential Care

Ensuring that the doors of our Counseling Center, our academic programs, and our community initiatives remain open and accessible to everyone who needs them, regardless of their ability to pay.

Rise Up for Sustaining Generosity

Every pillar of CTS's mission — faithful leadership, equity and justice, healing and wholeness — depends on a foundation of sustained, flexible support. Your gift to the Annual Fund ensures that CTS can keep showing up, keep leading, and keep serving for generations to come. Every gift, at every level, moves us forward.

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This campaign gives us an opportunity to help people who are experiencing a range of injustices and creates a better place, a better world.
Dr. Courtney Buggs
Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Director of the PhD Program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric