History and Accomplishments

ECF has been responding to the changing needs of the Episcopal Church for 60 years. As in the past, we will continue to meet new challenges, evolve, and adapt.

In addition to our wide array of leadership and financial resource development programs, products, and services, ECF has been involved with the following initiatives since its founding in 1949:

• Established the Revolving (Church Building) Loan Fund


• Helped establish the Alban Institute


• Provided support for the creation of the Church Deployment Office


• Sponsored the Pusey Report on Theological Education


• Started the Doctoral Fellows Program (now the Fellowship Partners Progra
  
• Seeded Listening Hearts and Journey to Adulthood, two major formation programs for adults and children


• Supported and nurtured Godly Play, a program that nurtures the spiritual life of children


• Involved in strengthening campus ministries through Ministry on the Frontier and CampuSource


• Helped establish a new bishop search process


• Created the Cornerstone Project to explore issues of clergy and congregational health, wholeness and holiness


• Helped create the College for Bishops


• Helped sponsor the Episcopal Network for Stewarship (TENS)


• Helped support the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes (CEEP)


• Sponsored and managed the Fresh Start Program


• Provided assistance in the development of the CREDO wellness program


• Sponsored the Zacchaeus Project on Episcopal identity and vocation


• Began the Emmaus Project to explore new patterns of Episcopal leadership


• Sponsored The Search for Coherence


• Helped develop the Clergy Leadership Project now operated by Trinity Parish (Wall Street)


• Served a Secretariat for the Global Anglicanism Project (GAP)

• Building Leadership: Vital congregations live out their mission when their leaders empower everyone
  
  
• Growing Financial Capacity: Conserve and grow the gifts that have been entrusted to your parish
  
  
• Forging Partnerships: When communities of faith come together, their service to the Church and to the world has more impact