MTS Scholarship Funds

Annual Giving Scholarship

For $12,500, a donor can create an annual giving scholarship that provides general aid to help support academically qualified Seminary students. An annual giving scholarship is an investment in our students' call to serve and supports their preparation for effective leadership and service in congregational, chaplaincy, and other ministries, as well as teaching and spiritual formation and direction.

Why establish an annual giving scholarship?

“We continue to support the Seminary now through the Seminary Scholarship Fund as lifetime giving society members. Teaching as an adjunct professor and [my wife] Deborah’s participation as an auditor of classes add value to our lives and constantly remind us of the high quality of students Moravian Seminary is sending out to give leadership to the church, their communities, and the world.”

_{—The Rev. Dr. Walter H. Wagner}

Endowed Scholarship

Endowed scholarship funds are part of Moravian Theological Seminary's total endowment fund to take advantage of being part of a large pool of investments. Each endowment fund is accounted for as a separate fund within the larger endowment.

By establishing an endowed scholarship fund, you will directly impact Seminary students for countless future generations. The fund will become a permanent memorial and ongoing investment in the future of the Seminary and our students.

• You may establish an unrestricted endowed scholarship fund with a minimum gift of $25,000. The fund can be established through a single gift or with payments over two to five years.
• You may establish a restricted endowed scholarship fund with a minimum gift of $50,000. The fund can be established through a single gift or with payments over two to five years. With a restricted fund, you may specify a preference for the type of student(s) who will benefit from the scholarship award (i.e., students with a particular major, from a specific geographic area, etc.)
• You may name an endowed scholarship fund for yourself, a member of your family, or in memory/honor of an individual or group (i.e., the Class of 1966 Scholarship Fund).
• Additional gifts to an endowed scholarship fund may be made by any person at any time.
• Donors with established funds receive information on the student who receives the scholarship award each year.
• The student is informed of the name of the donor, unless the donor wishes to remain anonymous.
• Both the student and donor are invited to attend events celebrating  scholarship recipients and donors who have established scholarships.

Why establish an endowed scholarship fund?

“[My husband] David and I talked about adding to his father’s endowed scholarship at the Seminary with the gifts of stock his father had left us. When David died, I knew I wanted to do that immediately, and add David’s name to the scholarship. They were united in life in their love for theological education; in their deaths they are united in passing on that love to the next generation of theological students.”

_{—Doris J. Schattschneider, PhD}