The ECD accepts contributions to all of these funds: The Second Century Fund is an annual appeal to encourage people to make larger gifts to the ECD for starting new missions, to strengthen or revive failing missions, and to fund workshops. Many Episcopal bishops contribute to this fund from their discretionary funds. The Morrill Fund is the general endowment fund of the ECD. It began in 1929 when a Mrs. Morrill made an $8000 bequest for work with deaf people. The ECD set up an endowment fund with the income to be used for the general operation of the ECD. Memorial gifts have been contributed to this fund over the years, including an unrestricted gift of $100,000 in memory of the Rev. Robert Fletcher of Alabama. Operating expenses of the ECD are partially supported by this fund. All of the officers and staff of the ECD are volunteers who are reimbursed for their expenses only. The Fleming Fund is used for scholarships, internships, training grants, and workshops. The Henry Winter Syle Fund is in memory of the first deaf priest to be ordained, the Rev. Henry Winter Syle. We ask each congregation affiliated with the ECD to give one percent of their annual income to the Syle Fund, to fund interpreter and note-taker services for deaf seminarians. The Little Red Church Ingathering is patterned on the United Thank Offering of the wider Episcopal Church, used for general support of operating expenses. Church Mission to Deaf People Fund is used primarily for Episcopal Deaf congregations in New York state. (It was funded by the proceeds of the sale of the Gallaudet Home for Aged Deaf People in Poughkeepsie, New York.) The Berg Fund was set up by Mary Ann Berg following the death of her husband, the Rev. Otto Berg, to be used for the planting of new churches for the deaf, reviving dormant churches for the deaf, and training lay people to take an effective role in churches for the deaf. |