Giving
As a friend of Trinity Senior Services, you are connected to a caring community with a tradition of expressing gratitude through generosity. We invite you to continue this tradition and below you can learn about opportunities to participate.
Questions? Contact Caitlin Elftman at 414-220-3213 or celftman@milwaukeecatholichome.org
Ongoing Support
For a nonprofit organization, an institutional budget cannot cover the expenses related to providing truly exceptional quality. The generosity of donors like you has enabled us to continue our tradition of excellence and service for more than 100 years. Areas of ongoing support include the Employee Appreciation fund, the Pastoral Care fund and the Benevolent Care fund.
Special Projects
We are committed to maintaining vibrant and uplifting places to live and to continue to stand out among our competitors. This means reinvesting in the campus common spaces. Over the years, many improvements and upgrades have been made possible through the charitable gifts of residents, their families and members of the larger community who value our tradition of excellence.
Leaving a Legacy
Those who have been impacted by our extraordinary care and supportive community often choose to express their gratitude through a legacy gift to Trinity Senior Services. Many residents make a charitable gift commitment through their estate planning.
More recently, we have also been blessed by those residents who have decided to donate all or part of their refundable entrance fee back to the community. This is a generous and creative way to make a lasting gift from which others can benefit.
Memorial donations are another meaningful way to give. You can make a gift in honor of a loved one or friend, or consider including Trinity Senior Services as a beneficiary of gifts that might be made in your memory.
Endowment Giving
You can also create a lasting legacy by contributing to one of our three endowments. Endowments provide a steady, ongoing source of funding for several of our most vital programs. A gift designated to one of these endowments is truly a gift for the future.
Our Endowments Include
The Franz and Virginia Bidinger Endowment for the Fine Arts
This endowment, established by the Bidinger family, ensures meaningful therapeutic and recreational fine arts programming at Milwaukee Catholic Home.
The Benevolence Fund Endowment
This endowment was established to allow the Trinity Senior Services community to assist residents experiencing unexpected financial hardship, allowing them to remain at home in Milwaukee Catholic Home or Trinity Woods and to receive assistance in their time of need.
The Chaplaincy Endowment
The new Chaplaincy endowment provides ongoing funding for spiritual and pastoral care programming and staffing, ensuring that our Catholic identity remains strong as our organization grows and changes.
How to Give
Trinity Senior Services accepts many gifts in many forms. Cash and appreciated securities are most often used to make gifts, however, there are also occasions when appreciated property is given as well. Planned gift instruments such as gift annuities, remainder trusts and other more sophisticated vehicles of giving can be used as well. Residents interested in making a gift of all or part of their entrance fee may do so by completing a simple form.
We also accept online donations.