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      • Scholars, clergy, church leaders, thinkers, artists, and writers who are seeking to discern and communicate the meaning of Christian identity and unity in a religiously and culturally diverse world are invited to apply for our residency programs.
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      • Each year, the Collegeville Institute opens its doors to writers of faith for intensive writing workshops. In addition, the Collegeville Institute partners with other institutes, seminaries, or churches to coordinate regional off-site workshops.
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        • Pop-Up Writing Workshop, March 22, 2025 (Colorado Springs, CO)
        • Pop-Up Writing Workshop, March 29, 2025 (Birmingham-Vestavia Hills, AL)
        • Pop-Up Writing Workshop, April 5, 2025 (Asheville, NC)
      • Flesh and Blood: Crafting a Communal Constructive Theological Anthropology, May 27-30, 2025
      • Apart, and Yet A Part, June 9-18, 2025
      • A Sparked Imagination, June 23-27, 2025
      • Deep and Wide: Longform Prose Revision, July 9-18, 2025
      • The Release:  How Writing in an Economy of Gifts Liberates Writers, September 29, 2025
      • Fifty Pairs of Eyes: Creating Characters in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry, October 27-November 1, 2025
      • Waiting for Words: An Advent Writing Workshop with Lauren Winner – 2025, December 2-6, 2025
      • 2026 Workshops

      • Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives with Isaac Villegas, March 2-7, 2026
      • Reading and Writing with Joan Didion (led by Alissa Wilkinson), March 16-22, 2026
      • Out of the depths: writing prayer: a poetry workshop with Marie Howe, May 4-8, 2026
      • Writing in the Wilderness: reflecting on the immigration stories that have shaped our lives with Isaac Villegas, May 15-19, 2026
      • Apart, and Yet a Part, a workshop with Michael N. McGregor, June 1-10, 2026
      • Writing in an Age of Anxiety, a workshop with Sara Billups, June 15-20, 2026
      • Publishing for the Public with Katelyn Beaty, June 25-30, 2026
      • Writing with the Mystics: A Generative Fiction Workshop with Garth Greenwell, July 13-19, 2026
      • Poetry, Scripture, & Imagination: A Workshop for Preachers with Jessica Jacobs, July 27-Aug 3, 2026
      • Grounded by Place/Growing through Time, a workshop with Camille T. Dungy, August 5-11, 2026
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      • The Communities of Calling Initiative invites congregations into a 5-year project on vocation.
        The Called to Lives of Meaning and Purpose Initiative, coordinated by the Collegeville Institute, funds 13 innovation hubs from across North America.
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      • BridgeIntroducing Calling & Discernment – language of calling, models of discernment, and calling across the lifespan
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      • FrancoisVideos & Interviews – video storytelling projects on vocation from Christian and interfaith perspectives
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    • Bringing together an ecumenical group of gifted Minnesota faith leaders, the Collegeville Institute Fellows Program focuses on leadership development with the goal of strengthening religious leaders’ sense of themselves as civic leaders.
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“Inspiring Faith. Deepening Understanding. Transforming Lives.

When you support the Collegeville Institute, you become part of a movement for faith, imagination, and renewal. Every gift – no matter the size – helps keep this vibrant, hope-filled community alive.

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Why Your Gift Matters

Your generosity sustains:

  • Writers and thinkers wrestling with faith in a complex world
  • Diverse Communities gathering to share stories and foster mutual understanding
  • Imagination being nurtured, hope rekindled

You make it possible for people to reflect, reclaim, and reimagine what it means to live faithfully today.

Carrying the Legacy Forward: Honoring Our Founder

We walk in the footsteps of Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB (1921–2025), whose vision for unity, hospitality, and deep listening laid our foundation.

Your partnership through prayer, encouragement, and financial support ensures his legacy lives on and flourishes into the future.

Your Annual Fund Gift

  • Covers essential operating costs—the operational backbone of all our programs 
  • Invests in innovation—empowering us to pilot new initiatives and serve emerging needs of our growing partnerships across scholarly, faith-based, and public contexts
  • Builds sustainability—fostering a diverse and resilient financial foundation

The 103 Campaign: Celebrate Father Kilian’s Vision

Fr. Killian McDonnell

Join the 103 Campaign to honor Fr. Kilian and support a renewed vision for our historic Resident Scholar Program:

  • $10.30/month or $103 one-time – Supports a day in the life of a resident scholar
  • $1,030 – Funds a travel fellowship for a visiting scholar
  • $10,300 – Covers one semester of residency for a scholar

When you give, you help scholars, leaders, and seekers deepen faith, ignite imagination, and create real change

“The Collegeville Institute gave me the structure and support I needed to be brave. I had never tried to write for a broader audience, but the facilitation of an amazing leader and instant friends made the impossible seem plausible. This is such a special place.”
Kate Bowler

Ways to Give

Cash, Check, Credit/Debit Card, Paypal, Venmo

Make an immediate impact with a one-time gift at collegevilleinstitute.org, by phone at 320-363-3366, or through the mail to Collegeville Institute, 2475 Ecumenical Drive, PO Box 2000, Collegeville, MN 56321

Recurring Gifts

By setting up a recurring monthly, quarterly or annual gift you provide a reliable source of funding for the Collegeville Institute. Simply select the appropriate option in the drop-down menu in the Gift Information section. You can spread your gift over 12 months.

Planned Gifts

With a Planned Gift, you can help to build Collegeville Institute’s future. Planned Gift
arrangements enable you to blend your financial and estate planning goals with your charitable objective. A planned gift of any size may have important financial benefits for you, your heirs and the Collegeville Institute. Give to what has inspired you.

Gifts from a Traditional IRA

Current tax law now affords the opportunity for those who are 70 1/2 or older to give up to $100k per year to the Collegeville Institute through the IRA Charitable Rollover, also known as a Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD)

Stock Gifts

Giving a gift of stock also benefits the donor. By donating highly appreciated shares directly to the College Institute the holder can avoid paying capital gains tax and possibly receive a tax
deduction. Contact us for more details on to give a stock transaction.

Donor Advised Funds

Quarterly, once or twice a year. You can use a Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) to make a gift.  Direct a grant from your DAF to the Collegeville Institute by contacting your advisor. If needed the Collegeville Institute Federal Tax ID is 41-6057644. To further discuss ways to give or for more information contact Pat Flicker, Director of the Annual Fund at pflickers001@collegevilleinstitute.org or phone – 320-760-9767.

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Give Today. Shape Tomorrow.

Now is the time to nourish a legacy of unity, faith, and community renewal Your generosity brings healing to our fractured communities. Join us in creating new paths of possibility for our shared life

Every donor, every prayer, every gesture of encouragement—helps us stay true to the founder’s heart and create a more vibrant, compassionate world.

Give Today: Inspire Tomorrow

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Latest News

Collegeville Institute receives $3.88 million Lilly Endowment grant to fund four years of the Ecclesial Literature Project: Words for the Church and the World.

October 28, 2025

The beloved founder of the Collegeville Institute, Fr. Kilian McDonnell, OSB, passed away September 8, 2025

September 10, 2025

Beloved Fr. Michael passed away July 15, 2025

July 17, 2025

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