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Board of Trustees

Execut ive Message

M i ss ion, V i s ion, Values

A Place for Boundary Crosss ings

Alban’s Ongoing Evolut ion

The Importance of Relat ionships

Conversat ions Across Exper iences

Faith and Everyday Leadership

Trans it ion Into M in i stry

Looking Forward

Donors

Statements of F inanc ial Pos it ion

and Act iv it ie s

Front Cover:Polos Entering Peking, 14th Century.

The Granger Collection, New York

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T R U S T E E S

Robert Abernethy

The Reverend Dr. Wesley Brown

Timothy C. Coughlin

Jerry Davidoff, Esq.

Secretary

The Reverend Judy Record Fletcher

Michael E. Hanson

Pamela J. Johnson

James W. Jones, Esq.

Vice-Chair & Treasurer/Chair,

Finance Committee

The Reverend Pierce Klemmt

Chair

Robert McLean III

Richard W. Snowdon III, Esq.

Chair, Institutional

Advancement Committee

The Reverend Ann Svennungsen

The Reverend Dr. James P. Wind

President

Ex-officio

H O N O R A RY T R U S T E E S

Miss Pamela P. Chinnis

The Honorable John C. Danforth

P R E S I D E N T E M E R I T U S

The Reverend Dr. Loren B. Mead

T R U S T E E S E M E R I T U S

Ms. Jean G. Bacon

The Reverend Dr. Darold H. Beekmann

Mrs. Darlene K. Haskin

The Very Reverend James Leo

Mr. George L. McGonigle

The Reverend Dr. William McKinney

Dr. William M. Murray

Ms. Diane B. Pollard

Mr. Christopher R.P. Rodgers

The Reverend Dr. Ralph R. Warren Jr.

Mr. James MacAdam Willson

2006b o a r d o f t r u s t e e s

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he Alban Institute’s offices are located in the greater metropolitan area of Washington,

DC. More than a building or a place on a map, the Alban Institute exists as a special

ensemble of people with a shared vision and set of values. Alban provides a rich mix

of resources for America’s congregations and a place for making connections and

crossing boundaries.

People find Alban in a variety of ways: by reading an article or book we have published,

participating in one of our seminars or public forums, or working with our consultants. As

I reflect on this past year, I am especially aware of Alban’s crucial role in creating learning

communities and new learning pathways.

As more people explore the Congregational Resource Guide (CRG) Web site on a regular basis,

subscribe to our Alban Weekly electronic newsletter, and visit the Alban Web site to purchase

books or register for seminars, patterns of learning take root. Alban facilitates, supports, and

strengthens those patterns.

Our Transition into Ministry project stresses how important it is for clergy to have longer patterns

of interaction and peer communities that endure over time and distance. Our independent position

allows us to lift up best practices wherever they emerge.

At times, Alban promotes learning simply by creating the right setting—by providing the meeting

room and assembling people with diverse knowledge and experience. In 2006, our Faith and

Everyday Leadership panel discussion brought together leaders from congregations and the greater

metropolitan Washington, DC community to talk about the intersection of faith and everyday life

and leadership. Earlier in the year, we hosted another discussion that opened up a dialogue among

evangelical and mainline Christians about our differences and our common values. At these events,

fruitful dialogue took place.

Alban helps develop strong congregational leaders—through our consultations and education events—

by allowing people to interact in different ways to perhaps understand one another better, be more

hospitable, and enrich one another.

Alban’s research agenda and publishing program are making important contributions to a body of

knowledge for today’s congregations in all their variety. The Indianapolis Center for Congregations,

the CRG, and our own Web site are distinct commitments we have made to provide congregations

with the resources they need to meet their greatest challenges and grasp their opportunities.

Like an orchestra, Alban combines a mix of instruments. So do congregations. Different instruments

can combine to create melodies that change the listener, who, in turn, can change the world. In this

way, Alban’s work has a multiplying effect on congregational leaders and the ministries they support.

Reverend Dr. James P. Wind

President

Executive Message

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MissionThe Alban Institute builds up congregations and their

leaders to be agents of grace and transformation

to shape and heal the world.

VisionThe Alban Institute is an independent center of learning

and innovation that connects congregational leaders

with the most creative people, ideas, and resources to

fulfill their high callings.

We will build a robust network of congregational leaders,

generate new knowledge, produce excellent resources,

create powerful and inspiring learning environments,

and equip congregations and their leaders to engage in

public conversations about the most pressing issues of the day.

ValuesWe believe that God works through congregations

of believers to shape and heal the world.

We create safe places where people from diverse

backgrounds can learn together.

We are committed to creative and practical learning

that crosses cultural, religious, professional,

and disciplinary boundaries.

Place for Boundary CrossingsThe Great Silk Road stretched across remote and exotic

lands from Constantinople to China. Along its vast route,

people of different cultures and religions met in trading

towns to exchange goods as well as ideas, attitudes,

traditions, beliefs, and knowledge. In places where

cultures come together and learn from one another,

today as then, a spirit of discovery pervades. Respect

and diversity reigns. Innovation emerges. The traveler

returns home with wonders.

Like one of those way stations on the Silk Road, the Alban

Institute bridges many cultures—the seminary and parish

ministry, the Protestant mainline and evangelicalism,

religion and the secular world, different faith traditions,

different disciplines, and more. Alban is ideally suited for

such boundary crossings. We are an independent center

of learning and leadership development with a focus on

congregations. In the ecology of American religion, we are

not officially connected with any one group, yet we are in

conversation with many.

This is an age of information overload. Like the chaos of

a trading bazaar, the choices can be overwhelming. Alban

provides safe spaces for learning, growing, and making

new connections across cultures. At Alban, we sort through

the ever-changing marketplace of ideas. We synthesize and

interpret discoveries, create new knowledge, and share the

fruits of our work as practical resources. Our statement of

mission, vision, and values guides our efforts. In 2006,

Alban’s leadership team and board of trustees further

distilled our mission statement to communicate, as clearly

as possible, what Alban is called to be and to do.

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lban’s Ongoing Evolution Over the years, the Alban Institute has continuously broadened

its reach, delved deeper into focus areas, and adapted its

approaches to build up congregations and their leaders. We

want congregations to thrive as institutions. We also challenge them to look beyond

their own walls.

Alban continues to grow and evolve as an organization with integrated parts. In

the past year, we released fourteen books intended to provide practical ways to help

faith communities and their leaders discern and pursue their callings. Our consulting

practice faced the challenge of strong demand for its services. Our educational events

offered hands-on learning, intimacy, and sharing of experiences across denominations

and demographics. Our research on the transition from seminary into parish ministry

produced a special issue of Congregations magazine; the generous support of Lilly

Endowment Inc. allowed us to distribute it to 5,000 seminarians and another 15,000

to congregations across the country for free. Other outcomes of this research, including

a special report, will appear in the coming year.

In 2006, the Indianapolis Center for Congregations (www.centerforcongregations.org),

Alban’s affiliated organization, increased its reach beyond Indianapolis into other areas

of Indiana. The number of people using the Congregational Resource Guide Web site

(www.congregationalresources.org) for resource recommendations increased 65 percent.

Visits to the Alban Web site and subscriptions to the Alban Weekly electronic newsletter

also climbed. Alban hosted two public conversations to encourage dialogue on important

topics. We also launched our Faith and Everyday Leadership initiative to better under-

stand how faith connects with people’s everyday lives and leadership.

A common thread through all of these endeavors is the support we receive from our

donors, grant supporters, members, clients, customers, and thought partners, and the

commitment we return. Alban does not exist apart from the larger network of people

and organizations that share a belief in the power of congregations to shape and heal

the world.

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he Importance of RelationshipsRelationships shared in community help draw us closer into relationship with

God. These relationships include the relationship between the congregation’s

leaders and the people in the congregation as well as relationships within the

congregation. This theme of the importance of relationships is evident across

Alban’s 2006 publishing list.

In Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times, Peter Steinke expands on

his understanding of congregations as emotional systems by exploring the

relationship between a leader and the congregation and their mutual

influence. A Generous Presence by Rochelle Melander shows how deepening

personal and professional relationships will make leaders more effective.

The book Lending Your Leadership by Nelson Granade addresses the unique

gifts that pastors and congregations bring to the wider community to

accomplish things that would otherwise be beyond their grasp. Dean

Lueking’s The Grace of It All similarly emphasizes the link between building

up congregations and building up the community. In This House We Build,

Rabbi Terry Bookman and William Kahn show the power of positive

relationships in creating and supporting healthy faith communities.

Alban has long published books and articles that help equip people to

know and fulfill their own callings. We honor the distinctiveness of every

congregation and reject one-size-fits-all approaches. Our authors draw from

many sources—personal experiences, research studies, and the spheres of

business, psychology, science, and theology—yet they share their learning in

ways that are relevant in the congregational setting and easy to understand.

onversations across ExperiencesThe Alban Institute is rooted in mainline Protestant Christianity and has

experience with many denominations and faith traditions. Our staff,

members, authors, and educators include Catholics, Episcopalians, Jews,

Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Unitarian Universalists and others.

Alban is a meeting ground for conversations about our differences and

shared perspectives.

Instead of writing to a generic standard, Alban publications honor

the particularities that come out of an author’s faith tradition. For

example, we recently published This House We Build, a book about

congregational health in synagogues. Yet the book is also relevant

to congregations across many faiths. If a Methodist can get ideas from

the Lutheran, the Christian reader may be inspired by lessons from

Judaism. Alban’s role, then, is to facilitate these cross-denominational

conversations, encourage innovation, and lift up models of vitality

wherever we find them.

One of the advantages of participating in an Alban event, such as a

public forum or an education seminar, is being in a safe environment

for learning and dialogue—beyond the boundaries of one’s own

congregational or denominational system. In 2006, Alban seminar

participants from around the country represented congregations of

all sizes and circumstances.

In November, Alban hosted an event that brought together Randall

Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts

the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical ’s Lament, and Richard

Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Bob

Abernethy, executive editor and host of Religion & Ethics News Weekly

on PBS, moderated the discussion. This well-attended event provided a

forum for dialogue on evangelicalism as a social and political force in

the United States. The panelists and audience voiced disagreements

and raised challenges. They also found common ground. Not

surprisingly, Cizik and Balmer agreed that congregations play an

important role in helping individuals live as people of faith in today’s

world; and Cizik pointed to an emerging opportunity for evangelicals

and mainline Christians to work together on issues of social justice

and the environment.

The work of Alban senior consultant Susan Nienaber underscores

Alban’s emphasis on the power of dialogue as a way to transform

conflict. Neinaber contributed two articles to the summer issue of

Congregations and led a new education seminar about the use of

dialogue in congregations. She and the other Alban consultants are

helping congregations talk about their differences by using dialogue

techniques such as storytelling, mediation, consensus forums, and

small- and large-group interactions.

Beth Ann Gaede, editor When a Congregation Is Betrayed: Responding to Clergy Misconduct

Peter Bush and Christine O’ReillyWhere 20 or 30 Are Gathered:

Leading Worship in the Small Church

Nelson Granade Lending Your Leadership: How Pastors Are Redefining Their Role in Community Life

Janet R. CawleyWho Is Our Church? Imagining

Congregational Identity

Robert P. Glick With All Thy Mind: Worship That Honors the Way God Made Us

Rochelle Melander A Generous Presence: Spiritual Leadership

and the Art of Coaching

Peter L. Steinke Healthy Congregations: A Systems Approach

(reissued in new format)

Peter L. Steinke How Your Church Family Works: Understanding

Congregations as Emotional Systems(reissued in new format)

Peter L. SteinkeCongregational Leadership in Anxious Times: Being Calm and Courageous No Matter What

Kathleen S. SmithStilling the Storm: Worship and Congregational

Leadership in Difficult Times

F. Dean LuekingThe Grace of It All:

Reflections on the Art of Ministry

Terry Bookman and William Kahn This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy

Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There

Richard Bass, editorLeadership in Congregations

Marlea Gilbert, Christopher Grundy, Eric T. Myers, and Stephanie Perdew

The Work of the People: What We Do in Worship and Why

14 New Booksfrom Alban Publ i sh ing

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aith and Everyday Leadership From the start, Alban has been deeply interested in the

intersection of faith and daily life and leadership. In 2006,

we began an initiative—Faith and Everyday Leadership—to

examine the role that congregations can play in helping

people live out their faith in the work they do.

Increasingly, people want to pursue the work they feel

called to do, without waiting on designated leaders to

show them the way. With complexity and specialization on

the rise in so many of life’s arenas, the need for leadership

has never been greater. How then do congregations

support leadership in its many forms? And how are leaders

in the everyday world influenced by their faith? We began

to explore these questions in an Alban Institute Report on

Faith and Everyday Leadership, available on our Web site

(www.alban.org).

On November 15, 2006, at the Metropolitan Club in

Washington, DC, Alban hosted a panel discussion to share

the Faith and Everyday Leadership report and foster

dialogue about this important topic. Moderated by Alban’s

incoming board chairman, James W. Jones, the panel of

speakers included Marie Johns, former chief executive of

Verizon Washington, DC; Mike Daniels, chairman of

telecommunications powerhouse Mobile 365 and former

chairman of Network Solutions; and Dr. Michael Maccoby,

best-selling business author, consultant, and leadership

coach. The discussion centered on the breakdown in civility

and the greater polarization of society, and how people of

faith and the congregations that nurture them might lend

their leadership for positive change.

Trans it ion into Min istry

Moving from the seminary into the

culture of a congregation is a big

adjustment for most new clergy.

Congregations are complex social networks

that sometimes can be like extended

families. A new pastor joins a web of

relationships and inherits a set of shared

expectations. The learning curve is steep

from the classroom to the first sermon,

funeral, or church board meeting. Any

number of real-life situations call for the

ability to adapt, improve, and learn while

leading. New pastors must shape their

own sense of pastoral identity as they live

into the reality of their role. Many feel

alone in this task.

In our early years, the Alban Institute

recognized the critical importance of the

transition into parish ministry, those

first five years that set the habits and

inclinations that last a lifetime. In 2006,

Alban had the chance to examine current

transition programs as well as programs

from the past four decades. This summer,

we will publish our findings in a report

for Lilly Endowment Inc.’s seven-year

Transition into Ministry initiative. This

report will provide an overview and review

of a variety of transition programs—

including internships, post-seminary

education, clinical pastoral education

programs in hospitals, and denominational

programs. Participants have benefited

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Marie Johns,Mike Daniels, and Dr. Michael Maccoby.

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ooking ForwardIn the coming year, Alban will continue our

Faith and Everyday Leadership and Transition

into Ministry projects as we also evaluate the

power of story for leadership within congregations. We

expect to publish more books than we did last year. We

will expand our education offerings both in terms of subject

matter and delivery method. We will redesign the Alban

Web site to make it easier to navigate and richer in content

and interactivity.

At Alban, mission and business are intertwined. By continually

striving to improve the quality of our research projects, publi-

cations, education program, consulting practice, membership

program, and fund-raising efforts, we are also advancing our

mission. By remaining a vital meeting place for learning across

cultural boundaries, Alban will help shape the strong congre-

gational leaders of the future who are so vital in helping

people live lives of faith.

from peer-learning groups, mentoring

relationships, theological resources, and

chances for critical reflection.

Alban’s independence gives us a vantage

point to examine the unique strengths and

special challenges of various transition

programs. Our goal is to identify best

practices and transfer learning. We hope

to strengthen what works and build

bridges among congregations, seminaries,

and denominations to support pastoral

formation in all congregations. Finding

cost-effective ways to support pastors in

their first call is certainly a major

challenge for congregations.

Depending on what happens in the first

years of ministry, a pastor can develop

a healthy self-image and the skills needed

to lead a congregation. A new pastor can

also fall short of his or her potential, lose

the passion for parish ministry, and even

leave it altogether. A successful transition

from being a student in a seminary to

being the principal leader of a congre-

gation takes a variety of practical

skills and competencies as well as

knowledge. It takes many different

spiritual and emotional resources. It

also takes time. The central question

of this initiative is: How can we create

the best environment for beginning

clergy so they might develop a dynamic

and powerful pastoral identity and rich

pastoral imagination to benefit the

people they serve?

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Reverend Tita Calzada

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Rabbi Paul F. Cohen

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Congregation Beth El, Fairfield, CT

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Mike Daniels

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Susan L. Denne and David C. Stover

Elizabeth S. Depenauin honor of Daughters of the King

John F. De Vries

The Reverend Joseph A. DiRaddo

Luke Ditewig

Reverend Dr. Bruce Dobyns

Reverend James K. Donnell

Reverend Genevieve M. Dox

Karen Nichols Dungan

Ann L. Dyke

Betty Eddy

Bert T. Edwardsin honor of Timothy Coughlin

Don L. Edwards

Helen Eisenhart

William and Edie Enrightin honor of James P. Wind

Karen L. Epps

Reverend Alice W. Erickson

Dr. James H. Erickson

Dr. Warren M. Eshbach

Gordon Q. Evison

Ian S. Evison

Pastor Suzan Farley

Bill Ferguson

Jane B. Field

First Congregational Church, Glen Ellyn, IL

First Lutheran Church, Greensboro, NC

Rabbi Michelle Fisher

Alden B. Flanders

Wayne Whitson Floyd

Reverend Dr. Christine Fontaine

Nancy Fowler

Carol D. Freund

Reverend Susan C. Gaffney

Lewis F. Galloway

Alban V i s ionary($10,000 and above)

Jay and Doris Christopher

The Honorable and Mrs. William H. Draper

Lilly Endowment Inc.

The Henry Luce Foundation

Richard W. Snowdon III

Alban Benefactor($5,000 – $9,999)

Mr. and Mrs. Owsley Brown II

The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, FL

The Reverend Pierce Klemmt

The Macfarlane Foundationin honor of Loren B. Mead

Robert McLean III

Mario M. Morino

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. James P. Wind

Alban Sponsor($1,000 – $4,999)

Robert G. Abernethy

John C. W. Bennettin honor of The Reverend Canon

Ralph Godsall

Timothy C. Coughlin

Senator and Mrs. John C. Danforth

Jerry and Denise Davidoff

The Very Reverend James A. Diamond

Lucile Edwina DuBose Trust

The Reverend Judy R. Fletcher

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hanson

Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Huskein honor of Molly Wade

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Jones

William Laimbeer

The Rt. Reverend Peter James Lee

Alice Mann

Allen W. Mead, MD

The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Loren B. Mead

The Reverend Helen M. Moorein honor of The Reverend and

Mrs. Stephen Wade

The Reverends Jeff Oak and Carol Pinkham Oak

Gil and Lynne Rendle

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The Reverend and Mrs. Stephen H. Wade

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Alban Friend ($500 – $999)Jill and Martin Baumgaertner

Darold and Marlene Beekmann

Brent and Nancy Bill

Wesley F. Brown

Cummins Family Trust

Case Hoogendoorn

The Reverend Dan Hotchkiss

Robert F. Leventhal

George McGonigle, D.D.in honor of Loren B. Mead

Lee Nelson

Christopher R. P. Rodgers

Ann Svennungsen

Reverend John Wetzel

Alban Supporter (Up to $499)Katharine J. Adamson

Dr. C. Allen and Terri Admirein memory of James C. Parker, Sr.

Sharon A. Alexander

All Saints' Episcopal Church, River Ridge, LA

Reverend Michael E. Allwein

Rabbi Thomas M. Alpert

Pastor Rolf and Irene Amundsenin honor of Roy M. Oswald

Carol Anderson

Reverend Cheryl P. Anderson

John Anderson

The Reverend Marilyn Anderson

The Reverend Leo G. Angevine

Anonymousin honor of Ralph Godsall

Fred and Trena Ansell

David and Gloria Baker

Reverend Dr. David A. Bard

The Venerable Malcolm M. Barnum

Joy A. Barrett

Richard and Diana Bass

Reverend Gerald W. Bauer

Bruce and Susan Beaumont

General and Mrs. J. W. Becton Jr.

The Reverend William E. Beldan Jr.

Reverend Philip A. Bell

The Reverend Canon Ernest L. Bennett

A. Wayne Benson

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Kathleen A. Cahalan and Donald B. Ottenhoff

Rob and Marta Cahill

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2006 Donors

Harold W. Garbarino

Dr. Hillary Gaston Sr.

Reverend Janie S. Gebhardt

Reverend and Mrs. Frederic B. Geehr

Chandler and Barbara Gilbert

Teresa Gilbert

Reverend G. Dean Goebel

Julia A. Goodyear

Karen M. Grane

Lawrence E. Grayson

Mark Elam Greenin honor of Dr. Dan Whitaker

Claudia Greerin honor of Terry Colburn

Reverend Robert J. Groenke Jr.

Reverend Charles L. Grover III

Celia A. Hahn

Becky Hall

Beth Marie Halvorsen

Elizabeth A. Hardin

Reverend and Mrs. Robert L. Harris

Sharon T. Hart

Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA

Victor W. Henningsen Jr.in honor of Robert McLean

Reverend Bruce E. Henzell

Myron Hirsch, Whitehall Printing Company

William Chris Hobgood

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Hoffman

Jack R. Hoffman

Mark and Kathryn Vitalis Hoffman

Reverend C. L. Hopper

Abram M. Hostetter

Reverend Sally J. Houck

The Reverend Carl R. Hull

The Reverend Larry and Alice Hummer

Joan M. Humphrey

J. Richard and Marjorie E. Huntin honor of Pastor Kay Glaesner, Jr.

Jonathan D. Hutchison

Nancy W. Ignatius

The Rt. Reverend Russell Jacobus

The Reverend Drs. Jeffrey and Lynn Japinga

Pamela Johnson

Thomas M. Johnston

Reverend Stefan M. Jonasson

Carolyn J. Jones

Reverend Timothy F. Jones

Norb Kabelitz

The Reverend William L. Kay

Verdery Kerr

Bunty Ketcham

David Kidd

The Reverend Debra Kissinger

Jim Kitchensin honor of John Turpin

Rabbi Marc Kline

Kurk and Carl Klossner

Terry D. Knight

Sandra Clark Kolbin honor of Loren Mead, on the50th anniversary of his ordination

The Reverend and Mrs. Robert A.Krogman

Reverend Dr. Damon Laaker

Christine Laitner

William H. Lamar IV and CourtneySmith Lamar

Patti J. Lawrence

Kendrick Lee Jr.

Bishop Linda Lee

Vernon L. Lee

Mileva Saulo Lewis

Joseph Lockett

Dr. Mark Lodicoin memory of The Reverend Mark Grotke

Reverend and Mrs. Jack H. Lottey

Reverend Peter W. Lovejoy

Reverend Katherine Austin Mahle

Dr. Don Makinin memory of Virginia W. Makin

Dr. and Mrs. Preston C. Manning Jr.in honor of Loren B. Mead

Reverend Richard K. Markland

Hugh Marsh

The Reverend David Marshall

Dr. and Mrs. Martin Marty

The Reverend Dr. Daniel P. Matthews

Pastor Larry and Nancy Matthews

Reverend Leah F. Matthews

William E. Matthews IV

Susan S. McCrackenin memory of ReverendC. R. McCracken

Elizabeth McKee

William and Linda McKinney

Margaret McNaughton-Ayers

Gail and Bill Merriam

Reverend Dr. Paul Meyer

Rabbi Brian I. Michelson

Suzanne Mink

The Reverend Michael Penn Moore

Reverend Dr. David Moreland

The Reverend and Mrs. Michael F. Murray

Dr. and Mrs. William M. Murray

Marilyn M. Myersin memory of Clifford E. Myers

Reverend Leslie F. Nesin

Helen P. Netos

Reverend Dorry Newcomerin memory of Reverend William Newcomer

Fred R. Neyland

Roger S. Nicholson

Reverend Margaret Niederer

Kathryn Palen

Howard and Sarah Palmatier

Reverend Frank Patrick

George Peabody

Rabbi Michelle Pearlman

Lawrence Peers

Reverend David Peters

Pastor Will Peugeot

The Reverend Paul J. Pfadenhauer

Reverend Frank Philipin honor of Unity Church of Hollywood

Richard W. Pitcher

Reverend Ann H. Plummer

Reverend Melle Pool

David Pratt

Reverend Jeanne Pupke

William E. Ramsden

Francine Rask

Reverend William S. Reasner

Reverend Laura Reason

Adrian Robbins-Cole

Reverend David J. Roppel

The Reverend John P. Rosenberg

Carol Rowehl

Dr. Richard E. Rusbuldt

William L. Sachs

Rabbi Neil Sandler

The Reverend Jill Job Saxby

The Very Reverend Robert AlanSchiesler, PhD

Richard and Margaret Schneider

Rabbi Aaron Schonbrun

M. E. Schoonoverin memory of John B. Kelley

Reverend Judy A. Schultz and Mr. Ivan R. King

Reverend Dorothea E. Schweitzer

Rabbi Ronald M. Segal

Kevin Shanley

Mark Shapiro

Carroll Sheppard

Fred L. Shillingin honor of Speed Leas

Pastor Robert H. Shoffner

Esther W. Shoup

Reverend David L. Shugert

Reverend C. Joseph Sitts

Reverend William M. Smutz

The Reverend William E. Smyth

St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Albany, OR

St. Alban's Parish, Washington, DC

St. James Episcopal Church,Hendersonville, NC

St. John's Episcopal Church, Essex, NY

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,North Myrtle Beach, SC

The Reverend Dr. N. Graham Standish

Rabbi Eric B. Stark

Rabbi Jonathan A. Stein

Rabbi Susan Stone

William E. Stone

Dr. Theodore Stoneberg

Ralph J. Stoudt Jr.

The Reverend Dr. Ruth H. Strang

Karl Swain

Pastor Richard M. Swansonin honor of A. E. Swanson

Andreas and Tracy Teich

Reverend Paul A. Telferin memory of ReverendWalter A. Telfer

Larry Thomas

Peter Thompson

L. Eugene Ton

P. D. Tuttle

The Reverend and Mrs. Richard L. Ullman

United Methodist Church Union,Pittsburgh, PA

Unity Center of Light, McKinney, TX

Reverend Canon Samuel Van Culin

The Reverend Dr. Richard E. Visser

The Reverend Janice A. Vogt

Eric I. von Zinkernagel

The Reverend Janet C. Watrousin honor of Bishop Michael Curry

Nancy P. Welbourn

Reverend H. E. Wells

Peter W. Wenner and Barbara S.Williamson

John and Lucy Werner

The Reverend and Mrs. John B.Wheeler

The Reverend Bailey O. Whitbeck

The Reverend Canon Marlin Whitmer

Katherine J. Wilhelmin memory of Dr. George Kuykendall

Dr. John A. Wilkerson Jr.

Alfred E. Williams

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Reverend Mason Wilson

Karolee Wirt

April Young and Bob Kelly

Louis Zbinden

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Reverend Albert P. Zoller

Rabbi Leonard Zukrow

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he following is a summary of thestatement of financial position of theAlban Institute as of December 31,2006, and the statement for the yearthen ended.*

This financial information was extracted from the

audited financial statements of the Alban Institute,

Inc. It does not, however, include all disclosures

normally associated with financial statements

prepared in conformity with generally accepted

accounting principles. The complete financial

statements, including footnotes and the report

of our accountants, Squire, Lemkin & O’Brian, LLP,

are available for review upon request by contacting

the Alban Institute.

* This is a consolidated statement reflecting the assets and liabilit iesof both the Alban Institute proper and its subsidiary, the IndianapolisCenter for Congregations.

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Statements of Financial Position & Activities

Unrestricted Activities SummaryFinancial Position Summary

December 31, 2006

Assets

Current Assets $14,425,651

Property & Equipment 150,960

Other Assets 223,669

Total Assets $14,800,280

Liabilities & Net Assets

Liabilities:

Current Liabilities $635,571

Other Liabilities 57,877

Total Liabilities $693,448

Net Assets:

Unrestricted

Undesignated $552,939

Designated 632,474

Temporarily Restricted 12,683,482

Permanently Restricted 237,937

Total Net Assets $14,106,832

Total Liabilities & Net Assets $14,800,280

December 31, 2006

Revenue & Support

Consulting $955,306

Education Events 433,160

Publication Sales 1,204,168

Membership Dues 357,530

Grants & Contributions 4,089,328

Dividends & Interest 660,205

Other Income 93,384

Total Revenue & Support $7,793,081

Expenses

Program Expenses:

Consulting $933,300

Education Events 335,732

Publications 976,819

Member Services 131,065

Grants & Projects 3,727,079

Other Expenses 4,387

Total Program Expenses $6,108,382

Management & General:

Grant Development & Fundraising $192,051

Administration 1,105,652

Total Management & General $1,297,703

Total Expenses $7,406,085

Results of Operations $386,996

Realized & Unrealized Gain (Loss) (185)

Change in Unrestricted Net Assets $386,811

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