Advocates for Justice

ADC RECEIVES $100,000 MATCHING GRANT TO support the Oliver Chair

Acadia Divinity College is called to a ministry of reconciliation and justice, including a commitment to embrace underrepresented communities. We are equipping and encouraging our students, clergy, and churches to become advocates for justice and equality in their local contexts. To support this key priority, in 2022 ADC announced the establishment of The Reverend Dr. William and Dr. Pearleen Oliver Chair of Community Leadership and Social Justice.

An investment of $3M is needed to fully fund this academic chair. More than $550,000 in gifts and pledges have been received for the Oliver Chair, including significant support from the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, the Redleaf Foundation, as well as churches of the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, the Board of Trustees, faculty, and staff of Acadia Divinity College.

Fundraising for the Oliver Chair received a huge boost with a generous pledge of a $100,000 matching grant from the Atlantic Baptist Foundation. “We are deeply grateful for the vision and partnership of the Atlantic Baptist Foundation,” stated ADC President Anna Robbins. “Their matching funds are doubling the impact of the giving of our churches and associations to the Oliver Chair.”

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