Tennessee Legacy Initiative
Who will shape Tennessee?
Every student on Tennessee’s campus is being formed by someone or something.
The WIN Center is a seven-day-a-week formation, equipping, and sending center for students at the University of Tennessee.
The Place
Prime ground at the crossroads of campus.
One block from Cumberland Avenue, minutes from The Rock, surrounded by the residence halls of campus.
On the daily walk
Cumberland Avenue and the main routes to class pass within one block of the front door. The WIN Center sits inside the everyday path of campus life.
Surrounded by students
Fort Sanders rises to the north and the residence halls of campus spread to the south and east. Thousands of students sleep within a short walk.
Among the landmarks
Neyland Stadium, Ayres Hall, and the Student Union stand minutes away. This address places the vision on the map students already know.
Enrollment and housing figures reflect University of Tennessee published planning data. Walk times are approximate, at a campus pace. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The Need
Rewire the workforce for marketplace and ministry.
Today’s students are being discipled every day by something. The university shapes their worldview, social media shapes their values, and politics shapes their identity. The WIN Center will create a space for seven-day-a-week spiritual formation during this crucial time in their lives.
Barna Group, Christians at Work, 2018. barna.com/research/faith-workplace
The Plan
Three kinds of equipping
Students find their people here.
A space where students build real friendships and lasting support networks in an age when loneliness keeps rising.
The doors stay open seven days a week, with a coffee bar on the corner and room to study and stay.
Every profession becomes Kingdom ministry.
Business leaders mentor students in professional formation and spiritual depth so they carry the Gospel into medicine, law, finance, and politics.
Christian founders coach future entrepreneurs, and students receive Biblical formation for life and mission in the workplace.
A church home one block off Cumberland.
Weekly worship built for young adults, where students find a church that challenges them to grow and win their world.
Worship gathers in the same building where students study and meet their mentors.
The Building
Explore the WIN Center.
Turn the model, open the orange dots, and switch to the exploded view to see how each floor serves students.
Architectural concept, not a construction plan.
Signature Program
The Tennessee Fellows
- Identity
- Character
- Influence
- Multiplication
A selective four-year cohort receiving executive mentoring, marketplace internships, theology-of-work training, and evangelism formation, until graduation becomes commissioning.
Every graduate leaves as all four
We will report the measures that matter to our partners every year.
Square footage and raw numbers of people through the door will never be the measure of this work. The measures that matter are students discipled, leaders placed, and churches and ventures launched. We will track each one from day one.
Founding Partners
How will you invest in the WIN Center?
The WIN Center is a $12 million investment in the generation that will lead this state.
| Level | Gifts | Per gift |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy Founder | 2 | $2,000,000 |
| Vision Partners | 2 | $1,000,000 |
| Kingdom Builders | 3 | $500,000 |
| Founders Circle | 6 | $250,000 |
| Legacy Partners | 15 | $100,000 |
| Legacy Investors | 20 | $75,000 |
| Total | 48 | $12,000,000 |
Will you help shape Tennessee as a Founding Partner?
Commit to giveAn equipping space for the students who will lead Tennessee
Long after we’re gone, they’ll be leading companies, healing patients, teaching children, and planting churches, all because someone believed enough to invest.
Commit to give
The Tennessee Legacy Initiative is not affiliated with the University of Tennessee. Enrollment and housing figures reflect University of Tennessee published planning data. Workplace-faith findings: Barna Group.