Consulting Services
Partners builds the capability of congregational leadership for building care, shared use, and capital fundraising through training programs, fundraising assistance, and organizational and facility assessments. In the process, Partners becomes a trusted resource and guide as congregations examine and weigh opportunities.
Every sacred place is the center of a unique network for parishioners, neighbors, and friends. Having worked with thousands of sacred places across the country, Partners is uniquely positioned to help faith and lay leaders leverage these networks. Built on groundbreaking research and decades of diverse experiences, Partners’ expertise has helped congregations meet, and exceed, their goals – both in fundraising and community impact.
Partners consulting services can bring these unique tools, expertise, and resources to your congregation and community. Partners’ model focuses on the gifts, talents, and resources of every sacred place and their community to enhance the congregation’s capacity to meet the needs of the present and plan for the future!
Capital Campaign Services assist congregations to design and implement a fundraising campaign that leverages community-wide support.
Feasibility, Discovery, and Readiness Studies help congregations identify congregational and community support for capital improvements and civic impact.
Community Engagement Services assist congregations to build and strengthen relationships with neighbors and partners to increase investment in, and active use of, their historic buildings.
Space-Sharing and Adaptive Re-use assessments and tools assist congregations to develop strategies to activate underutilized spaces aligning with the congregation’s mission and vision.
Halo Valuation analyses give congregations language and tools to understand and communicate their impact to community and civic stakeholders.
Folk Art Projects in Nordic American Churches
Over 200 people from the communities surrounding Icelandic State Park and Cavalier, North Dakota gathered to celebrate the history of Hallson and to engage with four artists chosen to create new folk art pieces for the church
An Interview with The Rev. Dr. Donna Shaper
Spending time with The Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper, one of the founders of Bricks and Mortals in New York City, is always time well spent. She's a remarkable woman who is always full of ideas, initiatives, and opinions. She has been described as a career vagabond, an ideological contortionist, a politic [...]
An Interview with The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Frank
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Frank has served as a pastor, teacher and leader in United Methodism and historic preservation for decades, in recent years serving as University Professor at Wake Forest University and President of Partners for Sacred Places. In the wake of the publication of his book, Historic [...]
National Fund for Sacred Places: Congregations Complete Their Capital Projects in 2021
The National Fund for Sacred Places, a program of Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, works to help many of America’s most significant congregations advance the care and use of their historic properties. The only program of its kind in the [...]