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.
New Dollars/New Partners: Helping Congregations Maximize their Buildings for 17 Years
In 2003, Partners for Sacred Places piloted the New Dollars/New Partners training program to teach congregations the skills to restore and steward their historic buildings. The curriculum incorporated best practices in preservation, fundraising, and asset-focused community engagement, all taught by [...]
2019 Annual Report Now Available
A Message from our Leadership Looking back at the last year from the perspective of 2020, we are struck by something said by The Rev. James Moody, pastor of Quinn Chapel AME Church, the first African American church established in the city of Chicago: By restoring the congregation’s connection to t [...]
Every Church Can Do Something: A Conversation with The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis
Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of IndianapolisPhoto: Lucas Carter Partners for Sacred Places has had a long, almost 30-year relationship with Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, going back to the days when she served as an intern at Partners while completi [...]
Making the Most of Sacred Places in the Pandemic
March was a hectic month for All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Pontiac, a city 30 miles outside of Detroit. News of a global pandemic and rapidly changing guidelines for containing its spread forced the congregation to make quick decisions on the suspension or adaptation of its programs and activitie [...]