Who We Serve: Consulting
For over 30 years, Partners has provided services that empower congregations, helping the stewards of sacred places articulate and enhance the social, cultural, and economic value of their buildings and ministries for the wider community. Partners has helped over 200 congregations across the United States live out their mission and preserve their buildings.
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 [...]
Fear Not! Capital Campaigns in the Time of COVID
Congregations that had begun capital campaign projects before the pandemic or those just about to launch a campaign successfully developed novel solutions. Capital campaigns are organized, planned efforts to raise substantial sums of money in a relatively short period to make capital improvements, fund new ministries, or perhaps create an endowment – and are never easy in the best of circumstances.
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 [...]
Webinar: Stewardship Triage & Recovery: Strengthening giving during and after a crisis
In the first few weeks of social distancing, faith communities across the country are struggling to meet their budgeted annual giving goals. Join Partners for Sacred Places for a discussion of how the basics of healthy stewardship can be applied to the congregations’ current realities, and how cler [...]