from
from the
the President
President
O
In
In This
This Issue
Issue
The National Fund for Sacred Places
The
National
Fund for Sacred Places
Expands
Its Reach
Expands Its Reach 4
4
A Church That Inspires Us
A Church That Inspires Us 8
8
FEATURE STORY: Vermont Churches 10
FEATURE
STORY:
Vermont
Churches 10
Reclaim Their
Role
in the Community
Reclaim Their Role in the Community
Liminal Leadership: Congregational
Liminal
Leadership:
Congregational
Life In The
21st Century
Life In The 21st Century 15
15
Partners’ Capital Campaign Services
Partners’
Capital
Campaign
Services
at Work: We’re
Not
Just There
for
at
Work:
We’re
Not
Just
There
for
Ourselves
Ourselves 18
18
Professional Alliance Directory
Professional Alliance Directory 20
20
P ARTNERS FOR S ACRED P LACES is the only national, nonsectarian,
P ARTNERS
FOR S ACRED
P LACES
the only
national, and
nonsectarian,
nonprofit
organization
dedicated
to the is
sound
stewardship
active
nonprofit
organization
dedicated
the sound
stewardship and active
community
use of America’s
older to religious
properties.
community
use of America’s
older
properties.
Partners builds
the capability
of religious
congregational
leadership for building care,
Partners
builds fundraising
the capability
of congregational
leadership
for building care,
shared
use, capital
through
training programs,
fundraising
shared
use, and
capital
fundraising and
through
training
programs,
fundraising
assistance,
organizational
facility
assessments.
In the
process, Partners
assistance,
and organizational
facility
assessments. examine
In the process,
Partners
becomes a trusted
resource and and
guide
as congregations
and weigh
becomes
a trusted resource and guide as congregations examine and weigh
opportunities.
opportunities.
Partners engages with congregations to focus on critical areas such as:
Partners engages with congregations to focus on critical areas such as:
• Asset–mapping and community engagement—assisting congregations to
Asset–mapping
and community
engagement—assisting
congregations
to
• develop
new relationships
with neighbors
and potential community
partners.
develop new relationships with neighbors and potential community partners.
• Strategic partnerships and space sharing—brokering agreements between
Strategic
partnerships
and justice,
space sharing—brokering
agreements
between
• sacred
places
and arts, food
health, education, and
social service
sacred
places and arts, food justice, health, education, and social service
programs.
programs.
• Planning for capital campaigns to support repairs and renovations that
Planning
for capital
campaigns
to support
repairs
and
renovations
• preserve
significant
historic
features
and make
spaces
usable
for new that
preserve
significant
historic features and make spaces usable for new
community
programs.
community programs.
• Collaborative initiatives among unrelated congregations in a neighborhood
initiatives outreach,
among unrelated
congregations
in a neighborhood
• to Collaborative
encourage coordinated
space usage,
joint marketing
and
to
encourage events,
coordinated
outreach, space
joint marketing
and
interpretive
and coordinated
work usage,
with public
agencies for
lighting,
interpretive
and coordinated
work with public agencies for lighting,
signage, and events,
streetscape
improvements.
signage, and streetscape improvements.
f course, any nonprofit organization
f would
course,
any
organization
like
to nonprofit
have the ability
to handle
would
like
to
have
the
ability
to handle
any issue or address any problem
in its
any
issue
or
address
any
problem
in its
sector. For most of us, this is but an aspirational
sector.
For
most
of
us,
this
is
but
an
aspirational
goal. Most of us hope we can make our tools and
goal.
Most more
of us comprehensive,
hope we can make
our widely
tools and
resources
more
appli-
resources
more
comprehensive,
more
widely
cable and useful, while respecting our mission appli-
and
cable
and useful, while respecting our mission and
capacity.
capacity.
Thus, Partners has been endeavering to move
Partners
has been endeavering
to sign
move of
in the Thus,
direction
of comprehensiveness.
One
in
the
direction
of
comprehensiveness.
One
sign
this movement is the cover story on our Strategic of
this
movement
is the Places
cover story
on work
our Strategic
Investment
in Sacred
(SISP)
in Ver-
Investment
in
Sacred
Places
(SISP)
work
mont. This project brought to bear much in
of Ver-
the
mont.
This
project
brought
to
bear
much
of
knowledge and programming that Partners the
has
knowledge
and programming
that
Partners
developed over
the last 15 years:
building
the has
ca-
developed
over the last 15 helping
years: building
the ca-
pacity of congregations,
them engage
with
pacity
of congregations,
helping the
them
their communities,
measuring
Halo engage
value with
of
their
communities,
measuring
the
Halo
value
their properties, and positioning them to raise of
their
properties,
and positioning
capital
funds, among
other things. them to raise
capital
funds,
among
things.
SISP represents a other
holistic
and comprehensive
SISP
represents
a
holistic
and congregations
comprehensive
approach to helping and guiding
approach
to helping
and building
guiding assets
congregations
make the most
of their
in further-
make
the
most
of
their
building
assets
in further-
ance of mission and purpose. We have done
this
ance
of
mission
and
purpose.
We
have
done
this
work in Texas and Pennsylvania, too.
work You
in Texas
and
Pennsylvania,
too.
might say the entirety of this issue, too,
You
might
say comprehensive
the entirety of this
issue,
too,
reflects the
larger,
nature
of Part-
reflects
the
larger,
comprehensive
nature
of
Part-
ners’ work today:
today: Fund for Sacred Places represents a
The work
National
• ners’
National
Fund for
Sacred Places and
represents
• The
major
step forward
in grantmaking
partner- a
major
step
forward
in
grantmaking
and
partner-
ing, in this case with the National Trust for
His-
ing,
in
this
case
with
the
National
Trust
for
His-
toric Preservation.
toric
Preservation.
• The story of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Syra-
The story
of St.
Episcopal
Church
in Syra-
• cuse
will tell
you Paul’s
something
about
our work
to
cuse
will
tell
you
something
about
our
work
to
help congregations engage with their communi-
help
congregations
engage
with
their
communi-
ties.
The interview with Dr. Katie Day will illustrate
• ties.
The interview
with Dr. questions
Katie Day being
will illustrate
• some
of the scholarly
asked that
some
of
the
scholarly
questions
being
asked that
relate to Partners’ work.
relate
to
Partners’
work.
Today, Partners is more effective than ever in
Today,
Partners
is more
effective
than ever
in
making
the case
for the
civic value
of sacred
places
making
the
case
for
the
civic
value
of
sacred
places
at both the micro and macro levels. We endeavor to
at
both
the micro and
levels. We
endeavor
to
help
congregations
tell macro
their stories
of public
value
help
congregations
tell
their
stories
of
public
value
in their own communities, and we make the larger
in
their
own communities,
and
we national
make the level.
larger
case
to leaders
at the regional
and
case to leaders at the regional and national level.
And we do so as comprehensively as we can.
And we do so as comprehensively as we can.
—A. Robert Jaeger
—A. Robert Jaeger
ON THE COVER:
ON
THE COVER: Episcopal Church, Middlebury, VT.
St. Stephen’s
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury, VT.
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