The Social Change Ecosystem Map is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align with social change values, individual roles, and the broader ecosystem. It can amplify Christian Community Development by helping us examine our community roles from a different perspective.
Create and promote stories that inspire while honoring the life and dignity of people, their experiences, and the storyteller. Join Angelica 'Lica' Acosta Garnett and Nate Ledbetter to integrate ethical storytelling standards into your practices.
Leaders need teams to accomplish their mission, but it’s not easy. People with diverse perspectives and communication styles can face many challenges when working together. Discover the benefits of using StrengthsFinder for team-building. Learn more about your team's individual and collective strengths, nurture personal, spiritual, and emotional health within your organization and between team members. Led by pastor and leadership coach Steve Garcia, leaders will receive tools to build their teams, play to their strengths, and get things done.
Which evaluation lens best fits your organizational context right now?Join us for the Check Yourself: The Spiritual Practice of Review and Evaluation class with Sonja Schappert to learn seven key areas to review and evaluate for organizational wellbeing. Learn important evaluative rhythms, multi-directional aspects, and how to root your vision in your present context.
Amy Williams reminds Christians to think soberly about their position in the work of Christian community development. As Christian community developers, we acknowledge that we are joining in work that God started before our arrival and that God will continue after our departure. As a result, we reject the tendency to see people as personal […]
The Social Change Ecosystem Map is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align with social change values, individual roles, and the broader ecosystem. It can amplify Christian Community Development by helping us examine our community roles from a different perspective.
In a culture that is ever clamoring for our attention, nonprofits and ministries need a clear, concise, and consistent message that motivates donors, volunteers, and program participants to take action. Effective messaging starts with an understanding of an organization’s purpose and of the target audiences that it exists to impact. This course offers proven insights […]
How can we reside in awe of others experiences and what they are carrying, instead of judgement at how they carry it? Fr. Greg Boyle explores measuring the health of community through kinship within a story of one of his “homies”, Jose. Father (Fr.) Greg Boyle is a Jesuit priest and founder of Homeboy Industries. […]
Our American culture values productivity and the bottom line. Our Christian culture adds to these values the importance of ministry and helping those in need. With all these influences pushing in on us it can be difficult to step back and allow rest to reset our life rhythms. This mirco course focuses on the importance […]
We have to begin with the work of the narrative. We must recognize the narrative that we own and the narrative of the people who are there have owned. The narratives we have about the communities we serve and the narratives the residents of the community have greatly impact Christian Community Development. In this course […]
How can we present pain and lament suffering within our communities while fostering action and change? Learn from Christine Brooks Nolf’s experience of John 11 & 12 that teaches us how the experience of pain can be transformed into innovative action.
Rev. Dr. Leroy Barber teaches how pain can serve as a space for cultivation.
