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Christian Community Development Association

Christian Community Development Association

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Welcome to the online institute: providing courses to effectively equip you to live out the CCD philosophy and help create wholistic transformation in your community.

CCDA’s mission has always been to inspire, train and connect Christians called to marginalized communities. The CCDA Institute Online provides accessible training through online courses designed to help you be part of the restoring work God is accomplishing in your neighborhood.

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Featured Courses

  • Disability Inclusion for CCD Practitioners

    3 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Disability Inclusion for CCD Practitioners - $10.00

    One in four adults in the United States has a disability, the majority of which are non-apparent. How can we make our organizations more inclusive for people with disabilities? How can we design our policies and structures with them in mind? Join Jena Kitchen, with Radiate Social Impact, for this important and timely class. We […]

  • Wholistic Approach (2026)

    3 Lessonsin Featured, Philosophy and Community, Relocation
    • Wholistic Approach (2026) - $5.00

    Redistribution means creating equal access to resources, power, and opportunity for all humanity. When God’s people commit to living in marginalized and low-status communities, seek to be good neighbors, exemplify what it means to be a follower of Christ, work for justice for the entire community, and utilize resources to address the problems of the community alongside their neighbors, then redistribution is being practiced. A lifestyle of redistribution confronts the unjust distribution of our economic, social, educational, and relational resources. It breaks down our systems of poverty and oppression and decreases the economic disparity in our communities. As a result, our communities are able to flourish with the resources they need to do so. Join Darryl Answer to learn more about the CCD component of Redistribution.

  • Relocation (2026)

    3 Lessonsin Featured, Philosophy and Community, Relocation
    • Relocation (2026) - $5.00

    Redistribution means creating equal access to resources, power, and opportunity for all humanity. When God’s people commit to living in marginalized and low-status communities, seek to be good neighbors, exemplify what it means to be a follower of Christ, work for justice for the entire community, and utilize resources to address the problems of the community alongside their neighbors, then redistribution is being practiced. A lifestyle of redistribution confronts the unjust distribution of our economic, social, educational, and relational resources. It breaks down our systems of poverty and oppression and decreases the economic disparity in our communities. As a result, our communities are able to flourish with the resources they need to do so. Join Darryl Answer to learn more about the CCD component of Redistribution.

  • Redistribution (2026)

    3 Lessonsin Featured, Philosophy and Community, Redistribution
    • Redistribution (2026) - $5.00

    Redistribution means creating equal access to resources, power, and opportunity for all humanity. When God’s people commit to living in marginalized and low-status communities, seek to be good neighbors, exemplify what it means to be a follower of Christ, work for justice for the entire community, and utilize resources to address the problems of the community alongside their neighbors, then redistribution is being practiced. A lifestyle of redistribution confronts the unjust distribution of our economic, social, educational, and relational resources. It breaks down our systems of poverty and oppression and decreases the economic disparity in our communities. As a result, our communities are able to flourish with the resources they need to do so. Join Darryl Answer to learn more about the CCD component of Redistribution.

Courses

  • Redistribution (2025)

    3 Lessonsin Featured, Philosophy and Community, Redistribution
    • Redistribution (2025) - $5.00
    Redistribution Philosophy & Community Go deeper with the CCDA community and the CCD Philosophy’s 8 key components.

    A lifestyle of redistribution confronts the unjust distribution of our economic, social, educational, and relational resources. It breaks down our systems of poverty & oppression and decreases the economic disparity in our communities. Our communities are then able to flourish. Join Charles Cheek to learn more about redistribution.

  • Holy Shift: Pivoting Strategies in 2025

    2 Lessons
    • Holy Shift: Pivoting Strategies in 2025 - $10.00

    In light of our current moment, how do non-profits maintain focus while communicating mission and values to your staff, donors, stake holders, local community, board and in public facing venues? Join Everence and Cultured Enuf to learn how to manage risk yet maintain your mission and community impact.

  • Planning and Experiencing a Sabbatical

    2 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Renewed for the Journey: Planning, Experiencing, and Re-entry of Sabbatical - $10.00

    The Lord gave us sabbath and sabbatical as gifts. A sabbatical well planned, funded, supported, experienced, and reported on can refresh and renew a person’s soul, family, and ministry. Join Rev. Dr. Jason Leininger who will share resources, perspectives, and planning tools to plan, experience, and re-enter a sabbatical well and whole.

  • Sustaining Leaders in the Burnout Crisis

    2 Lessons
    • Sustaining Leaders in the Burnout Crisis - $10.00

    How can we create resilient organizations to withstand the emotional toll that community development nonprofits experience? One answer rests within trauma-responsive organizational leadership and its connections to community support. Join Jena Kitchen and Leo Hylton from Radiate Social Impact to develop tools to recognize and address burnout.

  • The Holistic Coaching Model

    2 Lessonsin Featured, Strengthening Your Organization
    • The Holistic Coaching Model - $10.00

    Michael Sickles and Madison Walter from Back2Back Cincinnati share about The Holistic Coaching model. The model is designed to equip adults investing in teenagers, so that they may coach and train youth towards holistic care and sustainability through an established, trusted relationship following the principles of Luke 10, as people of peace.

  • Advocating as a 501(c)(3)

    2 Lessons
    • Doing Justice in the Public Square: Advocating as a 501(c)(3) - $10.00

    Organizations with 501 (c) (3) status can advocate, but there are some limits. Veteran CCD practitioner and advocate Michelle Warren shares an informative and practical session on how to better understand how to raise your voice in advocacy without jeopardizing your organization's tax status.

  • Impact Reports Donors Won't Put Down

    2 Lessonsin Strengthening Your Organization
    • Create Impact Reports Your Donors Won't Put Down - $10.00

    Sonja Schappert Howden shares tips for creating annual reports that are more meaningful to your donors, strengthening your organization's fundraising efforts. Activities include building a reader profile and identifying best practices for describing the various types of data reported. Course participants also receive an impact report checklist.

  • Strategic Planning

    3 Lessonsin Organizational Development, Strengthening Your Organization
    • Strategic Planning for Community Engagement - $10.00

    Community transformation doesn’t happen by chance—it requires intentionality, strategic planning, and capacity building. This class equips community leaders, faith-based practitioners, and organizational teams with practical tools to design sustainable, impactful engagement strategies that foster long-term community change.

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