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.
Community Care & Safety honors life and its sanctity by creating community safety and spaces for second chances within the substance use recovery community. Join Kenny House in exploring unique ways we can offer care and safety for our community & neighbors.
Christian Community Development practitioners are committed to listening to their neighbors, living in community, and hearing their dreams, ideas and thoughts. By actively listening, together we can identify community assets, opportunities, and needs. Together we then cultivate, implement and benefit from a shared vision for our community.
How can the Church work for the flourishing of all society? Often, Christians care deeply for those within our church and see those outside its walls as “causes” or “issues” rather than image bearers with equal dignity and need. Our criminal legal system has replaced the Church as the first and longest responder to violence. […]
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 this sermon Adriana Mondragon-Hill shares a portion of her story as an immigrant to the United States. She describes the shame and guilt she once felt. For a long time her self-image was low because of the many disparaging comments she received from others. A turning point in her life occurred while she was […]
The push for data informed decision making can feel overwhelming to teachers, students, administrators, and parents alike. Sometimes, it feels as if the administrative requirements around data collection and reporting get in the way of our primary mission, educating and caring for children. Sunny Sue Chang Jonas teaches us that data should be viewed as […]
Psalm 1 encourages us to be as trees planted by streams of water because they yield their fruit in season, and their leaves do not wither. Enid Almanzar reminds us that these benefits are conditional on the tree being rooted near living water and not toxic and tainted water. Similarly, as CCD practitioners we must […]
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 […]
