Sacred Buildings | Consultancies

By no means comprehensive, this is an evolving page for introducing you to organizations doing excellent work to help faith communities make good choices around caring for old sacred sites. Learn a bit more about: Who is doing what. Where to look for help. What questions to ask. What good consultants can do to support and guide your community.

And if either my spouse or I can be of help, there’s a little info about us HERE. Logos are links to each organization’s website. Click through for full descriptions in their own words. Keep scrolling for a quick summary of a few groups to know.

Full disclosure: I have worked as an adjunct consultant with Partners since 2023. I was also a client on the clergy side of their services.

  • RootedGood helps faith-based organizations imagine, create, and sustain a new economic future that contributes to the flourishing of their wider communities.

    Explore their website HERE.

  • Resources and “How To” Guides HERE.

    Includes:

    • Good Futures Accelerator

    • How to Rent Well

    • How to Develop Well

    • How to Sell Well

    • What about Taxes

    • Money & Mission Alignment

  • Guide Topics Include:

    • How To End Well

    • How To Partner Well

    • How to Rent Well

    • How to Develop Well

    • How to Sell Well

    All Rooted Good Guides HERE.

  • At Ministry Incubators, we conspire with would-be innovators to get their wild, faith-inspired projects clarified, launched, and sustainable, so that communities can be changed for the better.

  • Full description of services HERE.

    Services include:

    • Innovation Coaching (1:1)

    • Organizational Coaching

    • Hatchathon Cohorots—2-day event where you workshop your innovative ideas. You’ll then have regular meetings with your cohort and innovation coach to help you along the way.

  • In their own words: “Ministry Incubators offers Games, Books, and Classes for Jump-starting Innovation in your own community”

    Find all Good Friday Collaborative resources HERE.

  • In their own words: “We help communities reimagine underutilized religious properties for social impact.”

    Read about Sympara’s Mission & Vision HERE.

    • The Sacred/Civic Placemaking Project

    • Sympara Asset-Mapping Tool

    • Aging for the Common Good

    • Congregational Death/Community Life

    • Conversations on Sacred/Civic Placemaking

    Full description of consulting and cohorts HERE.

  • In their own words: “Encounters, exchanges and epiphanies in sacred/civic space,“ HERE.

Header image: St. Dunston in the East Church Garden, London

  • Partners is the country’s oldest non-sectarian nonprofit providing services to preserve and activate sacred spaces as places of worship, history, and vibrant community hubs.

    Partners for Sacred Places website HERE.

  • Services include:

    • Feasibility Studies

    • Capital Campaigns

    • Space Assessments for maximizing facility use and partnership

    • Measuring community impact

    • Maximizing your building as a community resource and asset

    See robust list of services and projects at “Our Services” tab on Partners’ website.

  • Full description of Consulting, Community Engagement, and Programs HERE.