New Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

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Permalink Reply by Christina Deady on February 12, 2009 at 2:21pm

hi.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Hoskins on May 13, 2009 at 2:56pm

The value faith based organizations bring to stabilizing communities is invaluable. They are the trusted advisors so many other community based organziations seek to become for residents. The President's office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships should help to further underline the connection between neighborhoods and the faith community in a way we've not seen with prior administrations. I'm hopeful this is the start of a major movement that will position churches as necessary partners in neighborhood stabilization strategies and not just an after thought.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fernando Robbins on September 10, 2009 at 11:08pm

Karen I think you just wrote the next MasterCard commercial without knowing it. "Faith based organizations bringing stabilization to their communities...Priceless"

I must say I agree 100%. If it where not for the Carew brothers and a handful of commited volunteers from 4 local churches (Catholic, Methodist, Christian, and Presbyterian), we at Frontier Housing, Inc. in Morehead, KY would not be celebrating our 35th anniversary this year. Founded in 1974, Frontier became a nonprofit housing provider. Now 35 years later, we are still deeply rooted in our community and service area here in rural, eastern Kentucky as a homebuilder, lender, credit counselor, and homebuyer educator. For more information about us, our mission, and what has taken place over the last 35 years, check us out on the web at http://www.frontierhousing.org. Faith based organizations have been very valuable to our efforts and will hopefully be very valuable to other nonprofits across this great nation.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Zavala on May 27, 2009 at 2:28pm

I like it alot. Why not get services from someone you already feel compelled to share challenges with regardless of affiliation? That said, my primary concern would be that I have seen a few instances where the parent in this dialog is as unwise as the child, and too much is placed on hope, albeit, neverending, instead of sound technical advisement. Ideally we should be an obvious sounding board to aid this collaboration where expertise is often lacking. May be the best competition for our orgs to make us collectively stronger.

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