Workshops and Conferences
Partners staff will be speaking at several conferences and meetings this year. If you are interested in scheduling a presentation by the Partners’ staff, please contact Elizabeth Ann Terry eterry at sacredplaces dot org, Director of Training.
See Schedule.
New Dollars Trainings
Partners staff will be conducting New Dollars trainings across the country. If you are interested in having New Dollars/New Partners come to your area, please contact Elizabeth Ann Terry eterry at sacredplaces dot org, Director of Training.
See Schedule.
Community Events
Partners participated in the citywide preservation conference organized by the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia on Friday, May 15, 2009. More information about the event, “A Sense of Place: Preserving Philadelphia Neighborhoods,” is available here.
Partners welcomed U.S. Senator Arlen Specter to Arch Street United Methodist Church October 1, 2007. View the invitation here.
Partners’ Philadelphia Regional Fund for Sacred Places co-sponsored a mayoral forum in Philadelphia’s Old City with the Gesu Institute, the Robert Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
The final report on Partners’ Halo Effect study is now available. Click here to read it!
In Johnstown, PA, Partners is working with local community leaders and residents to find new uses for three significant historic churches that were closed in 2005
The final report on Partners’ Exemplars Project is now available on line. Click here for the full report from the Public Health Management Corporation.
Partners has launched a new research project on arts in sacred places. You can read about it here, in the Philadelphia Inquirer!
Partners in the News
Listen to radio interviews featuring Partners staff
- “Creatively Speaking!”, WRTI in Philadelphia. Archived program online at www.wrti.org.
- WHYY , Philadelphia. Archived story online at www.thenextmayor.com.
Read articles that have appeared in newspapers and magazines
- Decline in Places of Worship Now Evident, Metro Philadelphia
- Arts & Congregations Project, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Catholic Standard
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Forth Worth Star-Telegram
- Newsweek: “A Sacred Mission”
- North Star
- Philadelphia Business Journal
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation
- North Texas Catholic
- North Texas United Methodist Reporter
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Portland Press Herald
- Rochester, MN Post Bulletin
Read online features
Sacred Places Magazine
Download and view full text of an issue of Sacred Places: Summer 2008
To view the archives, click here.