How Is The Training Structured?
Who Leads the Training?
What Resources Do Participating Congregations Get?
Who Were Previous New Dollars/New Partners Sponsors?
Where Are Current New Dollars/New Partners Trainings?
Overview of Evaluation Findings (2003-2005)
Other Key Findings

What Resources Do Participating Congregations Get?

Congregations will receive a set of resources that includes:

• The acclaimed Complete Guide to Capital Campaigns for Historic Churches and Synagogues
• A guide to help congregations make their case for new capital support, Your Sacred Place Is a Community Asset: A Tool Kit to Attract New Resources and Partners
• A hands-on guide for seasonal maintenance planning, The Maintenance Manual
• The Guide to Serving Families in Sacred Places that helps congregations take full advantage of their assets, including buildings, in serving children and families

Who Can Sponsor a New Dollars/New Partners Training?

New Dollars/New Partners can be especially valuable to a national or local denomination office that seeks to 1) supplement its own resources by providing this training to selected congregations or local judicatories; or 2) invest in congregations that offer promise for new or renewed ministry in a repaired and renovated building.

New Dollars/New Partners can be highly useful to a preservation or community organization that wants to strengthen neighborhoods by building the capacity of key institutions - including faith-based organizations -- to link with each other and sustain their community presence. It can also lay the foundation for the provision of technical assistance and other services to sacred places over the long term.

One of the primary responsibilities of the sponsoring entity will be to work with Partners to secure funding to cover the training costs. The base cost of the training is $24,000, plus travel and lodging expenses for Partners' staff. This cost includes eight days of Partners' staff time, plus the time of other training consultants, all resource publications and handouts. Partners recommends that participating congregations each contribute $500 toward the training costs, recognizing that they have a greater stake in training results when they make a financial investment in the process.

In addition, the sponsoring entity will:

• Identify and reach congregations that can benefit from the program
  
• Link congregations to local groups that can provide technical support such as assessments of repair needs and building conditions
  
• Coach and mentor participating congregations during the training process.
  
• Fund and manage all meeting arrangements for the training program.
  

What Does the Sponsor Get?

The training package includes:

• 11 days of Partners' staff time to conduct an orientation for interested congregations, conduct a coaches training and present 4 training modules
• 5 days of Partners' staff time to:
• plan program, including all necessary documents (invitations, press releases, contracts, action steps, etc.)
• meet with potential funders
• coach sponsor's staff and volunteer coaches between training modules
• utilize  an Internet communication link (listserv) during and after the training
• the time of other expert training consultants
• all resource publications and handouts
• complimentary 1 year Partners' membership for every congregation and the sponsoring agency