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➤ Brookside CDC will facilitate and/or participate in affinity group discussions around these topics:

• reentry

• food co-operative

• transitional housing for high-risk offenders

• youth development

• family housing

➤ Brookside CDC commits to walking alongside any congregation as they (re)imagine what community development would look like for their faith community.

➤ ESC will lend experience and perspective as a Black congregation working in community and economic development with participating congregations.

➤ Working together with participants to create opportunities to engage with the proposed Jewel Human Services Project for Children and Youth.

➤ Connect participants with EMCC resources, drawing upon EMCC's experience in community and economic development and congregational partnerships.

➤ EMCC will participate in cohort training to share strategies and best practices with CCSl congregational leaders as they relate to community development and engagement.

➤ Exodus will leverage access to its congregational network.

➤ Exodus will facilitate relationships with key faith communities and neighborhoods engaged in work with refugees.

➤ Facilitate opportunities for congregations to participate in training and engagement with refugees.

➤ In neighborhoods where access to affordable homeownership is a demand, GIHFH will leverage its strengths in bringing access to the opportunity of homeownership through its pre-home buying education and unique mission of bringing people together of many faiths and corporate citizenry through volunteerism.

➤ Where the opportunity may arise in neighborhoods, GIHFH will commit to seeking locations for the expansion of its ReStores to provide good and promising jobs.

➤ HIPL staff will work together to connect congregations interested in pursuing climate change mitigation initiatives.

➤ HIPL will leverage their existing network of faith communities.

➤ HIPL will be available for trainings to share with congregations strategies and best practices for energy conservation measures in faith communities.

➤ Indy Black Chamber of Commerce will look to incorporate participants into existing programming.

➤ IBCC will work with congregational leaders, when time allows, to increase access to good and promising jobs in their neighborhoods.

➤ IBCC will serve in an advisory capacity to help participants increase the availability of good and promising jobs in their neighborhoods.

➤ By way of the Business Ownership Initiative (BOI) and Develop Indy, we can provide technical support and access to startup capital for new, growing, or transitioning businesses.

➤ Indy Chamber agrees to serve as a liaison to job opportunities for returning citizens, working directly with partners at Public Advocates for Community Re-Entry.

➤ Indy Chamber agrees to help identify sites where companies with good and promising jobs can locate and help market available sites for the purpose of increasing the availability of good & promising jobs in target areas.

➤ Indy Chamber will work to identify programs that focus on childcare, training, and transit.

➤ Offer financial literacy and homebuyer education classes; Matched Savings Accounts for Rental and Homeownership; Home Purchase Lending Products, Down Payment Assistance, Home Repair Lending, Community Lending, and access to the Equitable Transit-Oriented Development fund to partners involved in this partnership.

➤ INRC will work with partners to develop and offer opportunities for neighborhood-based teams to participate in customized asset-based community development training.

➤ INRC will offer ongoing technical assistance to neighborhood-based teams to identify and implement actions within their communities.

➤ IU Health Spiritual Care agrees to lend capacity and guidance to help CCSI develop an understanding of the Memphis Model and to train community members in ways to combat social isolation in order to improve social determinants of health.

➤ IU Health Spiritual Care agrees to provide an introduction to its network of faith communities to help identify target congregations for participation in programming.

➤ IU Health Spiritual Care agrees to explore partnerships and opportunities for collaboration between Cultivating Communities and the Mosaic Center, should both initiatives come to fruition.

➤ IU Health Spiritual Care agrees to support efforts to build capacities for faith communities and the neighborhoods that they are embedded in, utilizing assets, resources, and data relative to each cultural and geographic location.

➤ Engage congregations and religious institutions in identifying key neighborhoods for the greatest impact and respond to environmental needs that KIB can help to address. These might include tree plantings, green space, and other placemaking opportunities.

➤ LISC agrees to deploy its larger toolbox in target geographies (prioritize lending, grants, staff resources, etc.).

➤ LISC agrees to lend expertise on Social Determinants of Health as part of training for congregations.

➤ LISC agrees to connect faith organizations with others through LISC’s Community of Practice meetings and support work.

➤ Coordinate and lead at least one Service & Engagement day for each of the five years.

➤ Program Centers

➤ ARCH Program (Advocacy, Relationship, Case Management in High Schools)

➤ Polis will provide training and technical support to faith-based organizations and partners to increase their data literacy and support the collection, interpretation, and use of the data throughout the project to target resources, inform strategy and implementation, monitor progress, and measure impact.

➤ Polis will assess the program's impact. Polis will work with partners and congregations to refine logic models and data collection plans. Polis will utilize program data to describe program accomplishments by summarizing the outputs and short- and medium-term outcomes of the activities of each participating partner.

➤ Polis will leverage the SAVI Community Information System and the RUC 2.0 initiative to support partners in discovering and connecting with congregations that have a commitment to community-engaged work. To the extent possible, Polis will leverage the recently developed SAVI asset management system, which is a flexible data environment funded by Lilly Endowment and designed to link otherwise unrelated data for a rich resource of information about the assets in our community.

➤ Polis will provide data support to project partners and grantees.

➤ Polis will share findings of congregations and their networks learned through the RUC 2.0 project, and likewise, the CC partners will share findings from this initiative with the RUC 2.0 research team.

➤ Polis and ECDC agree to support efforts to build capacities for faith communities and the neighborhoods that they are embedded in, utilizing the assets, resources, and data relative to each cultural and geographic location.

➤ Shepherd will leverage its experience as a faith-based organization doing community development work to support congregations with training and in an advisory role as needed.

➤ Shepherd and CC staff will connect congregations and communities in their networks to one another in order to best support participating congregations' initiatives.

➤ Social Legends will support the implementation of the cohort training model by assisting to design and facilitate individual training sessions, coordinating facilitator engagement, and evaluating session outcomes.

➤ Resource Consulting

➤ Resource Matching Grants

➤ Education Events

➤ Congregational Resource Guide

➤ Interfaith Dialogue

➤ Building empathy between faiths, and facilitating interfaith encounters.

➤ Accredited ecumenical graduate school

➤ Graduate-level degree programs

➤ Leadership Team

➤ Faith Communities Navigator

➤ KI works to create a more just, equitable, human-centered world by nurturing youth and young adults to be leaders, critical thinkers, and doers.

➤ Our mission as the people of Broadway Church is to be a multicultural, Christian community that in its ministry seeks, welcomes, and values ALL people.