What resources of potential faith-based partners match the needs of the new program?
This question is key because the answer depends on who gets to answer. Officials from government and secular non-profits often think congregations have a pool of volunteers and the ability to raise and direct funds. Congregations, on the other hand, believe they provide moral support and spiritual content. Many hope to receive new funds to forward their social ministries. National studies are just beginning to show the available capacity of congregations, but the picture is still very sketchy. One of the more important facts we have learned in Indianapolis is that even good numbers from serious research can be misleading. For instance, the average, or mean, congregation in Indianapolis has about 400 membersthat is, when we added up all the congregational members in Indianapolis and divided by the number of congregations, we got 400 members per congregation. The median number of congregational members, however, is 150that is, when we lined up every congregation from largest to smallest
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