To help facilitate these changes, Partners worked with
the parish leadership to develop a job description for a
new position, Outreach and Development Coordinator. This
individual will be repsonsible for identifying new funding
opportunities and building strategic relationships with
St. Francis’ stakeholders in the neighborhood, the city,
and across the country. As St. Francis looks toward its
future – and the future of the community that it calls home
– the parish strives to identify and implement innovative
strategies to sustain its presence, increase its value to
the community, and restore its buildings so that they can
provide space to serve parishioners and neighbors.
And finally, at Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, in
the heart of Center City, Partners suggested pulling together
a group of members to serve on a diaspora task force, which
is a necessary pre-requisite to launching a successful capital
campaign. A team of three to five individuals, including
longstanding members of the church, as well as others who
have relevant experience in research and outreach, were
responsible for identifying, reaching out to, and cultivating
relationships with the church’s diaspora, which included
individuals or couples that had been married, baptized, or
confirmed in the church and descendants of prominent
members and faith leaders