Projects.

Engaging religious communities and neighbors through education, consulting and placemaking.

Projects are opportunities to leverage assets — physical, financial, theological and relational resources — for the common good. As Sympara works with religious communities and neighbors, new possibilities emerge:

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• Solutions to loneliness and depression

• Dialogue and discovery across belief and background

• Public and private collaboration

• Personal agency and communal power to effect change

• Social capital maximized for social impact

Our current projects include:

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Greenwood Forest Baptist Church

Cary, NC

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Sympara is helping the congregation explore models of creative repurposing in order to activate underutilized space for the benefit of the wider community.

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HumanGood

Pleasanton, CA​

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Sympara is helping the nation's sixth largest nonprofit provider of senior housing and health care identify religious communities with properties suitable for development of workforce housing and other below-market-rate housing.

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Aging for the Common Good

Everywhere

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Sympara is hosting Zoom-based writing groups for older adults as they report on their lives with partner Senior Correspondent, sharing reflections essential to the well-being of individuals and society: the loss and discovery of identity through aging, the experience of aging in relationship to place, the evolution of a spirituality of aging, and the journey to embrace the role of elder. Learn more. 

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Congregational Death/Community Life

Everywhere​

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Why is it so hard for congregations to just die? And is there anything to this "life from death" thing? Sympara is offering a free Zoom-based series featuring conversations between cofounder Daniel Pryfogle and pastor and counselor Rick Mixon, who will explore the challenge and opportunity of institutional death through a rich composting of theology, psychology and personal history. Learn more.

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