Projects.

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

Projects are opportunities to leverage assets — physical, financial, social and cultural 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 facilitating a church-wide discernment process to create a common vision for redevelopment of church property for social impact. The process will lead to a request for proposals for a development partner.

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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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St. James Episcopal Church

Alexandria, LA

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Sympara is taking a small group of lay leaders on an exploration of models of property reuse as the church considers how to best leverage its multiple parcels for social impact. 

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Sympara Asset-Mapping App

Everywhere

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Sympara has developed a web-based app that helps community leaders identify, map and connect resources to solve problems. The app is in beta mode. Take a test drive by signing up here. 

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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's Zoom-based series features conversations between cofounder Daniel Pryfogle and pastor and counselor Rick Mixon, who explore the challenge and opportunity of institutional death through a rich composting of theology, psychology and personal history. Learn more.