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 despair

  • 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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HumanGood

Pleasanton, CA​

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

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Concord United Methodist Church

Concord, CA

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Sympara is guiding a small group on an exploration of models of property reuse as the church considers how to best leverage its site 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

Online

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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

Online

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Why is it so hard for congregations to die? Sympara's free Zoom series features conversations between cofounder Daniel Pryfogle and pastor and counselor Rick Mixon, who explore the struggle and promise of institutional death through a rich composting of theology, psychology and personal history. Learn more.

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Conversations on Sacred/Civic Placemaking

Online

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Amid the struggles of religious and civic institutions, third places are emerging on religious properties. These are spaces to work out what it means to be neighbors and citizens and even creators of more just, equitable and sustainable communities. This free Zoom series explores the convergence of civic engagement, community design and prophetic action with religious leaders, community organizers, developers, social entrepreneurs, architects and others. Learn more.

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