We don’t work alone.
Here are some of the resources and organizations that I am involved in, or inspired by, that may help you in your work. You may also be interested in these videos, podcasts, and articles.
Church Buildings and Land
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Good Futures Accelerator Course
Good Futures Accelerator is a dynamic and proven course that empowers congregations to align money and mission by exploring how to creatively use their church buildings and property to further their mission and build financial resilience.
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How to Guides
How to Rent Well, How to Develop Well, How to Partner Well, How to End Well, How to Sell Well, and What About Taxes guides help church leadership teams discuss and decide how to approach important aspects of managing church property.
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Threshold Sacred Development
Threshold Sacred Development brings together decades of property development experience with a deep knowledge and love of houses of worship to provide integrated and mission-aligned support along the entire development journey from imagination to construction to completion and beyond.
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Windows of Opportunity: Church Investment on Church Land
Bringing together ideas from both of Mark’s books, this position paper by RootedGood makes the case that church investment assets could be deployed for community development on church land.
Money & Impact Investing
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Money and Mission Alignment
Download a free, color version of the Money and Mission alignment matrix from Mark’s book, “We Aren’t Broke”
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Impact Investing Resource Guide
This free guide provides a list of resources and links to go deeper in understanding impact investing and learn more about putting investment money to work to make more good in the world.
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Global Impact Investing Network
The GIIN’s Faith-Based Investing repository is a curated set of research, case studies, webinars, books, and other resources to enable and motivate faith-based actors and organizations on impact investing through their theological underpinnings.