The FaithX Project
Helping Congregations Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times Times
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Mission
We help faith communities survive and thrive in challenging times through data-grounded discernment, missional opportunity assessment, and missional strategy development. FaithX serves all congregations and faith-based organizations, without regard to denomination or religion.
Notes from the nonprofit
We are a faith-based consulting, research, and resource development practice. We work with all denominations and faith traditions.
Ruling year
2017
President
Rev. Kenneth W. Howard
Senior Associate Consultant
Mary Francis
Main address
9603 Deereco Rd Suite 386
Lutherville, MD 21094-0386 USA
EIN
81-4488713
NTEE code
Single Organization Support (X11)
Adult, Continuing Education (B60)
Nonprofit Management (S50)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
In order to effectively engage the rapidly changing neighborhoods they serve in turbulent times, congregations (and the judicatories that support them) must develop the capability to rapidly learn the story of those neighborhoods and the people who live in them, in order to rapidly and experimentally develop adaptive strategies to address neighborhood needs and aspiration.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting
+Missional Consulting for faith-based communities and the organizations that support them, specializing in data-grounded missional assessment and strategy development, strategic missional opportunity forecasting, congregational vitality and sustainability analysis, congregational and community development and redevelopment, and leadership transition.
+Coaching, conferences, and training for faith leaders related to the above topics.
FaithX Publishing
Books and other publications dealing with the future of faith communities and organizations, including conflict transformation.
FaithX Research & SHERM Journal
+Original and curated research dealing with emergent issues affecting religion, faith, and faith-based communities.
+Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERM Journal): a biannual, not-for-profit, free peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes the latest social-scientific, historiographic, and ecclesiastic research on religious institutions and their ministerial practices.
FaithXperimental Blog
The official blog of FaithX (subscribe from our website or Facebook page.
Congregational Scholarship Fund
Donation-based scholarships to partially underwrite the cost of consulting, coaching and other services for faith leaders and the-based communities and organizations they serve.
Where we work
Awards
High Impact Award for Mapping and Mitigating Systemic Racism 2022
Esri
Affiliations & memberships
Datastory 2017
Episcopal Church Foundation 2017
Presbyterian Foundation 2022
Esri 2017
Photos
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of downloads of the organization's materials and explanations
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Ethnic and racial groups, Religious groups
Related Program
FaithX Publishing
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of accolades/recognition received from third-party organizations
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is a cumulative metric.
Number of multi-year contracts received
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of participants attending course/session/workshop
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Webinars
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Congregations, Judicatories, and Denominations
Number of organizational partners
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
FaithX Strategic Missional Consulting
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
2022 partners (8 to date) currently include: Datastory, Episcopal Church Foundation, Esri, Gathering of Leaders, Global Center for Religious Research, Jubilee Impact Fund, Presbyterian Foundation.
Number of blog posts
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
FaithXperimental Blog
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
2020: 52 posts on FaithX blog, 7 on Episcopal Church Foundation blog
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
FaithX helps congregations survive and thrive in turbulent times by providing them with data-grounded tools and strategies for rapid, deep, and thorough assessment of neighborhood needs, aspirations, and missional opportunities, as well as their own vitality, sustainability, and resources, and rapidly prototype adaptive missional strategies.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We use tools such as MapDash for Faith Communities (by Datastory) and our own Congregational Vitality Assessment and strategic missional planning process to help congregations and judicatories better understand their neighborhoods and themselves, so the they can ground their experience-based intuitive discernment in demographic and analytic data.
One problem we face is that the congregations who need our data-grounded discernment services the most (small congregations) can afford them the least.
In response, we have made our Congregational Vitality Assessment tool available free to all congregations, and do some limited fundraising to "scholarship" some congregation. To donate to our small church scholarship fund: http://faithx.net/donate
But because our ability to fundraise is limited, we are seeking partnerships with foundations that can underwrite some of the costs to small congregations. To inquire about partnerships with your foundation or organization, contact us at: [email protected]
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our consultants each have more than 25 years experience in ministry development, congregational redevelopment, consulting, coaching, research, and resource development. We employ tools and strategies not available elsewhere.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We are now addressing issues of vitality and sustainability in more than 30 denominations, more than 70 judicatories, and more than 500 congregations. Our plan to make these services more broadly available both in ecumenical and interfaith contexts.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
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The FaithX Project
Board of directorsas of 11/01/2023
Rev. Kenneth Howard
The FaithX Project, Inc.
Term: 2016 - 2023
Darren Slade
Global Center for Religious Research
David B Maglott
Public Health Service (retired)
Katie Romano Griffin
All Souls Unitarian Church
Lorenzo Lebrija
TryTank Experimental Laboratory
Lawrence Clark
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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