VIP Overview
OVERVIEW
Participating congregations will form a Parish Vitality Improvement VIP Team to lead the congregation through the 3-year program and beyond.
FEATURES
Cohort-Based Model
Data-Grounded Assessment and Strategy Development
Providing tools and consultation that enable congregations and their dioceses to ground their missional discernment in objective data, including assessing their own vitality and sustainability strengths and weaknesses, identifying missional opportunities and challenges in the neighborhoods they service, and discovering and addressing their own blind spots and biases. Each diocese will receive a subscription to MapDash for Faith Communities, the Missional Opportunity Index, the Congregational Vitality Assessment Judicatory Platform, and will participate in the Judicatory Vitality Assessment (development to be funded by this grant).
Vision-Grounded Experimentation
Communities of Guided Learning and Practice
Resourcing and Resource Development
We will bring to congregations and their dioceses critical tools to assist them in strategic missional assessment and planning, including: (a) MapDash for Faith Communities, an interactive, online demographic analytic platform, developed with our affiliate, Datastory; (b) the Congregational Vitality Assessment, developed in partnership with the Episcopal Church Foundation; and the soon-to-be-developed Judicatory Vitality Assessment.
Pay-It-Forward Financial Model
Diffusion of Innovation
Systemic Sustainability
*The VIP project is made possible by a grant from Trinity Wall Street Philanthopies.