Congregations open up their buildings to serve children, the hungry, the homeless and others in need. Sacred places stabilize neighborhoods, strengthen commercial districts and significantly add to the economic health of our communities. All of this is endangered, however, when congregations can no longer afford to maintain these aging buildings. Partners has developed a family of highly-acclaimed resources to help congregations connect better to their communities, raise capital funds in new ways and preserve their historic building for future generations. We are the nation's only non-sectarian, nonprofit organization dedicated the sound stewardship and active community use of America's older religious properties.

Our work has taken us to Austin, Texas this week!

We are excited to have a team working in Austin, Texas surveying available space in sacred places that could be used by performing arts groups that need a home!

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has provided support for Partners for Sacred Places to perform a three-city study on the space uses and needs of performing artists and organizations. Austin was selected as one of the three cities. We are fortunate to work in collaboration with the Austin Creative Alliance. This survey is the first phase of developing new models for providing effective spaces for artists and organizations through the use of historic sacred places.