Why It Matters

We believe that a city’s faith community has vast untapped resources that can help renew a city when linked through collaboration and partnership in a multi-sector approach that connects neighborhoods, business, government, nonprofit groups, and others. 

Peter Drucker says “the only institution capable of re-civilizing our broken cities is the church.  Therefore, our task is to build the capacity of the church to function as one seamless church partner alongside other sectors in the task of civic renewal.”

Local churches and faith-based non-profits are at the center of this strategy to renew urban communities—to leverage the power of these local institutions to socially and spiritually renew the lives in these urban environments.  It is the role of a local leadership foundation (LLF) to bring about this kind of collaboration, and it is the role Leadership Foundations to support that work, and unite the global movement of LLFs for greater impact.

“I believe there should be a call to a new kinds of Renaissance – A Transformation.  We need committed leadership that… binds together all the agencies and organizations, buries turf issues and individual kingdoms and acts as a single body.”
~ C. Fred Fetterolf, past president and COO, ALCOA