Effective - Good Futures will get the congregation to a viable idea for social enterprise using their building and/or property.
Efficient - It will take most churches about 9-12 months to complete the course.
Self-directed - The church works at its own pace.
Multi-format learning experience - Content and activities are accessed via printed materials, online videos, games, in-person group exercises and more.
Engages leaders AND the whole congregation - The core course is taken by a leadership team of about 5 people from each congregation. Exercises throughout the process help to engage the full congregation in what leaders are learning and what is emerging from the accelerator.
Excellent return on investment - Congregations that participated in the pilot are already making great strides towards a sustainable financial model and bringing in as much as $100,000 a year through new mission-aligned income.
The Foundation is arranging with RootedGood for a significant discount for the Good Futures Accelerator.
Please contact the Foundation office before purchasing the Good Futures Accelerator directly from RootedGood's website.
“This book is a must for any part of the church that fears it lacks adequate resources.”
- Walter Brueggemann
Mark Elsdon
AUTHOR, ENTREPRENEUR, SPEAKER
Mark Elsdon lives and works at the intersection of money and meaning as an entrepreneur, nonprofit executive, author, and speaker. He is the author of, We Aren’t Broke, about the use of faith-based property and investments for social enterprise and impact investing. Mark’s new book, Gone for Good? Negotiating the Coming Wave of Church Property Transition is now available.
Mark is cofounder of RootedGood, which supports catalytic and innovative church leaders working on property development, money and mission alignment, and social enterprise; executive director at Pres Houseand Pres House Apartments on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus; principal at Threshold Sacred Development; and past president of the board of directors for Working Capital for Community Needs, an impact investing fund that provides microfinance funding to the working poor in Latin America.
Mark has a BA in Psychology from the University of California – Berkeley, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin School of Business. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Mark is an avid cyclist and considers it a good year when he rides more miles on his bike than he drives in his car.
