Finding Homes for Their Dreams: Strategies Founders and Program Initiators Use to Position and Sustain Faith-Based Programs

This grounded theory study of 15 faith-based programs in four urban cities examines how initiators and founders find homes for their visions of addressing unmet community needs, especially those of children and their families. Founders can be congregations, individuals, or groups with diverse charac...

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Published in:Families in society 2007-01, Vol.88 (1), p.19-29
Main Authors: Netting, F. Ellen, O'Connor, Mary Katherine, Singletary, Jon
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