Community development strategies, particularly ones that are asset-based, place-based, and culturally appropriate and responsible
Community organizing, leadership development, and servant leadership
Community engagement methods
Ministry development and evaluation
Contemplative and resilient activism, spiritual formation, and sustainable spiritual practices
Collaboration, partnership and alliance development, and coalition building
Restorative justice strategies, cultural healing, cultural survival, cultural integrity, and cultural heritage preservation and education
Ethnographic research, oral histories, participatory action research, and storytelling
Mapping household and community assets and resources
Asset building strategies, including “alternative” solidarity economics and “sustainable” development strategies
Sabbath Economics, Watershed Discipleship, and related ministries, project development, and evaluation
Public policy analysis, development, and advocacy strategies
Entrepreneurship, business, and nonprofit organizational development, including cooperatives and social enterprises
Creative, cooperative, entrepreneurship, and/or innovation ecosystems development
Business planning, including marketing plan development, budget development and financial planning, exploring legal structures, and access to capital and markets