An AME church and a Latino congregation united their congregations and community outreach efforts.

2023 Lake Institute on Faith & Giving Distinguished Visitor, Simran Jeet Singh, is recognized thought leader on bias, empathy and justice.

Bishop Charley Hames, Jr. shares his perspective on giving trends and challenges in Black faith communities.

In this interview with Dr. William Enright, Founding Director of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, David P. King, PhD explores the backgrounds of Tom and Marjorie Lake, Bill Enright's ministerial career, and the start of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving.

A rural Tennessee church closes with one final, old-time singing and a donation to a Christian disaster relief agency.

An enterprising pastor in Wilson, North Carolina pushed his congregation to revive its nonprofit and launch a plan to improve seven properties.

Meredith McNabb writes about the unique abundance that can be found in rural US congregations in the today.

In this interview Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, we learn about the relationship between faith and giving in Sikhism.

Read the report from the 2023 Symposium on Philanthropy and the Black Church. This special event, co-hosted by the Center for the Church and the Black Experience at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, brought together 70 key leaders in philanthropy and faith to start a conversation about the “necessary collaborative” between philanthropy and Black religious institutions.

This case study from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity examines the work of faith-inspired leaders at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It shows how even small churches can play a role in holistic community flourishing that includes, but is not limited to, the “spiritual.”