Selected Past Projects

Network 21: Expanding Leadership in the 21st Century

A five-year collaborative project with OIKOSNET, a global network of ecumenical training centers, designed to create new opportunities for leadership using global electronic communication. (1998–2003) Download full report (184 KB)

Faith-Based Leadership in Health and Human Service Organizations

A three-year project designed to encourage health and human service leaders to express and integrate faith values into their work as managers, conducted in collaboration with the Ecumenical Working Group, a consortium of eight denominations in the United States. (2000–2002)

Community Health Leadership:
Developing Excellence in Senior Service Leaders Program

A collaborative project in collaboration with the California Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (CAHSA), the Stanford Geriatric Education Center, and Sunny View Center for Ethics. This leadership program is designed to supplement and enhance skills of leaders in health care organizations in applying values in daily decision-making. (2002–2003)

CCM: Christian Community of Mesoamerica

A collaborative three-year project with Comunidad Cristiana Mesoamericana (CCM - Christian Mesoamerican Community), a network of seventeen faith-based organizations in Central America. This collaboration grew out of the common interest of all partners in utilizing the expertise of member organizations in a peer shared-learning model focusing on leadership. (2001–2003) Download full report (244 KB)

Lutheran Volunteer Corps—East Bay

Vesper Society was part of a mobilization team that established a volunteer house in the East Bay modeled after the national Lutheran Volunteer Corps. Volunteers, living together for one year, are assigned placement with nonprofit organizations to work for social justice and the underserved. (2002–2004)

Faith-Based Organizations and the Global Internet

A global invitational consultation that explored how the Internet impacts convening, collaboration and leadership in faith-based organizations in different cultures around the world. (2001)

Europe-US Relations Conference Series

A two-conference series sought to build foundations for stability, security, and peace by bringing people together for open-minded discussion on a critical topic, the renewal of the transatlantic partnership. (2001)

Venture 21: Assessing Venture Philanthropy

A comprehensive program that provided useful, balanced and unbiased information on the new and emerging field of venture philanthropy for human service organizations. (2000–2001) Download full report (592 KB)

Visualizing Guatemala in the 21st Century: A Roundtable for Prosperity in the Americas

The Guatemala Roundtable Project convened representatives of different sectors of society to participate in informal, off-the-record conversations. The purpose of these talks was the development of a national vision and collaborative strategies to strengthen democracy. (1998–1999)