Year-Round Involvement Network

Building a thriving city doesn’t happen in isolation—it grows stronger when we learn from one another. Across the country, leaders, organizations, and networks are making incredible strides in areas like School Connect, foster care support, and neighboring initiatives. These connections offer valuable insight, proven strategies, and encouragement for cities looking to deepen their impact. As a city leader, you don’t have to start from scratch—others have already paved the way, and we’d love to connect you with them. These names and emails are a resource to you -- please feel free to reach out to best serve your communities and cities

City Networks - Learning, Training, and Growing

• Eric Swanson - Leadership Network - [email protected], https://www.ericjswanson.com

  • Eric has a passion for engaging churches worldwide in the needs and dreams of their communities toward the end of spiritual and societal transformation.

• Glenn Barth - Good Cities - [email protected], https://goodcities.net

  • Discover, support, and serve vibrant city movements by building processes that create good cities.

Evangelism

• Eric Johnsen- Organic Outreach International - [email protected], http://www.organicoutreach.com

  • Organic Outreach® is about living the kind of life that naturally draws people to Jesus. It involves speaking the kinds of words that you use in ordinary conversations and that reveal the presence of a loving God. It means loving people in a way that is genuine. Organic Outreach® is all about sharing our faith in a way that is authentic, real, and feels natural to the people around us.

• Kevin Palau - Luis Palau Association (City Gospel Movements) - [email protected], https://citygospelmovements.org

  • Celebrate and accelerate collaborative gospel work in cities around the world.

Foster Care/Adoption

• Brian Mavis- America's Kids Belong- [email protected], https://americaskidsbelong.org

  • We empower leaders in government, faith-based, business, and creative sectors to end the crisis for kids in foster care – state by state.

• Jedd Medefind - Christian Alliance for Orphans - [email protected], https://cafo.org

  • CAFO unites 200+ respected organizations, churches and individuals worldwide to connect and equip Christians to care for orphans and vulnerable children

• Jill Sasser - Love Our Kids - [email protected], www.lovestanislauscounty.org/kids

  • Love Our Kids focuses on families affected by foster care and provides tangible ways you can help a family in need.

Neighboring

• Dave Runyan - The Art of Neighboring - [email protected], http://www.artofneighboring.com/

  • A few years ago, twenty-one churches in Arvada, Colorado united to start a neighboring movement in our community. We kept things simple and challenged the people in our congregations to take the next small step with their literal neighbors. The movement has spread, and to date over 1,000 churches are using the Art of Neighboring resources.

• Gabby - Love Our Neighbors - [email protected], www.lovestanislauscounty.org

  • Love Our Neighbors seeks to equip and inspire people to host neighborhood gatherings with the goal of forming deeper connections and a sense of belonging among neighbors.

School Partnerships

• Tracey Beal- School Connect, [email protected], https://www.schoolconnectaz.org/

  • School Connect helps build partnerships by engaging the faith community and collaborating with community partners to adopt local schools. We envision, network, train and coach community partners to build strong, sustainable relationships to support education through community involvement.