A Hartford Institute for Religion Research report looked at 7 communities, its congregations, community partners, and citizens to see how they were making a difference in the lives of the people living there.

"Throughout the nation, more than 300,000 congregations provide a point of gathering, worship, and community engagement for the roughly half of Americans who participate on a regular basis in them. . . . The sheer pervasiveness of these organizations makes them impossible to ignore for anyone who is looking for ways to mobilize energy toward the good of communities. What we will see in the pages to follow is that they are already remarkably involved in serving both their own members and the larger community...."

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• Doing Good in American Communities:Congregations & Service Organizations Working Together (A Research Report from the Organizaing Religious Work Project) Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary, Professor Nancy T. Ammerman, Project Director
  

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• Chicago Report (with charts) 
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