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The Four Learning Tables

Small groups from multiple organizations, each exploring a focused question and collaborating on real challenges.

Join a Learning Table around a question that matters to your work. Each Table brings together members from multiple organizations to explore a focused question and collaborate on real challenges.

With support from the TNN Convener, Tables develop a learning plan that might include site visits, shared reading, guest contributors, peer consultation, or testing ideas in their own contexts. Each Table shares useful learning with the wider network.

Members may join more than one Table, and colleagues from the same organization may join different ones.

  1. Recognizing Neighborhood Thriving

    How do we discern whether congregational engagement is contributing to neighborhood thriving, and how does that shape our guidance?

  2. Collaboration & Trust Building

    How do we accompany congregations into reciprocal relationships with neighbors and community partners?

  3. Congregational Culture Change

    How does neighborhood commitment become part of a congregation’s shared life and practice?

  4. Movement Building

    How do we connect and co-create a movement of faith-based organizations for greater impact?

Four Tables, one connected network

Members bring

  • Questions from their work
  • Experience and local wisdom
  • Relationships
  • 01 Recognizing Neighborhood Thriving
  • 02 Collaboration & Trust Building
  • 03 Congregational Culture Change
  • 04 Movement Building
Learning shared across Tables Coordination and organizational support from Parish Collective

The wider network gains

  • Discoveries and open questions
  • Tools, frameworks, and stories for the Network Library
  • Connections for collaboration
Each Table shapes its own focused learning question and plan. Parish Collective’s TNN Convener helps Tables share emerging insights, connects members with relevant experience, and follows up on opportunities to work together. Tables will form around members’ interests, shared challenges, and capacity, so not every learning area is guaranteed to run, and Tables may differ in size, activities, and support.

Why participate in TNN rather than start a separate affinity group?

You may already have colleagues you want to learn alongside, or a focused question you’d like to explore through a grant-funded affinity group. TNN offers another possibility: joining a growing network of organizations working at the intersection of congregational life and neighborhood thriving.

Rather than building a new group from the ground up, you can connect with practitioners across different organizations and contexts, draw on relationships and resources already present in the network, and participate in a Learning Table focused on questions relevant to your work.

Parish Collective provides coordination and shared infrastructure so participants can spend more of their time learning, collaborating, and putting ideas into practice.

And TNN isn’t intended to end when the grant does. We’re building relationships, shared knowledge, and opportunities for collaboration that can continue beyond a single funding cycle.

The invitation isn’t simply to join another affinity cohort. It’s to become part of a network that can make all of us more capable of the work we’re called to do.