Community Renewal Inc

“The organization does not have any committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body.”

“Form 990 is prepared by an independent cpa and a draft is provided to the executive director for review. Upon his approval of the draft, a copy is emailed to the entire board prior to filing.”

“The organization does not compensate any officers and does not have any key employees.”

“Governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available upon request.”

“Community renewal, inc. Seeks to mobilize the body of christ to bring healing, development, and the good news to the community of tucson, especially the poor, marginalized, vulnerable and broken. The organization is responsive to the needs of the community, and so offers different courses and seminars within each major program area from time to time. Collaboration: in accomplishing these purposes we are working on collaboration without compromise. If we work with a secular group we would need to have common purposes but not common beliefs. This would have to be defined before we start into the collaborative partnership or relationship and mutual respect established. We also dare to teach others how to do collaboration without compromise within the community. Many of the afflictions of our community cannot be resolved without a broad range of contributors to the solutions needed. For the faith community they would have to have individuals with mature identities and mature group identities so they are not seduced by money, sex, power, arrogance, pride and/or position. The goal would be to remain loyal to the god of the bible and all that he is, but accepting of diverse beliefs in collaboration. Counseling: one of the most important factors contributing to the stability and development of our community is the health of families. One of community renewal's mission statements is, "we all know that a healthy person needs a healthy family, and a healthy family needs a healthy community." (bakke) in this organization, a priority is given to community leaders and the working poor or the gap group for counseling. Individual and family counseling is offered, as well as classes on relational skills and seminars on family issues. We are also working to help establish healthy counselors, and counseling agencies in our community. Consulting: much of the service rendered is consulting with other leaders and organizations. We are under many demands to respond to the needs in this area, and try to be responsive to those needs the best we can. Neighborhood involvement: the organization sponsors meetings to help churches catch a vision of how they can get involved in the needs of their neighborhoods and develop more of a parish ministry with some of the "under-resourced" in our community. * daily meetings are held with leaders in the community. Those meetings have to do with collaboration and networking over problems and issues concerning the well-being of the community. These meetings are with leaders from business, government, and the faith community. This is where most consulting takes place. * classes and seminars are offered on community issues and development. * the organization facilitates a monthly para-church meeting called the tucson coalition of compassion ministries. * community renewal partners with j17 ministries and 4tucson to facilitate a pastor's prayer summit, para-church prayer summit, and leadership meeting. * once every month, community renewal has a partnership with j17 ministries to facilitate tucson ministry alliance to educate the faith community on the problems and "under-resourced" populations of tucson, and celebrate what god is doing in our city. * community renewal participates in an annual prayer summit with pastors, and an annual prayer walk. * we are working on establishing restorative processes in other areas besides the criminal justice system. We also did a training with the middle schools on restorative justice practices to break the pipeline between schools and prison. This is the one of the reformation parts of our mission and ministry. We are also working on publishing a book on "psalm 128 and the "4 life tasks." * we are always working on leadership development for new and existing nonprofit organizations. * one of the areas we are working on is volunteerism with college students and retirees. * we have been working to help the poor of our community, through relief and empowerment. This is especially true”

“Accrual to cash adjustment -200.”