Kingdom Causes // National/Regional Partnerships

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Kingdom Causes is committed to actively pursuing broader coalitions, other regional efforts, national conversations and other intermediary organizations in order to learn from and partner with those entities.

National Partners:

	Barnabas LA www.barnabasgroup.org: The Barnabas Group is dedicated to being a partnership of Christian Leaders who are committed to change their world and build God's Kingdom through their irresistible lifestyles and influential works of service with the mission of advancing God's Kingdom on earth by providing growing ministries with the time, talent and resources available from The Barnabas Group. Regional groups are available nationwide and new groups are forming each quarter to accomplish a wider global reach and impact. KC and Barnabas LA are partnering around ministries opportunities.
	Christian Community Development Association www.ccda.org: The mission of CCDA (non-profit) is to inspire, train, and connect Christians who seek to bear witness to the Kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities with the vision of holistically restored communities with Christians fully engaged in the process of transformation. KC and CCDA are partnering around training and resources.
	Communities First Association www.communitiesfirstassociation.org: Communities First Association is a network of professional Christian colleagues with a common heart and role: Using Asset Based Community Development methods, the Communities First Association: transforms a growing number of communities and engages Christians and Churches in their community change story. KC and CFA are partnering around ABCD and coaching.
	Mission Increase www.missionincrease.org: Mission Increase Foundation is a private operating foundation whose goal is to transform lives for Christ by providing grants and training to local Christian ministries to improve their financial stability and enhance their ability to raise donations for themselves. Mission Increase Foundation provides training and matching cash grants to over three hundred ministries each year in areas such as in fundraising, board governance and strategic planning. All training is free of charge and is done one-on-one, through workshops, and in small group debriefings. Our training and grant recipients have included homes for unwed mothers, homeless shelters, rescue missions, youth services and many other Christian ministries sharing the love of Christ through their words and deeds. KC and Mission Increase are partnering around sharing of resources, training and funding.
	Urban Youth Workers Institute www.uywi.org: Urban Youth Workers Institute exists to strengthen a new generation of global urban leaders for transformational ministry with a vision of building transformational relationships with 20,000 urban leaders by 2010. KC and UYWI are partnering around training, resources, networking and mentoring.

Regional Partners:

	Action Ventura County www.actionvc.org: Action VC engages Christians in service to tranfsorm their communities. Their mission is to partner Christian volunteers with local agencies to meet community needs and bring about positive community transormation. Their primary focuses include seniors, disabled residents, under-resources families, the homeless population and at-risk youth. KC and ACTION are partnering around networking, sharing of resources/events and opportunities to serve the local city.
	Blood For Missions www.bloodformissions.org : Blood for Missions (innovative fundraising for missions and charities) is a non-profit organization partnering with churches, university and high schools who commit to host and promote quality blood drives. In exchange, a blood bank makes a donation of $25/per pint collected to the host's chosen mission or charity. This concept combines the two worthy purposes to compound the benefits: for the blood drive host, it supports their chosen mission or charity financially with $0 out-of-pocket expense, for blood banks, it minizmizes the intrinsic risk they take with each blood drive while maximixing their efficiency to collect blood. KC and Blood for Missions are partnering around networking/connecting of resources and opportunities for blood drives in local communities/neighborhoods.
	Prayer Command Post www.prayercommandpost.org: The Prayer Command Post is made up of people who love God and love to serve Him in various ministries that bring glory to His Name and also bearing fruit in personal, corpoate and lead transformation. They focus on intercession, networking, equipping/training, communications, healing, city-reaching, community & unity and consulting mostly in the Southern CA region. KC and Prayer Command Post are partnering around networking, sharing of events/resources/opportunities for prayer in/for local communities, etc.