Publications

Case Studies

Rebuilding Lives and Providing the Gift of Work Through Social Enterprise
2024
The Inside Out Network: A Platform for Facilitation Success for Returning Citizens
2023
Street Sweep Employment Program: A Model for Church and Community Collaboration with Faith-Based Organizations
2023
Addressing Social Isolation and Other Social Determinants of Health. The MetroHealth-Open Table Collaboration
2023
Church and Community (C2) Leadership Institute: A Unique Capacity-Building Program for Community-focused Faith Leaders
2023
The Association of Christian Childcare Administrators
2022
A Case Study of Harvest of Hope: A Faith-Based Child Welfare Intermediary
2021
The Crosswinds – Open Table Collaboration: An Aftercare Model for Runaway and Homeless Youth
2020
Connecting In-Prison Programs to Prisoner Reentry and Aftercare: A Case Study of Restoration Outreach of Dallas Ministries.
2020
Program on Prosocial Behavior, Baylor University, with Sung Joon Jang
Open Table: Leveraging Relationships to Transform Communities.
2020
THE HOUSE DC: THE POWER OF PLACE
2018
INCORPORATING FAITH & WORKS WITHIN A HEALTHCARE NETWORK
2017
American Values, Mental Health, and Using Technology in the Age of Trump
September 2017
2017
This study presents preliminary results from The Baylor Religion Survey Wave V, a random sample of 1,501 adults, which was administered by the Gallup Organization in the spring of 2017, during the first months of Trump’s Presidency.
ASSESSING THE FAITH-BASED RESPONSE TO HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA: FINDINGS FROM ELEVEN CITIES
2017
What Keeps Them From Coming Back?
The Indiana Faith and Character Training Initiative
2017
The Ohio Adolescent Health Centers: A Collaborative Model for Sexual Risk Avoidance Education
2016
Multi-State Mentoring Research: The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise’s Violence Free Zone (VFZ) Initiative
2015
Stronger Families, Stronger Society: An Analysis of The RIDGE Project, Inc.
A Case Study of The RIDGE Project
2014
Community Transformation in West Dallas: Developing and Measuring Collective Impact Initiatives
2014
Mentoring Children of Prisoners: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of Amachi Texas
Special Report by Byron R. Johnson, 2014
2014
Launched in 2000, and in less than a decade, Amachi has been the driving force behind a national movement to mentor children of prisoners.
Recidivism Reduction and Return on Investment:
An Empirical Assessment of the Prison Entrepreneurship
A Case Study of Prison Entrepreneurship Program
2013
Community Transformation in West Dallas: A Sustained Collective Among Churches, Faith-based Organizations and Government
A Case Study of Serve West Dallas
2012
Our Best Hope for Persistent Prisoner Transformation: A Case Study of Out4Life
2011
Building Relationships with Prisoners, Their Families, and Churches: A Case Study of Angel Tree
2011
Tracking the Milwaukee Violence Free Zone Initiative
2010
Richmond Violence Free Zone Initiative
2010
The Generating Leverage Multiplying Impact:
A Case Study of Mission Increase Foundation’s Blended Model of Charitable Investment
2010
The Milwaukee Violence Free Zone Initiative
2009
The Latino Coalition for Faith and Community Initiatives
2008
Ohio Compassion Capital Program
2008
Not By Faith or Government Alone: Rethinking the Role of Faith-Based Organizations
2008
The OneStar Foundation’s Texas Demonstration Project
2008
The Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives
2007
The Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives
2005
With funding from the Templeton Foundation, The Baylor Religion Survey is the most extensive and sensitive study of religion ever conducted, linking up with the pioneering surveys conducted by Rodney Stark and Charles Y. Glock in the 1960s. With the Baylor Religion Survey, we were able to dig deeper into American religious attitudes, behaviors and beliefs than previously possible. Preliminary findings related to the measurement of religion, the nature of religious belief, the relationship between religion and moral and political attitudes, and religious spending habits were released in Wave 1 at the National Press Club on September 11, 2006, in this research report.