Great communities are built by good neighbors who enjoy living, working and playing together. As a social network for faith experiences, FaithVillage offers a unique online neighborhood for collaboration among churches, causes, publishers, bloggers, colleges, media and church resource organizations who all share similar convictions and purposes. Our partnership opportunities are dedicated to creating an online space that is vibrant, compelling, purposeful, and even a little bit playful.
So explore our partnerships below, complete an application form or contact amber[at]faithvillage[.]com if you’re ready to take the relationship further. We’re ready for a commitment.
CHURCH PARTNERSHIP
Grow your church closer, deeper and wider. For free.
Robust churches are driven to build relationships, grow in their experience of Christ, engage their community, and transform their culture with loving action.
We totally get that.
That’s why we’ve designed our new social network for faith experiences precisely to help your church grow closer, deeper and wider.
FaithVillage surrounds an easy-to-use, yet powerful, social media platform with a village-full of content that will inspire, train and nurture your church. It’s good content and faith-friendly community in one convenient place, so your people can enjoy a single, compelling source for everything they need to fulfill your church’s vision. Did we mention it was free to churches?
LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Adopt FaithVillage for church-wide use as a Facebook-like social media platform to build community through personal profiles and group pages for your small groups, ministry teams, and outreach efforts. These free and secure social media pages enable members to connect, share prayer requests and needs, welcome new friends and care for one another throughout the week.
- Utilize secure, private groups with file sharing and calendaring to provide virtual workspace for your ministry teams and leadership to work conveniently online together any time of the day or night
- Coordinate your church’s groups, recommend resources and communicate with members through a customized organization page that is branded with your church logo, graphics and name in the url address
- Upload your own videos, podcasts, and blogs to reach more people in your communities of influence and build your tribe
- Network with an emerging movement of church leaders and volunteers to share ministry ideas, strategies and resources through open groups and forums.
- Draw on the many volunteer and leadership training resources from leading church resource organizations and publishers through content channels like Momentum (church leaders), Watermark Workshop (volunteers) and Engage (causes and missional living).
- Yes, Thomas, it’s really free.
WHY WE’RE A LOT DIFFERENT
- We are passionate about community, collaboration and the church.
We’re all about the kingdom-building business, not building our own kingdom. Ministry first, technology second.
- We’re non-profit, so churches and individuals get everything for free.
You shouldn’t have to purchase an expensive church management solution or hire a staff of geeks to leverage the best technology available for ministry.
- We put community and content in one convenient place.
Have your taco and eat it too with one reliable source that uses good content to keep bringing your members back and good community to share the best ideas. Are you really going to recommend twenty different websites to your people?
- We’re so easy to use you’ll feel as smart as Steve Jobs.
Our front end is clean and beautiful and our back end tools make managing your content as easy as updating your Facebook page or blog.
- Our content vision is generously evangelical.
We desire enough unity to build community, and enough diversity to learn from the best voices of our time. You can trust FaithVillage to let people talk while staying true to our community’s core convictions.
- Keep the door open or closed.
You shouldn’t have to choose between private groups for your church family and public groups for participating in larger Christian life and networking with new friends. FaithVillage enables you to connect freely inside or outside your church through simple security settings and permissions.
Learn more about our Church Partnerships:
Become a Church Partner:
CONTENT PARTNERSHIP
FaithVillage. A great place to start a movement.
Social media provides unprecedented tools for building your tribe, connecting across geography and time, and leveraging the credibility of trusted lines of relationship.
That’s why we’ve designed our new social network for faith experiences to provide Christian organizations, publishers and causes a new online channel for distributing their content and engaging new audiences.
FaithVillage puts content, community and commerce in one seamless community so our content partners can:
- Raise awareness among a desirable 13-44 Christian audience with their branded content in the form of articles, videos, and podcasts
- Engage fans, volunteers and donors through hosting branded forum discussions, networked blogs, and social media groups
- Enable action in the form of viral sharing, sampling, purchase, download or opt-in name acquisition
- Drive traffic to their proprietary sites
FaithVillage offers four levels of content partnership including Contributing, Preferred, Premium and Custom partnerships.
Learn more about our Content Partner Program:
Become a free contributor or paid content partner:
ADVERTISING PARTNERSHIP
Consider an Advertiser Partnership that utilizes the many advertising opportunities on FaithVillage to promote your brand among a highly targeted 13 – 44 evangelical audience. Our faith-affirming context is uniquely designed to leverage social media for recommendation among trusted friends. Standard IAB ad units are available in both content and social media contexts, along with a number of special sponsorship opportunities.
MERCHANT PARTNERSHIP (coming in 2012)
Consider a Merchant Partnership that utilizes FaithVillage as an e-commerce channel for digital resources, books, magazines or gift items. We welcome digital sales commissions on downloadable resources, affiliate marketing relationships, and third-party fulfillment arrangements.
HOW TO MOVE IN
- Sign-up to become a charter member in the sidebar at right so you get all the Inside FaithVillage news and be invited to move in when the beta, or test, version of the site launches in fall 2011.
- Schedule a webinar or personal online presentation of FaithVillage by contacting amber@faithvillage.com
- Follow the movement on Facebook, Twitter and this resource blog. Grab a badge under the TEAM FV tab and help us build a movement as we prepare to move in to FaithVillage.
