@article {63576,
	title = {Doing Good in American Communities: Congregations and Service Organizations Working Together},
	year = {2001},
	note = {Download PDF},
	month = {Jan 1, 2001},
	abstract = {A Research Report from the Organizing Religious Work Project, Hartford Institute for Religion Research Hartford Seminary
The well{\textendash}being of every community depends on harnessing the contributions of its citizens. Sustaining viable communities requires places where people can gather, work together, and learn to trust one another {\textendash} where we generate what Robert Putnam has called "social capital."1 We depend on the neighborhood associations and political action groups, parent associations and leagues of civil rights activists, as well as the churches, synagogues, and mosques that provide places of concern, belonging and action. This is a report on the work being done by such religious organizations and their community partners in seven representative communities in the U.S..},
	author = {Nancy T. Ammerman}
}
