ImagineHub: Centers for Missional Innovation
Our Mission
Equipping faith communities to build bridges into their community through creating pathways for equitable economic empowerment.
Our Vision
A network of teams and environments for “spirit-filled collisions” of diverse people where innovation and entrepreneurship are nurtured, cultivated and harvested.
ImagineHub provides a learning network, training programs, and support solutions to equip faith communities to reimagine and deploy their space and resources as a means for improving economic empowerment in their communities. The first ImagineHub sites launched in 2020 in under-utilized church spaces in the Piedmont Triad region of NC, and has grown to 25 sites in NC and FL.
ImagineHub outcomes: Moving from Community Engagement to Community Ownership
a. Increase in number and diversity of faith communities focused on missional innovation
b. Improve church space assessment for repurposing towards mission to community
c. Increase in availability and accessibility of innovative spaces for training, mentoring, connecting, co-working and incubation.
d. Increase knowledge and experience of tools, processes and techniques in fostering innovation, design thinking and entrepreneurship.
e. Increase awareness of cross-cultural humility for breaking down divisions between people.
f. Increase in number and impact of experiments with diverse teams in congregations and communities.
g. Increase partnerships between church and community as innovative solutions are sought for the common civic good.
h. Increase training and coaching opportunities where under-connected people with new ideas can be nurtured from spark to launch.