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Some things don't require a new policy. They require follow-through on what the church already believes.Nicole Bergeron'...
05/20/2026

Some things don't require a new policy. They require follow-through on what the church already believes.

Nicole Bergeron's essay in Faith & Leadership is still generating conversation - and it's worth being part of.

Read it here: https://faithandleadership.com/yeah-im-vehemently-pro-pastor

There's a difference between serving a system and fighting for the people inside it. In her latest piece, our founding C...
05/08/2026

There's a difference between serving a system and fighting for the people inside it. In her latest piece, our founding CEO writes about the moment that line became clear.

It's the kind of shift that doesn't happen in a meeting or a strategy session - it happens when you're close enough to the problem to feel its weight. Nicole has been in that room. This essay is what she learned there.

It's worth your time: https://faithandleadership.com/yeah-im-vehemently-pro-pastor

The church talks a lot about caring for its pastors. But care without material support isn't care - it's sentiment.In a ...
04/29/2026

The church talks a lot about caring for its pastors. But care without material support isn't care - it's sentiment.

In a new essay for Faith & Leadership, our CEO Nicole Bergeron makes a case that is both practical and theological: in today's capitalist world, love and care look like money. Not as a concession to the market, but as an honest reckoning with what it actually costs to keep gifted people in ministry.

It's the kind of argument that reframes a problem the church has been circling for years without quite naming it.

It's worth reading: https://faithandleadership.com/yeah-im-vehemently-pro-pastor

We work with churches that are trying to house their pastors in some of the most expensive real estate markets in the co...
04/21/2026

We work with churches that are trying to house their pastors in some of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. The path to a closed transaction involves investors, lenders, underwriters, legal counsel, and a church board that has never done this before.

There is real process. There has to be.

But Nicole Bergeron, our CEO, published a piece in Nonprofit Quarterly that names something we hold in tension every day:

"The question is not whether you have drag. It is whether the drag matches the relationship."

The churches that come to us aren't risks to be managed. They're partners who've already done the hard work of deciding their pastor deserves stability. The investors who fund our downpayment assistance (DPA) transactions aren't line items in a compliance framework. They're people who trust us with real capital because they believe in what we're building together.

We try to match our process to that trust, not to our own anxiety about what could go wrong.

If your church is navigating pastoral housing, how much of the process has felt like it's working for you versus working against you? Drop your experience in the comments. We'd love to hear it.

Read the full article here: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/philanthropys-drag-coefficient-when-process-costs-more-than-failure/

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We work with churches that are trying to house their pastors in some of the most expensive real estate markets in the co...
04/21/2026

We work with churches that are trying to house their pastors in some of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. The path to a closed transaction involves investors, lenders, underwriters, legal counsel, and a church board that has never done this before.

There is real process. There has to be.

But Nicole Bergeron, our CEO, published a piece in Nonprofit Quarterly that names something we hold in tension every day:

"The question is not whether you have drag. It is whether the drag matches the relationship."

The churches that come to us aren't risks to be managed. They're partners who've already done the hard work of deciding their pastor deserves stability. The investors who fund our downpayment assistance (DPA). transactions aren't line items in a compliance framework. They're people who trust us with real capital because they believe in what we're building together.

We try to match our process to that trust, not to our own anxiety about what could go wrong.

If your church is navigating pastoral housing, how much of the process has felt like it's working for you versus working against you? Drop your experience in the comments. We'd love to hear it.

Read the full article here: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/philanthropys-drag-coefficient-when-process-costs-more-than-failure/

www.aslan.org

Philanthropy has drag.Not as a metaphor—as a structural fact.Our founder Nicole Marie Bergeron writes about it in Nonpro...
04/13/2026

Philanthropy has drag.
Not as a metaphor—as a structural fact.

Our founder Nicole Marie Bergeron writes about it in Nonprofit Quarterly: the 25-page applications, the reporting cycles that cost more than the work itself, the compliance systems that sort for compliance rather than excellence. We call it diligence. Often it functions more like anxiety management, and the bill gets passed to the organizations doing the hardest work.

We see the downstream effect every day. A pastor displaced from the community he's served for a decade. A youth director who can't qualify for a mortgage not because of her finances, but because the housing infrastructure around her—the programs, the processes, the systems—were never built with her in mind.

Drag doesn't just slow things down. It determines who gets help and who doesn't. It is the evidence of a system that's optimizing for its own comfort. If we're serious about the hardest problems in society such as housing for ministry leaders, we have to get serious about what we're measuring and what we've simply normalized.

Intention is not impact. Neither is process.

Read: Philanthropy's Drag Coefficient: When Process Costs More Than Failure — Nonprofit Quarterly https://nonprofitquarterly.org/philanthropys-drag-coefficient-when-process-costs-more-than-failure/

Easter has passed. The stone has been rolled away. And today — April 10 — the Artemis II crew splashes down. They went b...
04/10/2026

Easter has passed. The stone has been rolled away. And today — April 10 — the Artemis II crew splashes down. They went behind the moon. They entered the shadow zone. Forty-one minutes of total silence, cut off from everyone who loves them. And then: Re-Acquisition of Signal. Return. Splashdown. The pattern is older than the space program.

'The resurrection is our collective re-acquisition from the shadow zone of Holy Saturday,' our CEO, Nicole Bergeron, writes.

Today it happens again — in orbit, in water, in the flesh. We cannot wait to welcome Reid, Christina, Victor, and Jeremy back home.

Read the full article here: https://mbird.com/news/radio-silence/

Easter has passed. The stone has been rolled away. And today — April 10 — the Artemis II crew splashes down. They went b...
04/10/2026

Easter has passed. The stone has been rolled away. And today — April 10 — the Artemis II crew splashes down. They went behind the moon. They entered the shadow zone. Forty-one minutes of total silence, cut off from everyone who loves them. And then: Re-Acquisition of Signal. Return. Splashdown. The pattern is older than the space program.

'The resurrection is our collective re-acquisition from the shadow zone of Holy Saturday,' our CEO, Bergeron, writes.

Today it happens again — in orbit, in water, in the flesh. We cannot wait to welcome Reid, Christina, Victor, and Jeremy back home.

Read the full article here: https://mbird.com/news/radio-silence/

There’s a moment in the journey to the moon when astronauts lose all contact with Earth—no signal, no reassurance, just ...
04/04/2026

There’s a moment in the journey to the moon when astronauts lose all contact with Earth—no signal, no reassurance, just silence. In her piece 'Radio Silence,' Nicole Bergeron reflects on that reality and connects it to something deeply human: the experience of Easter.

The in-between.
The unanswered.
The silence where you’re not sure what’s happening next.

We’ve come to recognize this space. It’s the pastor waiting for housing that hasn’t opened up yet. The family in transition. The church holding a vision they can’t fully see unfold. And yet, this is often where the real work is happening.

Not in the breakthrough. Not in the resolution. But in the waiting.

Silence doesn’t mean absence. It doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Sometimes, it’s the very place where transformation is taking root.

As we sit in this Easter Saturday moment, we’re reminded:
hope doesn’t always come loudly. Sometimes, it comes quietly—forming in the dark, just before new life breaks through.

Read the full article here: https://mbird.com/news/radio-silence/

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