The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church hosted one Power Shift Learning Cohorts in 2024 with additional learning cohorts and an implementation focused Community of Practice launching in 2025. The conference is seeking to equip local pastors who are seeking to strengthen their communities from the inside out utilizing CommUnity Powered Framework.

Embrace Centers for Community is seeking to establish health-focused community hubs in under utilized United Methodist Churches in the western part of Virginia. The first such hub is up and running in Waynesboro, VA with the second site under development in Covington, VA.

Family Connection sites are supported by the West Central Health District across more than a dozen counties is west central Georgia. The community based health and wellness organizations seek to strengthen local communities by responding to local concerns ranging from literacy to food, to access to health.

Callie Walker is an United Methodist pastor, community organizer, and founding member of Central Virginia Agrarian Commons. Her and her husband donated 85 acres of Amelia County farm land in support of Black farmers, and in recognition of the plantation history that the land had endured.

The Association for Regenerative Culture and Embrace Communities are partnering to develop a collaborative curriculum that brings together Asset-based Community Development principles and practices with Regenerative Culture practices such as permaculture. 

Embrace is thankful to be a part of Tamarack Institute's 2024 ABCD workshop series.  Our co-designed half-day highly interactive introduction to ABCD was a huge success with over 150 participants in 2024. 

We are excited to be partnering with Church in the Wild pastor Corey Turnpenny to launch a Regenerative Culture listening project. Corey is a 2024 Great Neighbor Award recipient and we are thankful to have her as member of our Advisory Circle.

The Heart of Virginia ABCD Network grew out of our 2021 learning cohort and 2022 community of practice.

The United Methodist of Upper New York cohort brought together eight of the most innovative leaders in the Upper New York Conference. The pastoral leaders were from a variety of contexts including. urban, rural, and suburban areas across the region.

We Understand Youth (WUY) became a coaching & training client of Embrace in June of 2022.  WUY is seeking to strengthen the Farmville Community by investing in our future community leaders - the youth of Prince Edward County.  WUY is currently in the process of building out a youth center in the south Virginia Street community which will be a hub for youth development activities i