Community Playbook
For Churches and the Networks That Serve Them

Know your neighborhood.Love them well.

Find your play, start the partnership, and tell the story. One finished play in 90 days.

Start with a Free Playbook

Free to start. No account needed to browse the playbooks.

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Immerse TMS Global Florida Memorial University

Before your next outreach

Three questions worth sitting with:

  1. 1 Looking back: What did your last community initiative cost in budget, volunteers, and hours, and what was still standing a year later?
  2. 2 Right now: What is already working in your neighborhood that more people should know about?
  3. 3 Looking ahead: What would one finished play, with a story to tell, make possible for your next ask?

One workflow. Three outcomes.

From “where do we start?” to a play your congregation and your community can see.

1

See and start

Know who is already serving.

See your neighborhood's data beside real stories, find the partners already doing the work, and let PartnerWell draft your first outreach so the conversation starts this week.

2

Move it forward

Keep the work from stalling.

ServeWell keeps the partnership and the play moving, with a named owner, a next step, and a date on every piece, so meetings stop ending without an owner.

3

Tell the story

Say it once, in the right voice.

StoryWell shapes what is happening for your congregation, your neighbors, and your funders, each in the language they need to hear.

What a finished play looks like

A play that launched

One focused 90-day play, chosen from your neighborhood's real needs, with a budget and a timeline your team can run.

Partners with names

The organizations beside you are known, contacted, and working with you, not just listed on a spreadsheet.

A story to tell

Honest results you can share with your congregation, your neighbors, and the people who might fund your next step.

In Their Words

From “where do I start?”to a play they could see.

Church and civic leaders saw Community Playbook™ for the first time. Here is what they said.

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Dr. Thomas

The Way Community

Roosevelt, NY

“I don't know how many times I've said, even being here, where do I start? This gives me that clarity.”

What changed

✓ Neighborhood data in minutes, so the starting point was clear.

✓ A vague desire to help became a targeted plan.

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Scott Grey

Civic and Faith Leader

Spur, TX

“People often know they need to help but don't know where to start. When you can direct them to specific areas, it's much more effective.”

What changed

✓ Willing volunteers got pointed to specific, real needs.

✓ Scattered volunteering became focused local work.

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See it in 60 seconds

Platform walkthrough

Watch how a church goes from neighborhood data to a named partner, a moving project, and a story ready to share.

What you'll see

· How your ZIP code's data turns into a starting point.

· How you find partners and start the conversation.

· How the story gets told to the people who need it.

“It was challenging and it made me reevaluate how I see my community that I don't know yet.”

Pastor Eric Richards Pastor Eric Richards
Real Life Church SFL

“It was eye opening and revealed so much we didn't know as a church.”

Pastor Robert Spry Pastor Robert Spry
Faith and Life Fellowship Ministries

Ready to know your neighborhood and love them well?

Start with a Free Playbook

These are unscripted reactions from leaders seeing Community Playbook for the first time.

Start free. Choose how you want to run it.

Pick the way your church runs its play.

Every path starts free. When you are ready, run it yourself with the platform, or run it with a Playmaker who walks it with you for 90 days.

Step 1 · Find Your Play

Know which 90-day play fits your neighborhood in ten minutes.

Your ZIP code snapshot, 26 proven playbooks with real budgets and 90-day launch plans, and the Listen First guide for hearing your neighbors before you choose.

Free

Always open access

Browse Free Playbooks

Step 2 · Your Neighborhood Plan

One clear next step, in seven days.

A tailored brief that combines your congregation's story and assets, your neighborhood's data, and three recommended 90-day plays with budget and risk notes.

  • ✓ 15 to 20 page tailored brief
  • ✓ Five-minute explainer video
  • ✓ One-page snapshot to share
  • ✓ Leadership deck for your board or staff
  • ✓ 60-minute walkthrough

Your $495 is credited in full toward the Platform or a 90-Day Play when you start either one within 90 days.

$495

Delivered in 7 days

Step 3 · Run Your Play

Run it yourself, run it with a Playmaker, or build a year.

Clear prices. No hourly meter. You are paying for a finished play, not for our time.

Run it yourself

The Platform

Everything you started stays moving.

$349 / month

or $3,490 a year (two months free)

  • ✓See who else is already doing the work in your neighborhood
  • ✓PartnerWell drafts your first outreach to each partner
  • ✓ServeWell keeps the partnership and the play moving
  • ✓StoryWell tells the story to your congregation, neighbors, and funders
Most Churches Choose This

Run it with a Playmaker

The 90-Day Play

A launched play, named partners, and a story to tell by day 90.

$4,500 / season

Platform included for the full 90 days

  • ✓A trained Playmaker matched to your project, with you from kickoff to launch
  • ✓Outreach emails, project brief, partner agreement drafts, and budget tracker ready to use
  • ✓Warm introductions to partners such as health systems, CDFIs, and legal aid
  • ✓A closing report with your wins, lessons, and next steps

Bonuses

Playmaker office hours between sessions, and a story feature on communityplaybook.org.

We run three plays at a time so each one gets real attention.

Build a year

The Partnership Year

Three finished plays, a standing partner table, and three stories your congregation and funders can see.

$14,500 / year
  • ✓Three 90-Day Plays, one after another, with your Playmaker
  • ✓The Platform for the full year
  • ✓A StoryWell story package at the end of every season
  • ✓A quarterly leadership briefing for your pastor, board, and partners

The Finished Play Guarantee

If your play has not launched by day 90 and you did your part, your Playmaker keeps working with you at no charge until it has.

For Networks

Serving many churches?

Run plays across a denomination, a collaborative, or a coalition, with one place to see every church's progress.

Give every church the tools

Network Platform

Up to 10 churches on the Platform, with shared reporting so you can see who is moving.

$24,000 / year

Run plays together

Cohort Seasons

A group of churches runs the 90-Day Play at the same time, each with a Playmaker, platform included.

$3,900 / church / season

5 churches minimum

Flagship

Neighborhood Formation Accelerator

10 to 20 churches running plays together, with the reporting your board and funders want. A fractional transformation team, not a software subscription.

$45K to $60K / year