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Community service

Religious reasons for serving
Religion is one of the greatest motivating forces behind community service. “Although beneficence and good works are also important secular goals, religion remains one of the major motivating forces behind community service.” All the major religious groups emphasize values of charity, compassion, and community.

Beyond required community service, some religious groups emphasize serving one's community. These groups and churches reach out by holding Vacation Bible Schools for children, hosting Red Cross blood drives, having fall carnivals, or offering free meals. Through these services, churches are able to benefit neighborhoods and families. Some churches create non-profit organizations that can help the public. Crisis pregnancy centers are often run by religious groups to promote pro-life values in local families. To meet impoverished people's needs, some churches provide a food pantry or start a homeless shelter. Also, certain churches provide day care so that busy parents can work.

Collaborative partnership

Challenges and barriers of collaborative partnership[edit]
Unreliable funding can create significant obstacles to collaborative working relationships between stakeholders. Khan and colleagues (2004) report that in Africa, the provision of adequate financial and technical resources are key to any sustainable co-management. In the Caribbean, CANARI (1999) states that the implementation of participatory decisions and management actions requires not only political support but also adequate technical and financial resources.

Tensions may occur when organizations of different sizes and/or from different sectors collaborate. This can be due to differences in expectations, differences in available resources, or differences between objectives and motives (for example when the collaborators place different emphasis on financial and societal outcomes) (Gillett et al, 2016).

''Another key challenge to successful collaborative partnership is the inherent power difference that comes with an organization giving to a recipient organization. This uneven resource flow is one of the main sector debates surrounding partnership. By widening the definition of resource flow, the power difference can be mitigated, although arguably not completely eliminated. Partner organizations can mutually recognize that they provide benefits to each other. While one may provide a more tangible resource, the other can provide value through community knowledge, or support through their partnership in other situations. This mutual recognition of co-created value can help overcome one of the main challenges to partnership: inherent power differences.''