Articles from Wesleyan Impact Partners

Wesleyan Impact Partners has received a $5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its National Storytelling Initiative on Christian Faith and Life 2025. The grant will support All the Good You Can, a national storytelling campaign designed to surface and share authentic stories of Christian faith that reach people who feel disconnected from organized religion with humility, beauty, and spiritual depth. At its heart, All the Good You Can is about witness — helping people see where God is still at work in the world, often in quiet, surprising, and deeply human ways.

Wesleyan Impact Partners, a national nonprofit and ministry partner to churches, nonprofit ministries, and leaders, proudly announces the 2026 Locke Innovative Leader Award honorees, spiritual entrepreneurs whose faith-driven innovation is reshaping communities and congregations alike.

Wesleyan Impact Partners announces Rich Coffey as director of investor relations and impact growth. With over 20 years of experience in organizational growth, business strategy, operations, and financial management, Coffey will advance Wesleyan Impact Partners’ and Texas Methodist Foundation’s vision of empowering the church’s mission through a cycle of generosity that provides investors competitive returns* and funds loans, gift planning services, and learning and innovation cohorts and experiences for leaders, churches, and nonprofit ministries doing the loving work of Christ in the world**.

Wesleyan Impact Partners, a national nonprofit and church ministry partner dedicated to lifting up the work of spiritual entrepreneurs, proudly announces the 2025 Locke Innovative Leader Award honorees.

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Kean Tonetti has been named director of gift planning at Wesleyan Impact Partners. She has nearly 20 years of experience in charitable giving, estate planning, and nonprofit consulting that will support Wesleyan Impact Partners’ and Texas Methodist Foundation’s mission to empower churches, foundations, and nonprofit ministries now and into the future.

Wesleyan Impact Partners announces the selection and launch of its Phygital Preaching Fellows Initiative. Nineteen leaders will explore and experiment with technologies to discover new delivery systems for the Gospel as the church lives into the phygital (physical + digital) public square. The cohort of Phygital Fellows will share and showcase their learnings broadly, igniting imagination across the church for what God can do in and through digital spaces.

Wesleyan Impact Partners, a national nonprofit dedicated to investing in growing the church's impact and nourishing the communities it serves, announces its 2024 Locke Innovative Leader Award honorees. These five spiritual innovators are creating new ways to transform lives and neighborhoods through asset-based community development, creative partnerships, social entrepreneurship, and capacity building.

Wesleyan Impact Partners announces the addition of four new members to its board of directors. Each member has a wealth of experience and diverse perspectives to guide our work. Wesleyan Impact Partners has a 55-year history as a trusted investment and loan partner growing churches and ministries and helps build thriving congregations and flourishing communities across the United States.

Wesleyan Impact Partners is expanding its investment in growing the church with the addition of Chris Miller as vice president of lending and Douglas Cotner as senior loan officer. Building on Wesleyan Impact Partners' 55 years as a trusted financial and learning and innovation partner helping to build a Spirit-led movement of thriving congregations and flourishing communities, Miller and Cotner will continue to increase Wesleyan Impact Partners' role as an essential partner supporting the vitality and impact of churches and nonprofit ministries across the United States.

Lilly Endowment Inc., a philanthropic foundation committed to supporting causes of community development, education, and religion, granted Wesleyan Impact Partners $1.25 million to fund the Phygital Preaching Fellows initiative as part of Lilly Endowment’s Compelling Preaching Initiative. The initiative aims to foster and support preaching that inspires, encourages, and guides people to come to know and love God and to live out their Christian faith more fully.

Wesleyan Impact Partners announces the hiring of Rev. Kathleen McShane and Derrick Scott III, two prominent leadership and innovation voices from across the Methodist ecosystem. They will lead conversations and cohorts, imaginatively grow ministries and encourage new expressions of formation across the Wesleyan movement.

Wesleyan Impact Partners, a national nonprofit fueled by impact investors, borrowers, and philanthropists investing in ministries and innovative leaders, announces its 2023 Locke Innovative Leader Award recipients. These four spiritual entrepreneurs exemplify the award’s aim to honor innovative leaders who have taken risks to bring about a better world where more people know God’s love.