How-To Guides

Everything your faith-based organization needs to know about maintaining your house of faith’s property.

Everything your faith-based organization needs to know about property management, from everyday tasks to larger developments.

Everything your faith-based organization needs to know about diverse sources of funding, including rental income opportunities and traditional grants.

Everything your faith-based organization needs to know about grants, from where to find them to grant application tips.

Bricks and Mortals has a new resource breaking down the important questions to ask any consultant and best practices for finding a vendor.

Check out the Urban Context Lab: Sacred Sites report. It includes an analysis of each institution, looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, historical context, current use of the space, key challenges, intervention goals and proposals for new ways to use the space.

SHARING YOUR SPACE? HOW TO DETERMINE PRICING.

Following our event series in March on Local Law 97, Bricks and Mortals has generated a resource that distills the main takeaways from the events for houses of worship. Local Law 97 places requirements on buildings 25,000 square feet and over to reduce carbon emissions, including houses of worship. You can learn more about how […]

Bricks and Mortals has a new resource highlighting community engagement strategies that organizations use to better understand the needs of their constituents.

The Manhattan Borough President’s Office and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service have written the Land Use & Zoning Action Guide for Religious Facilities.