Host Site Application

Host Site Application

We are so excited you are interested in becoming a Be The Neighbor Site. In this form, you will find the initial requirements, expectations, and information needed to become a site.
Your Name
Your Email Address
example@example.com
Your Phone Number
Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
Congregation Name
Congregation Website
Congregation/Host Site Location

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

CityState

Zip Code
- This will be the theme that groups who come to your site will learn about and do service work around. Choose a justice issue that your congregation is already actively involved in working on. You can become an additional site that focuses on a justice issue we're already looking at, or you can help us to grow into a new area that we don't currently focus on. To share a new topic idea, select "other" and a text box will appear for you to enter your topic.
  
  Other
- Maximum Number of Trip Participants
- We host groups of all age make ups. Groups with high school and middle school require one adult for every six youth. Trip that include elementary aged students require one adult for each youth. What ages do you think would work best for a trip to your location? Select all that apply.
- Each of our sites is designated as either a Reach Site or a Connect Site. Both types of trips have participants doing lots of hands on service. The differences are:
  - Connect Trips help to teach participants how the they can make a difference around justice issue in their own communities and how it impacts their neighbors. On these trips, groups generally do one all day hands on volunteer activity or one morning and one afternoon.
  - Reach Trips learn the same thing as connect, but also do more education to learn about how the work they're doing is a part of a systemic issue and how they can advocate to make changes. This is done through guest speakers, simulations, trips to museums or other historical sites, etc. Generally, groups will spend a portion of each day doing hands on service and another portion learning. Some days may have two hands on activities.
- Which type of trip best fits with what you are hoping to offer?
- Give a brief description of how you envision your trip. What will groups learn? What kinds of work will they do? We will use this information to tell groups about your trip.
- We ask that locations who are hosting summer groups try to commit to hosting four weeks of trips between the second week in June and the end of July (preferably consecutive, but they can have a one week break, if needed). Is this something your site would be able to accomodate? If not, please let us know the number of weeks you feel you'd be able to host.
- Be The Neighbor is a justice-based service-learning trip ministry that equips youth and adults to live lives of love, service, and justice. We visualize a world where, through love of neighbor, justice is realized, people flourish, and communities are made whole. Be The Neighbor values love for all people and creation being spiritually anchored in and moved by our faith building community and living as neighbor affirming the dignity and humanity of all. Be The Neighbor is related to The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. Be The Neighbor welcomes everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- We ask that each site begins with a minimum of five community partners you are already invested with who are working within the same justice focus area. Partnership for us means you have a close personal relationship with them, and your community gives and volunteers with them regularly. We expect that partner organizations will know your phone number/email and feel comfortable reaching out to your church when they need help, and will feel confident that you will say yes to help if reasonably possible or connect them to someone who can help.
- Each trip will have “experts” in your justice area who are available to teach groups and share their story. Experts include people who have experienced the topic (i.e. have been homeless, are refugees, etc.), non-profit and community leaders who work in the topic, activists around the theme, or educators who research and/or teach around the theme.
- Each site will have one staff person who commits to overseeing the Be The Neighbor program at your site and working to help plan the weeks prior to groups arrival.
- Liaison Name
- Liaison Email
  example@example.com
- Liaison Phone Number
  Please enter a valid phone number.Format: (000) 000-0000.
- Each site is required to have safe places for groups to sleep, shower, meet together, and prepare meals.
- Describe the place the groups might sleep.
- Describe the place the groups might shower.
- Describe the place the groups might meet.
- Describe the place the groups might prepare meals.
- If your site is chosen as a Be The Neighbor official site by our staff and Programs Committee, your site liaison will be trained in our curriculum and best practices for setting up the rest of the trip!
  
  In the partnership, Be The Neighbor will commit to provide:
  - At least one intern during trips at your site
  - Curriculum for each trip
  - Support for each site
  - Handling of registration and advertisement of the trips.
  - Payment for the Site Director
  - Payment for supplies and meals provided (breakfast, lunch, and a snack)
- Should be Empty: