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minimal involvement in collaborative fundraising – so the recommendation was to start small. As the church explores the next steps in its capital campaign, it will continue to keep its resident artists apprised of its progress. Not only will this communication help deepen the relationship between them, but it will provide an opening for the artists to get more involved. The theater’s donors – who, of course, are invested in its future – will more than likely be invested in the future of a church that it calls home. Keeping space-sharing partners in the loop about the capital campaign timeline will empower them, in turn, to keep their donors and stakeholders in the loop. When the time comes to launch the campaign, the congregation will have a significantly larger donor pool to which they can appeal for support. The AiSP program, as well as all of Partners’ space-sharing programs, has the New Dollars/New Partners framework at its core. As AiSP grows, so will the opportunities to explore collaborative fundraising and capital campaign opportunities. As new matches are made across the country, new best practices for sharing donors and sharing dollars will emerge. “I want to throw my life into this partnership and this community,” said Melissa Lorraine (pictured with husband and playwright, Evan Hill), artistic director and founder of Theatre Y, the Artistin-Residence at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square in Chicago. Photo credit: E. Aaron Ross for Chicago Reader. a new home. (See “Arts in Sacred Places Success Story,” Sacred Places Fall 2013.) From the start of their space-sharing agreement negotiation, collaborative fundraising was on the minds of both the congregation and the arts organization. St. Luke’s and Theatre Y have agreed to a set of prio ɥѥ