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Little research has been done on the role of umbrella organizations in affecting how faith-based organizations (FBOs) relate to their sponsoring faith community. Using interviews, archival historical data, and ethnographic observations compiled between 2004 and 2008 by the Faith and Organizations Project, this article applies previous typologies for secular nonprofit umbrella organizations to faith-based umbrellas and outlines some of the benefits and liabilities that these umbrella organizations pose for both faith communities and their local FBOs.

This article outlines the ways that religious schools, hospitals, and social service institutions have affected their sponsoring denomination or church group in the past. Three basic channels of influence are described. The institutions impacted the sponsor's very identity and purpose, they defined the requisites of holy activity, and they served as a channel for membership recruitment and leadership development. Implications for denominations and other religious groups of the current attenuation of ties with their former institutions are then explored.

Previous sociological research concerning the effects of urban living upon city dwellers has not addressed the question of whether satisfaction with and attachment to one's urban neighborhood are related to the amount of local facility use and local social interaction a resident displays. Since blacks ordinarily perform fewer activities locally than do whites, it is also of interest whether their community attitudes are dependent on these activities to a different extent than might be the case with whites. This article reports findings indicating that blacks' neighborhood satisfaction and attachment depend very little upon the extent of their activity within their communities.