Promise Keepers occurs as nonprofit organization, "501(c)(3)" organization in the United States. These are non affiliated by using any Christian church or even denomination. It promotes teachings a select few construe when socially conservative & openly teaches that men should exist as leaders & responsible providers in their families. Promise Keepers does have a constituency favorable to political conservativism, though as a United states 501(100)(Ternary) nonprofit organization it just can't publicly favor even a single political person or candidate on top an additional.

Their virtually all widely publicised cases use been mass rallies held at football bowl & similar venues. It likewise sell the kind of promotional products to "help men keep their promises", including habiliment, books, & music. Dr. Bruce Wilkinson developed the widely used video curriculum, Personal Holiness in Times of Temptation, as a part of “The Biblical Manhood� series for Promise Keepers.

History
Promise Keepers began as an idea in March 20, 1990 while McCartney, then head football coach for the Colorado Buffaloes, and Dave Wardell, Ph.D. were at the Pueblo, Colorado Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting. When these deuce were within worship & prayer, the conversation between the children caused the football coach to envision his house bowl, Boulder's Folsom Field, filled by using men uncoerced to exist when taught & helped to keep their promises to God to watch Jesus Christ in their marriage life, likewise as in their personal life & more aspects of residing. When sir thomas more months of prayer, 72 men close at Boulder Valley Christian Church inside Boulder to organize what would exist as Promise Keepers' 1st event at University of Colorado's Event Center. 4,200 men attended that 1st meeting inside July, 1991. These foremost men were encouraged to bring Xii extra men to new meetings, & when supplementary men responded to these invitations, a meetings saved growing attending.

What Makes the Human?, Promise Keepers' foremost hardback book written for the organization, was number 1 published by The Navigators' Navpress publishing arm around 1992 for its first Folsom Field take in June of that month. To help become a word bent on men just about attending this event, Dr. James Dobson had McCartney on his Focus on the Family nationwide radio program that same month. A many people concerned in the class action increased markedly following of that broadcast. This June meeting marked a beginning of Promise Keepers speaking just about actively shopping for racial & partisan reconciliation among Our contries men—inside retrospect, confessedly the act however in progress.

Possibly Promise Keepers' virtually all publicised event was its Substitute the Gap: The Sacred Assembly of men open-air gathering at a National Mall in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 1997. C-SPAN carried the event sleep within its totality, & about One million men of diverse ethnic & national backgrounds from either several in case non the lot of the United States & around the world participated in a sise-hour instance of prayer and repentance. International media covered a gathering as a lead event of that weekend. Newspapers from either everthing in Us & in the area of the world—a select few when far away when Hong Kong—printed stories about a event. For a class action its size, Have In The Gap was one of the Wash., DC's virtually all peaceful gatherings ever.

Inside recent years a attendance for its big public cases in the United states has dropped off, fallowing years of packed attendance at its venues. Promise Keepers has responded by changing strategy, moving to little, 100%-weather assembly around a United States.

McCartney resigned when president in October 1, 2003 after a private leave of absence to care for his married woman's health which began in the former March. Thomas S. Fortson, Ph.D., antecedently a class action's executive vice president for administration & operations since 1996, became the class action's president & CEO thereon equivalent date.