Interfaith Funders (IF) is a network of faith-based
and secular grantmakers working to advance the
field of congregation-based community organizing
(CBCO), to strengthen democracy and justice.
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and secular grantmakers working to advance the
field of congregation-based community organizing
(CBCO), to strengthen democracy and justice.
What is CBCO? Learn More
CBCO in the News:
June 9, 2010 (New Orleans, LA): Rev. Vien Nguyen of the Mary
Queen of Viet Nam church, a member of the Micah Project (PICO),
presses Pres. Obama and British Petroleum to clean up the oil spill,
which threatens the seafood industry, impacting 80% of Southeast
Asian families in the Gulf. Read the story
June 8, 2010 (nationwide): The PICO national network coordinated
faith rallies for immigration reform across the nation calling for the
passage of the Dream Act as a "down payment" toward
comprehensive immigration reform. In Denver, undocumented
"pilgrims" joined in prayer in front of the Aurora Immigrant Detention
Center, a for-profit facility holding 100s of detainees. Find out more
May 27, 2010 (San Jose, CA): Bank of America executives locked
the doors to prevent account closures by faith and community
leaders organized by PACT, a PICO affiliate, the latest in a protracted
campaign by PACT and other organizations to get BoA to modify
loans, or even offer a basic response. Find out more
May, 2010 (London, England UK): Prof. Luke Bretherton reports on
the stunning influence of CitizensUK, an IAF affiliate, on the 2010
Election, including appearances at a large public meeting by all
three Prime Ministerial candidates. Find out more
May 10, 2010 (Denver, CO): Metro Organizations for People (PICO)
and allies win a big victory in the statehouse to restrain pay-day
lending abuses. Find out more
May 6, 2010 (Lafayette, CO): Boulder Valley Community Action,
based at the Boulder Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and
affiliate of Metro Organizations for People (PICO) holds first-ever
MOP action in Boulder County, calling on State Senate President
Brandon Shaffer and Boulder County Commissioner to expand
enrollment of children eligible for heath care programs. More info
April 29, 2010 (Wall Street, NYC): National Peoples Action, PICO
National Network, the AFL-CIO and other citizens group march for
bank regulation and accountability and an end to predatory lending
practices, culminating a week of joint pro-financial reform events
nationwide. Find out more
April 27, 2010 (San Francisco): PICO leaders, labor and community
allies march to present a common set of demands for accountability
at the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting. Find out more
April 14, 2010 (Washington, DC): Leaders from Metro IAF affiliates
in over eight states converge on US Capitol to demand passage of
the Interest Rate Reduction Act. Greater Boston Interfaith
Organization President announces that the state of Washington has
moved funds out of Bank of America for usury. Find out more
March 31, 2010 (Montreal, Canada): Major study to examine
religious diversity and its role in Canadian society is announced on
Interfaithing.com, an extensive online interfaith resource.
March 21, 2010 (Washington, DC): House passes historic Health
Care Reform bill.
March 21, 2010 (Washington, DC): 200,000 rally of the Capitol for
Comprehensive Immigration Reform includes thousands from faith
community. Find out more
March 20, 2010 (cross-country) : PICO's bus caravan arrives for
Reform Immigration for America rally after stops in Ohio, Kansas,
Colorado, Nevada and Colorado, after a month of engaging
thousands of people across the country in a coordinated series of
prayer vigils, press events, town hall meeting and lobbying. Find
out more
Feb. 16, 2010: (Chicago, IL) Gamaliel network newsletter
"Organizing" latest edition is available. Read it or subscribe online
Jan. 15, 2010: New Deadline for DART Organizers Institute! link
December 21, 2009 (Washington DC); Health care reform bill
progresses through the Senate, hailed and criticized by community
and faith leaders.
December 14,2009 (Washington, DC): Faith Leaders of the PICO
network and Sojourners called on the Obama administration to
relieve foreclosures for homeowners who have lost their jobs. Find
out more
November 1-6, 2009: (Brockton and San Francisco, CA) PICO faith
leaders hold town meeting with Chairman Barney Frank to call on
the Treasury to help homeowners who have lost their jobs, and
called on Bank of America to voluntarily modify loans.
November 6-7, 2009: (Chicago) "From Saul Alinsky to Barack
Obama and Beyond.." Chicago Community Organizing Summit by
the Woods Fund of Chicago featured a presentation Seizing the
Moment: Frank Advice for Community Organizers Who Want to
Raise More Money" by Aaron Dorfman of NCRP and Marjorie Fine of
CCC. Read it here
October 16, 2009 (Oklahoma City, OK): Diverse local faith leaders
interviewed on their positive vision for Oklahoma Sponsoring
Committee's community organizing Read it here
October 2, 2009: (national) DART Organizers Institute releases
video on their grassroots community organizer training. DEADLINE
FOR 2010 Institute: Dec. 15, 2010 See the video and find out more
October 2, 2009: Gamaliel Foundation President Ann Smith
condemns the intentional distortion of a video of interfaith prayer by
several media outlets and bloggers, criticizing the "illegitimate"
misinformation, and calls on Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck and others to
apologize to the clergy and congregation members involved.
Read it here
October. 22, 2009: (Walla Walla, WA) Alinsky symposium sparks
topics of community activism and organizing at Whitman college, on
the centennial of Saul Alinsky's birth. Saul's son Dave and others
noted the valuable contribution of community organizing to
democracy. Read about it here in the campus paper.
September 30, 2009: (Minneapolis): Over 100 funders, social
justice organizers and allies attend release event of Strengthening
Democracy Increasing Opportunities report on how 15 Minnesota
organizations leveraged foundation support to bring in $136 in
equivalent benefits for every dollar spend. Link here to the National
Committee on Responsive Philanthropy to learn more
August 19, 2009: (Nationwide): An estimated 140,000 people,
including thousands from the PICO network, were on a historic
national faith community conference call on health care reform with
Pres. Obama. Drawing on the moral imperative of the faith
traditions, the gigantic online Action called on Congress to pass
health insurance reform this fall. Find out more
August 11, 2009: (50 US Cities) the PICO National Network kicked
off the "40 Days of Health Care Reform" with a national action of 50
prayer rallies in 18 states reaching over 100 members of Congress,
and in partnership with Faith in Public Life and other allies,
launched an ad campaign featuring PICO leaders. Find out more
August 1, 2009: (Kansas City, MO) Faith and community leaders
from Communities Creating Opportunity (PICO) and National
Peoples' Action affiliates GRO and Sunflower Community Action
presented a joint platform to Federal Reserve representations,
calling for lending and foreclosure reforms, as part of a national
series of community hearings. Find out more
July 22, 2009: (Five US cities and London): Metro IAF affiliates hold
joint actions to launch 10% is Enough campaign for a 10% cap on
interest rates banks charge in the US and Great Britain, visit the
Metro IAF website for background and media
www.10percentisenough.org
July 15, 2009: (Des Moines, IA) the Register publishes Organize
Communities to Battle Inequality, by Deepak Bhargava, director of
Center for Community Change Find out more
June 24, 2009: (Washington, DC): Interfaith Service of Witness and
Prayer for Health Care attended by a thousand leaders of 40
denominations, organizing networks, and faith organizations,
sponsored by Believe Together: Health Care for All. Find out more
June 11, 2009: (Richmond, CA): Two hundred people from PICO
affiliate Contra Costa Interfaith Sponsoring Community Organization
teamed with National Peoples' Action to kick off a series of Federal
Reserve hearings in ten cities hard hit by foreclosure and financial
crisis. Find out more
June 11, 2009: (Overland Park, KS): A hundred ten leaders gather
for the African American Leadership Assembly of the Gamaliel
Foundation, details in the July 07 edition of Organizing, The
Gamaliel International Newsletter. Find out more
May 11, 2009: (Toledo, OH): Nearly 1200 rallied as TUSA, a DART
affiliate, called for consistent school discipline, green jobs, and
remediation of abandoned housing. Find out more
April 12, 2009: (New York, NY): Community organizing featured as
Career, with such fashion trend setters as Marshall Gans, in the
Style Section of the New York Times.
March 11, 2009 (Washington, DC): CBCOs, other clergy and
churches with the Transportation Equity Network push for stimulus
funds for public transit projects and jobs. Find out more
March 10, 2009: (Antioch, CA to Washington, DC) PICO's "Recovery
Express" cross-country caravan arrives in DC for rallies and lobby
days, after visiting 8 cities hard-hit by the economic crisis. Find out
more
March 6, 2009 (Phoenix, AZ): Arizona Interfaith and ACORN press
for remediation of substandard jail conditions and reform of
immigration practices by notorious local sheriff.
Feb. 5, 2009: (Washington, DC): The Washington Post reports on
the Center for Community Change mobilizing grassroots activists to
maximize the impact of Pres. Obama's first 100 days.
Read more
Feb. 4, 2009: (Washington, DC): As President Obama signs the
Children's Health Care (SCHIP) bill into law, the PICO National
Network celebrates victory for a long campaign with great meaning
for their members. Find out more
January 20, 2009 (Washington, DC): Millions watch as the United
States inaugurates the first President, Barack H. Obama, with
training in community organizing. Read his article on organizing in
Illinois (1990) and find out more about his history with the Gamaliel
Network.
News Archive
June 9, 2010 (New Orleans, LA): Rev. Vien Nguyen of the Mary
Queen of Viet Nam church, a member of the Micah Project (PICO),
presses Pres. Obama and British Petroleum to clean up the oil spill,
which threatens the seafood industry, impacting 80% of Southeast
Asian families in the Gulf. Read the story
June 8, 2010 (nationwide): The PICO national network coordinated
faith rallies for immigration reform across the nation calling for the
passage of the Dream Act as a "down payment" toward
comprehensive immigration reform. In Denver, undocumented
"pilgrims" joined in prayer in front of the Aurora Immigrant Detention
Center, a for-profit facility holding 100s of detainees. Find out more
May 27, 2010 (San Jose, CA): Bank of America executives locked
the doors to prevent account closures by faith and community
leaders organized by PACT, a PICO affiliate, the latest in a protracted
campaign by PACT and other organizations to get BoA to modify
loans, or even offer a basic response. Find out more
May, 2010 (London, England UK): Prof. Luke Bretherton reports on
the stunning influence of CitizensUK, an IAF affiliate, on the 2010
Election, including appearances at a large public meeting by all
three Prime Ministerial candidates. Find out more
May 10, 2010 (Denver, CO): Metro Organizations for People (PICO)
and allies win a big victory in the statehouse to restrain pay-day
lending abuses. Find out more
May 6, 2010 (Lafayette, CO): Boulder Valley Community Action,
based at the Boulder Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and
affiliate of Metro Organizations for People (PICO) holds first-ever
MOP action in Boulder County, calling on State Senate President
Brandon Shaffer and Boulder County Commissioner to expand
enrollment of children eligible for heath care programs. More info
April 29, 2010 (Wall Street, NYC): National Peoples Action, PICO
National Network, the AFL-CIO and other citizens group march for
bank regulation and accountability and an end to predatory lending
practices, culminating a week of joint pro-financial reform events
nationwide. Find out more
April 27, 2010 (San Francisco): PICO leaders, labor and community
allies march to present a common set of demands for accountability
at the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting. Find out more
April 14, 2010 (Washington, DC): Leaders from Metro IAF affiliates
in over eight states converge on US Capitol to demand passage of
the Interest Rate Reduction Act. Greater Boston Interfaith
Organization President announces that the state of Washington has
moved funds out of Bank of America for usury. Find out more
March 31, 2010 (Montreal, Canada): Major study to examine
religious diversity and its role in Canadian society is announced on
Interfaithing.com, an extensive online interfaith resource.
March 21, 2010 (Washington, DC): House passes historic Health
Care Reform bill.
March 21, 2010 (Washington, DC): 200,000 rally of the Capitol for
Comprehensive Immigration Reform includes thousands from faith
community. Find out more
March 20, 2010 (cross-country) : PICO's bus caravan arrives for
Reform Immigration for America rally after stops in Ohio, Kansas,
Colorado, Nevada and Colorado, after a month of engaging
thousands of people across the country in a coordinated series of
prayer vigils, press events, town hall meeting and lobbying. Find
out more
Feb. 16, 2010: (Chicago, IL) Gamaliel network newsletter
"Organizing" latest edition is available. Read it or subscribe online
Jan. 15, 2010: New Deadline for DART Organizers Institute! link
December 21, 2009 (Washington DC); Health care reform bill
progresses through the Senate, hailed and criticized by community
and faith leaders.
December 14,2009 (Washington, DC): Faith Leaders of the PICO
network and Sojourners called on the Obama administration to
relieve foreclosures for homeowners who have lost their jobs. Find
out more
November 1-6, 2009: (Brockton and San Francisco, CA) PICO faith
leaders hold town meeting with Chairman Barney Frank to call on
the Treasury to help homeowners who have lost their jobs, and
called on Bank of America to voluntarily modify loans.
November 6-7, 2009: (Chicago) "From Saul Alinsky to Barack
Obama and Beyond.." Chicago Community Organizing Summit by
the Woods Fund of Chicago featured a presentation Seizing the
Moment: Frank Advice for Community Organizers Who Want to
Raise More Money" by Aaron Dorfman of NCRP and Marjorie Fine of
CCC. Read it here
October 16, 2009 (Oklahoma City, OK): Diverse local faith leaders
interviewed on their positive vision for Oklahoma Sponsoring
Committee's community organizing Read it here
October 2, 2009: (national) DART Organizers Institute releases
video on their grassroots community organizer training. DEADLINE
FOR 2010 Institute: Dec. 15, 2010 See the video and find out more
October 2, 2009: Gamaliel Foundation President Ann Smith
condemns the intentional distortion of a video of interfaith prayer by
several media outlets and bloggers, criticizing the "illegitimate"
misinformation, and calls on Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck and others to
apologize to the clergy and congregation members involved.
Read it here
October. 22, 2009: (Walla Walla, WA) Alinsky symposium sparks
topics of community activism and organizing at Whitman college, on
the centennial of Saul Alinsky's birth. Saul's son Dave and others
noted the valuable contribution of community organizing to
democracy. Read about it here in the campus paper.
September 30, 2009: (Minneapolis): Over 100 funders, social
justice organizers and allies attend release event of Strengthening
Democracy Increasing Opportunities report on how 15 Minnesota
organizations leveraged foundation support to bring in $136 in
equivalent benefits for every dollar spend. Link here to the National
Committee on Responsive Philanthropy to learn more
August 19, 2009: (Nationwide): An estimated 140,000 people,
including thousands from the PICO network, were on a historic
national faith community conference call on health care reform with
Pres. Obama. Drawing on the moral imperative of the faith
traditions, the gigantic online Action called on Congress to pass
health insurance reform this fall. Find out more
August 11, 2009: (50 US Cities) the PICO National Network kicked
off the "40 Days of Health Care Reform" with a national action of 50
prayer rallies in 18 states reaching over 100 members of Congress,
and in partnership with Faith in Public Life and other allies,
launched an ad campaign featuring PICO leaders. Find out more
August 1, 2009: (Kansas City, MO) Faith and community leaders
from Communities Creating Opportunity (PICO) and National
Peoples' Action affiliates GRO and Sunflower Community Action
presented a joint platform to Federal Reserve representations,
calling for lending and foreclosure reforms, as part of a national
series of community hearings. Find out more
July 22, 2009: (Five US cities and London): Metro IAF affiliates hold
joint actions to launch 10% is Enough campaign for a 10% cap on
interest rates banks charge in the US and Great Britain, visit the
Metro IAF website for background and media
www.10percentisenough.org
July 15, 2009: (Des Moines, IA) the Register publishes Organize
Communities to Battle Inequality, by Deepak Bhargava, director of
Center for Community Change Find out more
June 24, 2009: (Washington, DC): Interfaith Service of Witness and
Prayer for Health Care attended by a thousand leaders of 40
denominations, organizing networks, and faith organizations,
sponsored by Believe Together: Health Care for All. Find out more
June 11, 2009: (Richmond, CA): Two hundred people from PICO
affiliate Contra Costa Interfaith Sponsoring Community Organization
teamed with National Peoples' Action to kick off a series of Federal
Reserve hearings in ten cities hard hit by foreclosure and financial
crisis. Find out more
June 11, 2009: (Overland Park, KS): A hundred ten leaders gather
for the African American Leadership Assembly of the Gamaliel
Foundation, details in the July 07 edition of Organizing, The
Gamaliel International Newsletter. Find out more
May 11, 2009: (Toledo, OH): Nearly 1200 rallied as TUSA, a DART
affiliate, called for consistent school discipline, green jobs, and
remediation of abandoned housing. Find out more
April 12, 2009: (New York, NY): Community organizing featured as
Career, with such fashion trend setters as Marshall Gans, in the
Style Section of the New York Times.
March 11, 2009 (Washington, DC): CBCOs, other clergy and
churches with the Transportation Equity Network push for stimulus
funds for public transit projects and jobs. Find out more
March 10, 2009: (Antioch, CA to Washington, DC) PICO's "Recovery
Express" cross-country caravan arrives in DC for rallies and lobby
days, after visiting 8 cities hard-hit by the economic crisis. Find out
more
March 6, 2009 (Phoenix, AZ): Arizona Interfaith and ACORN press
for remediation of substandard jail conditions and reform of
immigration practices by notorious local sheriff.
Feb. 5, 2009: (Washington, DC): The Washington Post reports on
the Center for Community Change mobilizing grassroots activists to
maximize the impact of Pres. Obama's first 100 days.
Read more
Feb. 4, 2009: (Washington, DC): As President Obama signs the
Children's Health Care (SCHIP) bill into law, the PICO National
Network celebrates victory for a long campaign with great meaning
for their members. Find out more
January 20, 2009 (Washington, DC): Millions watch as the United
States inaugurates the first President, Barack H. Obama, with
training in community organizing. Read his article on organizing in
Illinois (1990) and find out more about his history with the Gamaliel
Network.
News Archive
GOOD FOR THE SOUL
GOOD FOR THE WHOLE
Resources for funders faith leaders
congregations and researchers showing
how community organizing can strengthen
congregations Link
Inter-Religious Organizing
Initiative (IOI) leadership team strategy
training brings over fifty diverse
denominational and CBCO leaders to
American Baptist College
Find out more
Read the UUA report
GOOD FOR THE WHOLE
Resources for funders faith leaders
congregations and researchers showing
how community organizing can strengthen
congregations Link
Inter-Religious Organizing
Initiative (IOI) leadership team strategy
training brings over fifty diverse
denominational and CBCO leaders to
American Baptist College
Find out more
Read the UUA report
Interfaith Funders in the News
May 2010: Jewish Funds for Justice Sr. VP
of Philanthropic Initiatives responds to
Arizona's new immigration law through lens
of his own complex family history: Jspot.org
April, 2010: IF Founding Director Jeannie
Appleman honored as 2010 Woman of Valor
by the Jewish Funds for Justice
March, 2009 (international): E-Journal USA:
Democracy Heard Around the World: Giving
Citizens a Voice edition. What Do
Community Organizers Do? By Kathy
Partridge, Interfaith Funders
October 15-17, 2008 (Minneapolis, MN):
Forty local and national funders convene for
Focus MN: One State, Twin Cities, Multiple
Perspectives. Link
July 9, 2008 (Boulder, CO): Community
Organizing's influence on the presidential
candidates Interfaith Funders director and
KGNU radio producer Kathy Partridge
interviews Mike Kruglick, Richard Male, and
Marissa Graciosa Hear it now
Congratulations! Jewish Funds for Justice
for your 2008 Gold Metal in the Wilbur Rich
Awards of the Council of Foundations, for
outreach materials on CBCO! We are proud
to have you in Interfaith Funders
Louisiana organizers awarded post-Katrina
respite fellowships; Interfaith Funders
members support Louisiana Disaster
Recovery Foundation effort.
Find out more about the LORA Fellows.
"Youth add their voices to community
organizing" Report on the Interfaith Funders'
Nov. 2005 Los Angeles site visit, in April
2006 Mott Mosaic magazine of the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation. Find out more
"Praise the Lord and Pass the Petition"
Ira Chernus on the Lutheran CBOSS III
(Congregation Based Organizing Strategy
Summit) at TomDispatch of the Nation
Institute 3-1-06. Read the story
May 2010: Jewish Funds for Justice Sr. VP
of Philanthropic Initiatives responds to
Arizona's new immigration law through lens
of his own complex family history: Jspot.org
April, 2010: IF Founding Director Jeannie
Appleman honored as 2010 Woman of Valor
by the Jewish Funds for Justice
March, 2009 (international): E-Journal USA:
Democracy Heard Around the World: Giving
Citizens a Voice edition. What Do
Community Organizers Do? By Kathy
Partridge, Interfaith Funders
October 15-17, 2008 (Minneapolis, MN):
Forty local and national funders convene for
Focus MN: One State, Twin Cities, Multiple
Perspectives. Link
July 9, 2008 (Boulder, CO): Community
Organizing's influence on the presidential
candidates Interfaith Funders director and
KGNU radio producer Kathy Partridge
interviews Mike Kruglick, Richard Male, and
Marissa Graciosa Hear it now
Congratulations! Jewish Funds for Justice
for your 2008 Gold Metal in the Wilbur Rich
Awards of the Council of Foundations, for
outreach materials on CBCO! We are proud
to have you in Interfaith Funders
Louisiana organizers awarded post-Katrina
respite fellowships; Interfaith Funders
members support Louisiana Disaster
Recovery Foundation effort.
Find out more about the LORA Fellows.
"Youth add their voices to community
organizing" Report on the Interfaith Funders'
Nov. 2005 Los Angeles site visit, in April
2006 Mott Mosaic magazine of the Charles
Stewart Mott Foundation. Find out more
"Praise the Lord and Pass the Petition"
Ira Chernus on the Lutheran CBOSS III
(Congregation Based Organizing Strategy
Summit) at TomDispatch of the Nation
Institute 3-1-06. Read the story
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Interfaith Funders
Podcasts:
Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories
of Foundations Maximizing Results
through Social Justice with Marjorie
Fine of the CCC Linchpin Campaign
2nd Wave Community Organizers
Sound Off: It's not your father's
grassroots movement anymore.
AI-Jen Poo, Jared Rivera, James
Mumm, and Ben Ross Download
Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories
of Foundations Maximizing Results
through Social Justice with Marjorie
Fine of the CCC Linchpin Campaign
2nd Wave Community Organizers
Sound Off: It's not your father's
grassroots movement anymore.
AI-Jen Poo, Jared Rivera, James
Mumm, and Ben Ross Download
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July 13-14, 2010 (Boston, MA)
IF summer membership meeting
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