WHAT IS INTERFAITH FUNDERS?
Interfaith Funders (IF) is a network of faith-based and secular grantmakers
committed to social change and economic justice. IF works to advance the field of
congregation-based community organizing (CBCO, also known as Faith-based
Community Organizing, FBCO) and to educate and activate IF members’
constituencies. Membership is open to grantmakers who share our mission and
make a significant commitment to our joint work. Contact us for more information.
Click here for a report on July-December, 2007
Click here to read about the Milestones of Interfaith Funders from pre-1997 through
2007.
Interfaith Funders' current members are:
Each IF member also supports a broad range of community organizing groups in low-
and moderate-income communities around the country, including faith-based groups
and those using other organizing models.
What do we do?
• Collaborative grantmaking IF awarded over $1.8 million in grants to
congregation-based community organizing groups and networks to promote living
wages, school and welfare reform, economic development for impoverished
communities, and organizer recruitment in the field. NO PROPOSALS ARE BEING
ACCEPTED AT THIS TIME;
• Collaborative research IF conducted the first ever field-wide, national study of
CBCO, the findings of which are documented in “Faith-Based Community Organizing:
The State of the Field” (2001). Through its newly published study on congregational
development IF seeks to increase support for and engagement in CBCO among
congregations and faith traditions;
• Strategic convening IF brings together organizers, leaders in faith traditions,
funders, and scholars to discuss the current state and future of the field, and other
topics of mutual interest such as the role of CBCO in strengthening congregations;
and
• Education and outreach sessions IF provides workshops on CBCO at funder
conferences and briefings, and gatherings of faith communities, as well as individual
meetings. IF also offers members valuable networking and internal education.
Staff
Kathy Partridge, Executive Director Bio
committed to social change and economic justice. IF works to advance the field of
congregation-based community organizing (CBCO, also known as Faith-based
Community Organizing, FBCO) and to educate and activate IF members’
constituencies. Membership is open to grantmakers who share our mission and
make a significant commitment to our joint work. Contact us for more information.
Click here for a report on July-December, 2007
Click here to read about the Milestones of Interfaith Funders from pre-1997 through
2007.
Interfaith Funders' current members are:
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America's Division for Church in Society
- One Great Hour of Sharing Fund of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development
- Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
- Jewish Funds for Justice
- The McKnight Foundation
- The Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Dominican Sisters of Springfield
- Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
- C.S. Mott Foundation
- The Needmor Fund
- Linchpin Project of the Center for Community Change
- Unitarian Universalist Funding Panels
Each IF member also supports a broad range of community organizing groups in low-
and moderate-income communities around the country, including faith-based groups
and those using other organizing models.
What do we do?
• Collaborative grantmaking IF awarded over $1.8 million in grants to
congregation-based community organizing groups and networks to promote living
wages, school and welfare reform, economic development for impoverished
communities, and organizer recruitment in the field. NO PROPOSALS ARE BEING
ACCEPTED AT THIS TIME;
• Collaborative research IF conducted the first ever field-wide, national study of
CBCO, the findings of which are documented in “Faith-Based Community Organizing:
The State of the Field” (2001). Through its newly published study on congregational
development IF seeks to increase support for and engagement in CBCO among
congregations and faith traditions;
• Strategic convening IF brings together organizers, leaders in faith traditions,
funders, and scholars to discuss the current state and future of the field, and other
topics of mutual interest such as the role of CBCO in strengthening congregations;
and
• Education and outreach sessions IF provides workshops on CBCO at funder
conferences and briefings, and gatherings of faith communities, as well as individual
meetings. IF also offers members valuable networking and internal education.
Staff
Kathy Partridge, Executive Director Bio
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About Interfaith Funders