WHO ARE 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
institution-based community organizing (IBCO, also known
as Congregation-based, Faith-based, and Broad-based)
and to educate and activate IF members’ constituencies.
Membership is open to entities who share our mission and
make a significant commitment to our joint work.
Click here to read early Milestones of Interfaith Funders.
Interested in Joining? click here
Interfaith Funders' membership:
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.
secular grantmakers committed to social change and
economic justice. IF works to advance the field of
institution-based community organizing (IBCO, also known
as Congregation-based, Faith-based, and Broad-based)
and to educate and activate IF members’ constituencies.
Membership is open to entities who share our mission and
make a significant commitment to our joint work.
Click here to read early Milestones of Interfaith Funders.
Interested in Joining? click here
Interfaith Funders' membership:
- Evangelical Lutheran Church In America's Division
for Church in Society - One Great Hour of Sharing Fund: Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) - Catholic Campaign for Human Development
- Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter
Rock - Jewish Funds for Justice
- The McKnight Foundation
- Maine Initiatives
- New York Foundation
- The Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Dominican Sisters of Springfield
- Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
- C.S. Mott Foundation
- The Needmor Fund
- The Sister Fund
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.
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About Us
Staff
Kathy Partridge, Executive Director
Bio
Dr. Richard Wood, Research Director
Brad Fulton, State of the FIeld
Project Researcher
Kathy Partridge, Executive Director
Bio
Dr. Richard Wood, Research Director
Brad Fulton, State of the FIeld
Project Researcher
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
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