Interfaith Funders
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Podcasts:
Change Philanthropy: Candid
Stories of Foundations
Maximizing Results through
Social Justice with Marjorie
Fine of the CCC Linchpin
Campaign
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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
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A network of faith-based and secular grantmakers working to advance the field of
congregation-based community organizing (CBCO), to strengthen democracy and justice
CBCO in the News:
November, 2011: (New Orleans) 500 clergy convene to launch PICO network
national campaign to promote education and decrease violence. Find out more
June 4, 2011: New York Times covers PICO efforts to reform foreclosure
protection. Read the article
May 11, 2011: Chicago, IL: ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson addresses
diverse faith community and organizing leaders of the Interfaith Organizing
Initiative
March 28, 2011: (nationwide) Thousands participated in a nationwide call-in to
State Attorneys General, capping several months of public meetings and direct
actions to press for accountability from banks for foreclosure abuses, organized
by a broad and deep coalition, Showdown in America, lead by the National
Peoples Action and the PICO National Network. Find out more
March 21, 2011: (New Orleans, LA and other cities) PICO clergy and lay
leaders commemorated the signing of health-care legislation into law with a
national call-in and public events in nine cities. Radio ads on religious radio
ran in four key media markets. Find out more.
March 14, 2011: (California) PICO, ACCE, SEIU and other partners launched
statewide campaign to pass state legislation aimed at protecting homeowners
and making banks pay for their share of the housing crisis Find out more
February 28, 2011: (Boston, MA) Over 1000 youth from 14 communities march
on the state capital for increased youth jobs funding, organized by
Massachusetts Communities Action Network
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January 5, 2011: Veteran community organizer Ana Garcia-Ashley has become
the new Executive Director of the Gamaliel Foundation,
the first woman of color to head a national community organizing network,
replacing outgoing director Gregory Galluzzo. Find out more
News Archive
Interfaith Organizing
Initiative
The IOI builds strategic
denominational support for
congregation-based organizing
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Read the UUA report
GOOD FOR THE SOUL
GOOD FOR THE WHOLE
Resources for funders faith
leaders congregations and
researchers showing how
community organizing can
strengthen congregations Link
State of the Field 2012:
national study of
congregation-based
community organizing
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