FBCO NETWORKS

• Direct Action and Research Training Center (DART)
137 N.E. 19th St. Miami, FL 33132  (305)576-8020
www.thedartcenter.org

• Gamaliel Foundation
203 N. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL 60601  (312)357-2639
www.gamaliel.org

• Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
220 West Kinzie, 5th FL Chicago, IL 60610  (312)245-9211
www.industrialareasfoundation.org

• People Improving Communities Through Organizing (PICO)
formerly known as Pacific Institute for Community Organization
171 Santa Rosa Ave. Oakland, CA 99610 (510)655-2801 PICO Network News
www.piconetwork.org

• Regional Council of Neighborhood Organizations
Los Angeles, CA  323-755-1114
www.rcno.org

• InterValley Project
1075 Washington St, W. Newton, MA  02465
www.intervalleyproject.org
FAITH-BASED RESOURCES ON ORGANIZING

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
Congregation-based Community Organizing website
www.elca.org/organizing

• Presbyterian Church USA
Urban Ministry Office website on Community Organizing/Development
www.pcusa.org/evangelism/churchdevelopment/um_cocd.htm

• Unitarian Universalist Association
Congregation-based Community Organizing website,
NEW! UU Guide to CBCO
www.uua.org/programs/justice/cbco.html

• Jewish Funds for Justice
Community Organizing Website
www.jewishjustice.org
see link below for their article: “Faith-Based Community Organizing; A Unique Social Justice
Approach to Revitalizing Synagogue Life"
JFSJ's  J-Spot blog is the spot for Jewish perspectives on contemporary issues of
social and economic justice.  www.jspot.org

• US Conference of Catholic Bishops
Catholic Campaign for Human Development website
www.usccb.org/cchd

• Christians Supporting Community Organizing
For evangelical, Pentecostal and holiness congregations and denominations
www.cscoweb.org

•Faith in Public Life
Extensive resource for faith movements of justice, include mapping, blog, more!
www.faithinpubliclife.org
RESOURCES FOR FUNDERS

• Neighborhood Funders Group
offers Community Organizing Toolbox: A Funders' Guide to Community Organizing
by Larry Parachini and Sally Covington.  http://www.nfg.org/cotb/index.htm
www.nfg.org

• Funders Network on Smart Growth and Liveable Cities
offers Community Organizing: A Populist Base for Social Equity and Smart Growth
by Rich Stolz
www.fundersnetwork.org
OTHER RESOURCES ON ORGANIZING

• Center for Community Change
offers Transforming Lives and Communities: Community Organizing for YOU!
www.communitychange.org

• NEW!   Center for Community Change organizer training website:
Generation Change Leadership Directory.

• Comm-Org - Online Conference on Community Organizing
comm-org.wisc.edu/

• NEW! Mike Miller - organizing consultant
interfaithfunders/mikemiller.html
ARTICLES ON THE WEB
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•  NEW!  Sen. Barak Obama's 1990 "Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the
Inner City" in After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois. http://civic.uis.
edu/Alinsky/AlinskyObamaChapter1990.htm

• “The Skipper Initiative: Building Social Capital in Rochester" by Diane L. Jones and
Paul Speer.  Available from Interfaith Action.  Nov. 2005
www.iapico.org

• “Building Democracy: Faith-Based Community Organization Today”
by Mark Warren  Shelterforce, Jan/Feb. 2001
www.nhi.org/online/issues/115/Warren.html

• "Community Organizing: A Quiet Revolution" Religion Link (Especially for Reporters)
www.religionlink.org/tip_040518c.php  

• “Family, Church, and Neighborhood: Latinos of faith exercising collective power to
improve daily life" by Timothy Matovina.     The Witness Magazine, May 2002
thewitness.org/archive/may2002/matrovina.html

• “Faith-Based Community Organizing; A Unique Social Justice Approach to
Revitalizing Synagogue Life"  by Julie Chizewer Weill and Lee Winkelman
http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2003.weill.htm

• “Organizing Like Jesus: The Politics of Faith-Based Community Organizing”
by Shayna Storm  The Next American City (Issue 3, October 2003)
www.americancity.org/article.php?id_article=71
Interfaith Funders
FBCO Links and Resources