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 DART (The Direct Action and Training Center)
Established in 1982 by its current Executive Director John Calkins. DART has affiliate organizations in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia. DART is committed to building powerful, diverse, congregation-based and democratically-run organizations capable of winning justice on issues facing the community. As people of faith, God requires us to "do justice" , but our congregations lack the power to challenge and redeem the economic, political and social systems that create and perpetuate injustice. DART ’ s mission is to engage congregations in a process of building congregation-based community organizations that have the power to pursue and win justice. Learn more about DART at their website: www.thedartcenter.org [TOP]
 Gamaliel
Established in 1986 by its current Executive Director Gregory Galluzzo, Gamaliel has affiliate organizations in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and South Africa. The mission of Gamaliel Foundation is to assist local community leaders to create, maintain and expand independent, grassroots, and powerful faith-based community organizations so that ordinary people can impact the political, social, economic, and environmental decisions that affect their lives. Gamaliel provides these organizations with leadership training programs, consultation, research and analysis on social justice issues. Learn more at www.gamaliel.org [TOP]
 IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation)
Founded by Saul Alinsky in the 1940’s, IAF was re-established in 1972 by its current Executive Director Edward Chambers. IAF has affiliate organizations in Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. IAF builds a political base within society's rich and complex third sector – that of voluntary institutions including religious congregations, labor locals, homeowner groups, recovery groups, parents associations, settlement houses, immigrant societies, schools, seminaries, orders of men and women religious, and others. IAF leaders and organizers build organizations whose primary purpose is power - the ability to act - and whose chief product is social change. Learn more at www.industrialareasfoundation.org [TOP]
 IVP (Inter Valley Project)
Begun in 1983 when the first IVP group was organized, several groups formalized their working relationship in 1997 with the hiring of current Executive Director Ken Galdston. IVP has affiliate organizations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. IVP organizations unite low- to moderate-income families and their allies across lines of religion, race, ethnicity, class, age and help them build power for participation in civil and economic life. Where it makes sense, IVP groups use democratic economic development strategies as well. These have led to the creation of worker-owned firms, community land trusts, and resident-owned housing developments. Learn more at www.intervalleyproject.org [TOP]
 PICO (People Improving Communities through Organizing)
Established in 1972 by Father John Bauman and now served by Executive Director Scott Reed, PICO has affiliate organizations in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Central America, and Rwanda. At the center of PICO’s model of faith-based community organizing is a belief in the potential for transformation – of people, institutions, and our larger culture. This belief stems directly from PICO’s rootedness in faith communities, and radiates throughout the organization, influencing the way PICO relates to public officials, to community members, and to one another. Learn more at www.piconetwork.org [TOP]
 RCNO (Regional Congregations and Neighborhood Organizations)
RCNO’s was Established in 1987 in Philadelphia, and is served by Executive Director Eugene Williams, with affiliates in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. In the absence of bold national leadership that might have addressed racial disparities and the need to revitalize poor communities, RCNO's founders determined that movement building was needed to bring some measure of attention, respect and social justice to neglected African American neighborhoods. Concentrating their work in urban and low-income African American communities, RCNO has created a model for isolated churches and community groups to come together in a purposeful faith-based learning network that would extend their ministry beyond church walls to provide critical community services, while also building political power to make lasting policy change. Learn more at www.rcno.org [TOP] |