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Edited by Ken Chitwood (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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Community organizing in America is alive and well and being vigorously practiced in the version we call “institution- based community organizing.” This national study shows that in the last decade institution-based community organizing has significantly increased its power base.
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Interfaith Funders (IF) is a network of faith-based and secular funders working to advance the field of congregation-based community organizing with the aim of strengthening democracy and justice. In 2007, after a strategic planning process, we decided we could add value to the field by focusing on some targeted regional initiatives.
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Faith-based community organizing (FBCO) represents a widespread movement to advance the interests of low-income and middle-income neighborhoods and communities throughout the United States (and recently in other countries).
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Read the report, "Renewing Congregations: The Contribution of Faith-Based Community Organizing".
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Read the report, "Good for the Soul Good for the Whole: Faith-Based Community Organizing and the Renewal of Congregations".
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A report of the findings of a national survey conducted by Interfaith Funders, Jericho, NY, January 2001.
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