Dissertation 4/19/08

Reading Intergroup Relations in the United States: Seven Promising Practices by the National Conference for Community and Justice. They reference several interesting projects:

http://www.global-action.org/main.html
Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

http://www.sff.org/programs/social-justice/faiths-program

What is the FAITHS Program?

The FAITHS Program aims to enhance the work of faith-based organizations that deliver services or advocate for their communities. FAITHS achieves this by connecting faith-based organizations with support from nonprofits and foundations. FAITHS also provides technical and financial assistance to faith-based organizations and holds educational briefings and trainings for faith community leadership. FAITHS serves as a bridge between the philanthropic community and the faith-based community.

FAITHS was founded in 1993 on the premise that congregations and other faith-based organizations are among philanthropy’s strongest partners in the effort to build strong, healthy, and equitable communities. Since its inception, FAITHS has built an interfaith network of more than 600 congregations, faith-based agencies and community organizations that address critical community issues in the five Bay Area counties that The San Francisco Foundation serves (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo). FAITHS provides organizational capacity building workshops throughout the year for congregations and faith-based organizations engaged in community-serving activities such as: affordable housing, disaster preparedness, inter-group relations, job training, senior services, and youth development. Working with other foundation partners, FAITHS administers small grant pools to complement its technical assistance and civic engagement work.

Getting Involved

A FAITHS Program Leadership Group of clergy and lay leaders, reflecting the diversity of the Bay Area faith community, determines the general direction of the FAITHS Program projects, grantmaking, and capacity building activities. Other community leaders also provide significant guidance to the FAITHS Program through issue-specific working groups focused on issues such as disaster preparedness and immigration reform.

Congregations or faith-based organizations interested in learning more about these programs should contact the FAITHS Program Team:

Tessa Rouverol Callejo
FAITHS Program Coordinator
415.733.8541
trc@sff.org

Michelle Myles Chambers
FAITHS/Social Justice Program Assistant
415.733.8539
mmc@sff.org