Community Organizing

What do you get when you mix punk rockers with senior citizens?

Catholic Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize—a first for an African woman and a first for environmentalism

Rose Marie Berger, 1-01-2003

Who do you call when the marshals have tossed all your belongings on the sidewalk and you need a place to spend the night?

For organizers: Theology 101.
Organizing around common values
Bronwyn Shiffer 3-01-2000
Women's project leads to transformation.
Helene Slessarev 3-01-2000

Faith-based community organizing is taking off---with benefits for both community and church.

Helene Slessarev 3-01-2000

Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), a faith-based organizing network in Baltimore, won the first municipal living wage ordinance in the country in 1994.

Helene Slessarev 3-01-2000

The East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC) literally have rebuilt an entire community by securing the funding to erect 2,300 single family homes in a devastated section of Oceanhill-Brownsville...

Perry Bush 9-01-1998
For a century and a half, workers and church people have organized together.
Kent Paterson 9-01-1998
Sewer Pipes and Hope
Jeffrey Brown 3-01-1998
A community responds to violence.
Peter Wirth 7-01-1995
Neighbors work together to take back their streets.
Susan Meeker-Lowry 5-01-1995
Building hope in the inner city of Boston