Faith-Based Organizations

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...

Labor activists and people of faith rally around 'core values.'
Fred Glennon 9-01-1999
Moving from a "welfare state" to a "welfare society."
Jim Wallis 9-01-1999

The emergence of the term "faith-based organization" in political discussion (and its acronym FBO) may signal one of the most significant new developments in American public life.