I‘ve just put together a class on congregation-based community organizing. I thought I would share a list of resources for you in case you are looking to connect your church, synogogue or mosque to a community organizing effort.

Here are three of the well-known national community organizing institutes who work with congregations (I’m sure there are more out there):

• Direct Action and Training Research Center (DART)

• Pacific Institute for Community Organizing

• Gamaliel Foundation

• Jewish Fund for Justice

In addition, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has an excellent page on congregation based community organizing. I would also direct your attention to comm.org’s website which has a 2001 study on the congregation-based community organizing.

Ron Snyder, an organizer for PICO, recently published an article in the New Directions for Youth Development journal, about the work of Oakland Community Organizations and their ability to empower low-income Oakland, CA parents to pressure educational reform in local public schools.

Finally, Jewish Funds for Justice has an excellent video that I embedded in this post on YouTube.