Energy crackled as 110 COPA leaders from 28 institutions, including Bishop Lucinda Ashby of the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real, filled the room for an honest, wide-ranging conversation with California Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas.

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As Mayor-elect Helena Moreno's transition ramps up, a coalition of community leaders are launching their own transition to hold the mayor-elect and other elected leaders accountable for the promises they made on the campaign trail.

The "People's Transition Team," an initiative of the nonprofit Together New Orleans, will focus on four issue areas identified by city residents the group surveyed — cost of living, public works, jobs and energy.

Concerned with the rampant investment of public funds for private gain, the West/Southwest IAF held a “Public Funds for Public Good” seminar with Labor Economist Teresa Ghilarducci (New School), and Economist Rick McGahey (Schwartz Center). They were joined by 90 leaders representing 10 West/Southwest IAF Organizations.

On October 13th, West/Southwest IAF and Bishop Mark Seitz (Catholic - El Paso) hosted a seminar in El Paso with leaders from across the country to “Reimagine Immigration.” 

Leaders provided historical, political, and data-based context for the anxiety and terror experienced by our immigrant congregants, neighbors, and loved ones, and the impact of current immigration enforcement practices on our institutions. They were joined by panelists Bishop Michael Pham Minhn Cường (Catholic - San Diego), Bishop Jorge Rodríguez (Catholic - Denver), and Bishop Carlo Rapanut (UMC - Phoenix). Special guests included Bob Moore, publisher of El Paso Matters.

Among the rolling hills and luxury ski resorts of Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley, soaring costs of rent and childcare are crushing working families, leading to long commutes, mental stress, and dwindling time with loved ones. 

Realizing that neither the state nor the federal government was coming to save them, Mountain Voices Project (MVP) collaborated with the Confluence Early Childhood Education (CECE) Coalition to tackle this issue head on.

“This is our moment to reimagine Dallas—not as it is, but as its residents want it to be.”

- Pastor Vincent Parker

Over 1,000 people representing over 30 congregations and non-profits from across Dallas united to “Reimagine Dallas” in 2026. Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI)’s event marked the culmination of ten months of organizing focused on transforming Dallas through action on immigration, affordable housing, and quality early childhood education.

Despite the City of Austin's goal of having a park within a 10-minute walk of every resident, there’s a stark difference between the trails and outdoor space enjoyed by wealthy residents and the unmarked lots in under-resourced neighborhoods. This divide became tragically clear during the pandemic, when East and South Side residents faced higher COVID-19 death rates and lacked local outdoor infrastructure for safe social distancing and community building.

To tackle this persistent issue, Central Texas Interfaith (CTI) launched a city-wide listening campaign in 2022. This was part of the first national funding initiative in the U.S. dedicated to supporting community-based power-building to reverse green space inequities.

Credited by the San Antonio Express-News as "the loudest and most organized opposition" to a publicly-funded luxury arena on the ballot, COPS/Metro boosted voter turnout to historic levels and built leverage to negotiate project accountability and labor protections by holding the measure to a slim electoral margin.

In a recent Texas Public Radio discussion featuring prominent local reporters, journalists credited COPS/Metro with earning public trust and making a huge impact on the arena campaign—despite operating with a fraction of the resources available to pro-Prop B forces.

Texas Public Radio host and senior reporter David Martin Davies highlighted the scale of the financial mismatch:

“With very little money, they took on the Spurs… The Spurs spent well over $7 million for their star-studded saturation campaign, and they went toe-to-toe with them.”

Crediting One LA with the idea, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Congressman Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced a broad congressional investigation into civil rights abuses, with the first field hearing to take place in Los Angeles.