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Christine Stephens & Ernie Cortes Reflect on Life of Edward Chambers

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · May 07, 2015 11:58 AM
In a New Yorker piece by Samuel Freedman, Industrial Areas Foundation co-chair Ernesto Cortes and Sr. Christine Stephens reflect on the life and spirit of Edward Chambers, the long-time executive director of the IAF that led it to to become the premier community organizing network in the US and around the world.

"Ed believed in the mission of the church, and I don't just mean the Roman Catholic Church," Sister Christine Stephens, a member of Chambers's leadership team in the I.A.F., said. "That mission involved dealing with people who are on the margins, people who don't have power."

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Austin Leaders Leverage $2.38M in Youth Investments

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · September 14, 2013 10:43 AM
After founding Prime Time, an after-school program, Austin Interfaith fought for its continued funding."Austin Interfaith worked from the ground up to get its priorities included in the budget....It represents the interests of low-income families and has become a familiar presence at City Hall in recent years. Austin Interfaith leaders mobilized members to show up en masse to city budget hearings to plug these programs, meet with council members and bombard council offices with calls and emails in the days leading up to the final budget vote. The nonprofit was elated that council members agreed to spend money on all of Austin Interfaith's priorities, totaling $2.4 million."

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NYT Cites Capital IDEA-Houston as Factor in Class Mobility

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · July 22, 2013 11:37 AM

"Houston is one of the few southern cities where upward social mobility is as high as cities in the Northeast and West... Roughly 22 percent of Houston children who grew up in the poorest fifth of the national income distribution have ended up in the top two-fifths today, according to the study.

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Austin Interfaith Weighs in on Health Insurance Exchange

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · July 19, 2013 5:41 PM

"Texas officials have declined to establish a state-based health insurance marketplace, a major provision of the federal Affordable Care Act. So private organizations are working to educate Texans about coverage options through the federal health insurance exchange, which opens on Oct. 1....The department will also finance at least two "navigators" — organizations intended to guide people through the exchange — per state.

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AMOS Wins $200K for Project IOWA Training: Governor Signs Bill

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 25, 2013 4:36 PM
Photo of AMOS leaders at Governor's Signing of $100K for Project IowaRepublican Governor Terry Branstad of Iowa signed into law a bill that will appropriate $100,000 per year for Project IOWA for the next two years. Project IOWA is a labor market intermediary that prepares adults for dignified participation in the labor market by training for jobs that already exist, and thus also helping employers find motivated and skilled workers. Project IOWA was established with the support of AMOS to better address the jobs -skills mismatch in the state.


Common Ground Launches with 1,500 Delegates in Vallejo, CA

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 24, 2013 6:02 PM

"An enthusiastic crowd of about 1,500 people filled a Vallejo high school gym Sunday afternoon to welcome a new multi-county organization to the community.

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Yuma County Interfaith Fights for Immigration Reform & Medicaid

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · May 29, 2013 11:47 AM
Bishop Gerald F. "Kicanas joined nearly 100 members of churches of different denominations from the area who gathered ... to organize a campaign in favor of not only a new immigration law but also efforts of Gov. Jan Brewer to expand the state's health program for the poor: the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)....

Kicanas' appeal came as he spoke to members of Yuma County Interfaith, a faith-based group whose leaders and members represent a variety of religious denominations in the area."

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Together Baton Rouge Launches Community Scripture Studies

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · May 18, 2013 11:54 AM
"Together Baton Rouge volunteers have worked to clean up the Gilbert Memorial Park Cemetery, to launch with the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank...and to advocate for reliable funding and better administration for the Capital Area Transit System.

With this new community Bible study program, the purposes are to 'develop relationships across the lines that divide us' and embrace 'the call of Scripture to act in the world today,' Wesley said."

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Cortes Honored at Harvard for Restoring American Democracy

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · October 15, 2012 1:58 PM
"Ernesto Cortés Jr. has spent nearly 40 years teaching the disenfranchised how to communicate their stories in ways that assert their place in the world.

As co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation...he has taught thousands of people how to harness and direct their anger by helping them to organize with others to change conditions around them.... For those efforts, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) presented its annual Robert Coles "Call of Service" Award to Cortés on Friday in the Memorial Church.

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Working Together Jackson

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · June 27, 2012 9:29 AM

Jackson Free Press

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