Community Renewal

Around the United States you will find remarkable examples of highly creative, locally driven transformation of whole communities or regions.  While these stories of renewal occur in all kinds of places, a common thread is apparent to the discerning eye.  San Antonio , Baltimore, the Rio Grande Valley, Greater Boston, El Paso, East Brooklyn, Tucson... vastly different but all much better off because because broad based community organizing as embodied by the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) partnered in the building of powerful organizations of organizations with local leaders of all faiths and backgrounds. 

The gold standard of broad based community organization is enduring community transformation.  Many IAF organizations meet this standard in ways that are concrete, measurable and long term.  All exemplify change driven from below, informed by democratic and religious values aimed in directions that claimed new ground of community betterment.

These inspiring successes often happen largely outside of mass media attention as the careful work of relationship building only occasionally merits headlines.