Jackson, MI - Before Working Together Jackson stepped in, a local job training effort that had begun in 2015 was retaining only 19% of its 16 students. By the end of 2016, after WTJ leaders began collaborating with local businesses and schools, enrollment grew to 200, with a retention rate of 93%. Twenty students have now graduated into employment paying $15 - 22 per hour.

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Albuquerque Leaders Instrumental in Bond Election

VIP & Arizona IAF Leaders Fight for School Funding

Civic Engagement

California IAF Trains Episcopal Seminarians

Berkeley, CA -

Leaders Build Momentum in Front Range, Denver

Denver, CO -

IEF Seminars Engage Leaders, Academics

Danielle Allen - Our Declaration

Jeremy Adelman - Worldly Philosopher

Glenn Loury - Anatomy of Racial Inequality

Luke Bretherton & Charles Mathewes - Faithful Citizenship

Dallas, TX - Professors Luke Bretherton (author of Resurrecting Democracy: Faith Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life) and Charles Mathewes (author of Theology of Public Life) met with leaders and organizers for engaging conversation about the intersection of faith and citizenship, and its application in public life. Dallas, TX - Professors Luke Bretherton (author of Resurrecting Democracy: Faith Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life) and Charles Mathewes (author of Theology of Public Life) met with leaders and organizers for engaging conversation about the intersection of faith and citizenship, and its application in public life.

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put their reputation on the line when they threw their weight behind a $575 Million school bond. They organized Get Out The Vote walks and published op-eds reminding voters that the organization had not only passed a bond in 2003, they stopped district officials from unlawfully diverting those funds. The bond passed with +65% support.Looking for a way to create a “tighter fit between the life of faith and public life,” the Very Reverend W. Mark Richardson of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) in Berkeley turned to theto help train its seminarians. The Church Divinity School of the Pacific now not only offers the 6-day course every January, it participates as a member in the Bay Area IAF.On a bitterly cold December evening, 100+ leaders from 19 institutions gathered at Cleaves Memorial CME Church to pledge their time, money and talent to a new IAF presence in Denver & Front Range, Colorado. Synagogue, labor union, neighborhood association and mainline denominational leaders publicly committed to each other to grow the effort in 2017 .Leaders and organizers across the West / Southwest IAF network convened for Interfaith Education Fund seminars organized with:Los Angeles, CA - Dr. Danielle Allen, Harvard University political theorist and author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in the Defense of Equality argues that equality was as important as freedom to our Founding Fathers. Leaders read, reflected and told their own stories of local fights for both.Los Angeles, CA - A seminar with Princeton University Professor of History Jeremy Adelman afforded organizers and leaders the opportunity to learn about the life and impact of Albert O. Hirschman, a development economist and original thinker on loyalty, agency and action.San Francisco, CA - Brown University Professor Glenn Loury's focus on long-term impacts of disparities in educational opportunities and racial outcomes on incarceration rates provided much perspective to participating leaders and organizers who soon returned home to address,with nuance and judgment, police and civilian shootings in their cities.