The Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) is a national

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network established in 1940 by

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, Roman Catholic Bishop

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and businessman and founder of the ''

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. The IAF partners with religious congregations and civic organizations at the local level to help them build organizations of organizations, referred to as broad-based organizations by the Industrial Areas Foundation, with the purpose of strengthening citizen leadership, developing trust across a community's dividing lines and taking action on issues identified by local community leaders. The Industrial Areas Foundation consists of 65 affiliates in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia, with the US projects organized into two regions
West / Southwest IAF
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Metro IAF
IAF provides training, consultation and organizers for its affiliated organizations. The Industrial Areas Foundation does not provide direct services, but through its organizing has created notable entities for

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(Project QUEST, Capital IDEA, Project IOWA, VIDA, ARRIBA, NOVA, Skills Quest, Capital IDEA - Houston, AZ Career Pathways and JobPath), healthcare (Common Ground Healthcare), and housing development for working- and middle-class families (Nehemiah Project in East Brooklyn and The Road Home Program in New Orleans). In 1994, the IAF organization in Baltimore designed and passed the first living wage bill in the US, and since then IAF organizations across the country have won changes including municipal living wage policies for public sector workers and living wage requirements for tax abatements or economic incentives, that have raised the wages of millions of workers.

History

Under Alinsky

Alinsky's first organizing project was organizing the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, founded in 1939 as the Packinghouse Workers, the union of Chicago's meatpacking industry. Based on his work with Back of the Yards, Alinsky laid out his vision for "People's Organizations" in his book ''Reveille for Radicals'', in 1946. After World War II, Alinsky met Fred Ross in California, and in 1949 he agreed to back his plan to organize the

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in Mexican-American communities. Ross introduced house meetings as an organizing technique and built a network of 30 CSOs in California with energetic young organizers Cesar Chávez and

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. In Chicago, Alinsky developed a team of organizers including journalist

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, ex-seminarian Edward T. Chambers, and

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, who developed such groups as the Organization for the Southwest Community (1959–1972), The Woodlawn Organization (1961–present), and the Northwest Community Organization (1962–present). The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) received national attention through Charles Silberman's best-selling ''Crisis in Black and White'' in 1964, which traced the roots of oppression and violence in northern inner-city areas. In his concluding chapter, "The Revolt Against Welfare Colonialism," Silberman portrayed TWO as an example of poor blacks reclaiming their dignity through self-organization and creating their own jobs, instead of blaming whites for all their problems. Alinsky's experience in Rochester, New York from 1965 to 1969 with the organization FIGHT and its battle with

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was more controversial and less successful. In 1969, Alinsky was able to establish a formal IAF organizer training program, run by Chambers and Dick Harmon, with a grant from Gordon Sherman of

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. Alinsky published a successful book, ''Rules for Radicals'', in 1971, updating his earlier vision. Alinsky died unexpectedly of a heart attack in June 1972.

After Alinsky

After Alinsky's death, his long-time associate and designated successor Ed Chambers, became executive director. Chambers began to place systematic training of organizers and local leaders at the center of IAF's work. He also began to shift the organizing model of "the modern IAF"''IAF: 50 Years Organizing for Change'', p. 7. toward the congregation-based community organization developed in

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Ernesto Cortes Ernesto Cortés, Jr. is the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) co-chair and executive director of the West / Southwest IAF regional network. The IAF provides leadership training and civics education to poor and moderate-income people across the US ...

Jr., called

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(COPS). Cortes recruited lay leaders, including many women, from the Catholic parishes that were members of COPS.

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s or "one-on-ones" became an important technique of exploring values, motivation, and self-interest of potential leaders. Chambers and Cortes emphasized a long-term relationship between IAF and such groups as COPS, in contrast to the "three years and out" that Alinsky had once imagined.Horwitt, ''Let Them Call Me Rebel'', p. 545. As IAF began to expand to other cities in Texas, it moved to develop multi-racial, broad-based organizations spanning metropolitan areas, and including African American, Latino, and Anglo churches. Eventually its network of local groups in Texas linked together as Texas Interfaith to influence state government. In 1979 Chambers moved the IAF headquarters to New York after the

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cut its support for IAF. In 1996 IAF moved its national headquarters back to Chicago to develop a new affiliate in that metropolitan area and expand its work in the South, Southwest and Midwest. IAF developed successful projects along the

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with

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, which pioneered the affordable housing project called Nehemiah Homes, and BUILD in

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which also developed Nehemiah housing for low-income people. The "modern IAF" has been an influential model for other networks of broad-based community organizations, including

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, and

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(DART). IAF claims responsibility for the success of the first

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in 1994, followed by

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in 1996, Tucson in 1998, the Rio Grande Valley in the late 1990s and early 2000s and, most recently, in Austin, Texas.

Governance

IAF's legal authority rests in a Board of Trustees, which functions more as an advisory body, recently including such notables as

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and the late Monsignor John Joseph Egan. IAF's first Board of Trustees included Catholic bishop

, Kathryn Lewis (daughter of coal miners union leader

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), and philanthropist

. Chambers retired as executive director in 2009, but remains on the board of directors. The senior regional organizers, including Cortes, Arnold Graf,

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, and Sr. Christine Stephens, for a time acted as a team of co-directors. Recently IAF has divided itself administratively into two parts: West/Southwest IAF (Cortes and Stephens) and Metro IAF in the East and Midwest (Graf and Gecan).

Training

The national IAF conducts an intensive eight-day leadership training program annually, alternating the venue between Chicago and Los Angeles, and also has a 90-day organizer internship program. IAF's "iron rule of organizing" ("Never do for others what they can do for themselves")''IAF: 50 Years Organizing for Change'', p. 17. emphasizes developing new leaders from within local organizations.

Affiliates

IAF affiliates with web pages are listed below. East
Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO)
– Boston, Massachusetts
Interfaith Community Organization (ICO)
–

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Washington Interfaith Network (WIN)
–

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Action in Montgomery (AIM)
–

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Baltimoreans United for Leadership Development (BUILD)
–

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People Acting Together in Howard (PATH)
–

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Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE)
–

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Metro IAF NY
– New York *
East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC)
*
Manhattan Together
** EQUAL - Empowered Queens United in Action and Leadership (EQUAL) *
South Bronx Churches
*
LI-CAN - Long Island Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods
*
Westchester United
South
Durham Congregations, Associations, and Neighborhoods (Durham CAN)
–

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* Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE) –

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Orange County Justice United in Community Effort (Orange JUICE or JUSTICE UNITED)
–

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Working Together Jackson
in

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Midwest
Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC)
–

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DuPage United
–

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Lake County United
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United Power for Action and Justice
–

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Omaha Together One Community (OTOC)
–

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Dane County United
–

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Southeastern Wisconsin Common Ground
–

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A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy (AMOS)
–

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Voices Organized In Civic Engagement (VOICE-OKC)
in

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Southwest
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The Jeremiah Group
–

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Together Baton Rouge
in

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Albuquerque Interfaith
–

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Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI)
–

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Allied Communities of Tarrant (ACT)
–

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The Metropolitan Organization (TMO)
–

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Arizona Interfaith Organization
–

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Austin Interfaith
–

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Border Interfaith
–

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COPS/Metro Alliance
in

Nevadans for the Common Good
in Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
Northern Arizona Interfaith Council
in

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Pima County Interfaith Council
in

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Valley Interfaith Project
in

West
One LA – IAF
–

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Bay Area Industrial Areas Foundation
–

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Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action
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Inland Empire Sponsoring Committee
Pomona, CA &

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Northwest
Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG)
–

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Sound Alliance
–

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Spokane Alliance
–

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International
Greater Edmonton Alliance
–

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Calgary Alliance for the Common Good
– Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Metro Vancouver Alliance
– Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Greater Victoria Acting Together
– Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Citizen Organizing Foundation (COF)
–

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Sydney Alliance
–

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Queensland Community Alliance
–

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Deutsches Institut für Community Organizing Germany

Notes

References

* Alinsky, Saul, ''Reveille for Radicals'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946). *Alinsky, Saul, ''Rules for Radicals'' (New York: Vintage Books, 1971). * Chambers, Edward T. and Michael A. Cowan, ''Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice'' (New York: Continuum, 2003). * Gecan, Michael, ''Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action'' (New York: Anchor Books, 2002). * Greider, William, ''Who Will Tell the People?'' (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1992). *Horwitt, Sanford D., ''Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky- His Life and Legacy'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989). *Industrial Areas Foundation, ''IAF: 50 Years Organizing for Change'' (Franklin Square, NY: Industrial Areas Foundation, 1990). *Osterman, Paul, ''Gathering Power'' (Boston, MA: Beacon Press) 2002. *Penta, Leo (Hrsg.), ''Community Organizing - Menschen verändern ihre Stadt'' (Hamburg: edition Körber-Stiftung, 2007). *Rogers, Mary Beth, ''Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics'' (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1990). *Sanders, Marion K., ''The Professional Radical: Conversations with Saul Alinsky'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1970). *Stout, Jeffrey, ''Blessed Are the Organized'' (Princeton University Press, 2010). *Walls, David, ''Community Organizing: Fanning the Flame of Democracy '' (Polity Press, 2015). *Warren, Mark R., ''Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy'' (Princeton University Press, 2001). *Wilson, William Julius, ''Bridge Over the Racial Divide'' (University of California Press, 2001).

External links

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