Industrial Areas Foundation

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The IAF develops organizations that use power - organized people and organized money - in effective ways. The secret to the IAF's success lies in its commitment to identify, recruit, train, and develop leaders in every corner of every community where IAF works. The IAF is indeed a radical organization in this specific sense: it has a radical belief in the potential of the vast majority of people to grow and develop as leaders, to be full members of the body politic, to speak and act with others on their own behalf. And IAF does indeed use a radical tactic: the face-to-face, one-to-one individual meeting whose purpose is to initiate a public relationship and to re-knit the frayed social fabric.

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Common ground: Sherman Park residents push for improvements The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/28/2009 ...development, health care and immigration. Common Ground is part of a national network affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation, the oldest and largest organizing institution in the country that's dedicated to training and developing... ...more

Priest helps flock fight foreclosures Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 8/8/2009 ...lose everything they had worked for spurred the Rev. Lasseigne to find a solution. Teaming up with One LA-Industrial Areas Foundation and Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, the Rev. Lasseigne has lobbied congressmen, councilmen... ...more

Community organizing, Marin style Pacific Sun; 10/30/2009 ...fives in the tradition of Saul Alinsky and the Industrial Areas Foundation, which he founded in the 1930s. Alinsky believed...community." An essential belief of the MOC and the Industrial Areas Foundation is that citizens of a community must do more... ...more