Engage Your Faith Community

Innovation doesn't mean reinventing the wheel if the wheel is already working! Faith communities can be a powerful force for spreading transformative ideas. How is your community trying to live out its calling? What systemic problems are you seeing around you? All of the organizations below have innovated solutions to widespread social problems and have ways for you to engage in helping realize those solutions. They are all either faith-based or faith-friendly, meaning they already work closely with faith communities or are interested in doing so.

Search by topic or just browse. Learn more about the work and opportunities by visiting the websites of the individual organizations. When you find something you think will bring a needed solution to your community, build a team and make it happen!

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Freely in Hope

The Giving Square

Community Solutions

Welcoming America

GreenFaith

Girl Trek

The People's Supper

Generation to Generation

Safe Families for Children

Peace First

The Conversation Project

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) (Chicago, Atlanta)

NDN Collective

Faith Matters Network

TurboVote

Leadership Foundations

Camp to Belong

The Expectations Project

Miracle Messages

Public Lab

Campaign for Hospitality

Just Homes (Washington, DC)

Living the Change

GoodLands

Earth Guardians

Keshet

Lawyers & Collars

Opportunities Gallery

Freely in Hope equips survivors and advocates to lead in ending the cycle of sexual violence. We are survivors, advocates, scholars, and leaders who live freely because we are no longer victimized by the pain of the past. Together, we are getting closer and closer to the day sexual violence is history—believing that hope is always present.

www.freelyinhope.org

The Giving Square advances the democratic ideals of equality and civic responsibility by recognizing children as leaders for a new model of philanthropy, one grounded in our natural empathetic connections to the experiences and needs of others. We envision a world where communities thrive because everyone, especially children, are active, empathetic, and impactful contributors to society.

www.thegivingsquare.org

We don’t simply believe that all communities have the power to end homelessness — we work with the cities and counties making it a reality every day. Community Solutions is a nonprofit that leads Built for Zero, a movement of more than 80 cities and counties using data to radically change how they work and the impact they can achieve — and proving that it is possible to make homelessness rare and brief.

www.community.solutions

Welcoming America leads a movement of inclusive communities becoming more prosperous by making everyone feel like they belong. We believe that all people, including immigrants, are valued contributors who are vital to the success of our communities and shared future.

www.welcomingamerica.org

GreenFaith is an interfaith coalition for the environment. We work with houses of worship, religious schools and people of all faiths to help them become better environmental stewards. GreenFaith’s mission is to inspire, educate and mobilize people of diverse religious backgrounds for environmental leadership.

www.greenfaith.org

GirlTrek is the largest public health nonprofit for African-American women and girls in the United States. With nearly 100,000 neighborhood walkers, GirlTrek encourages women to use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living, families, and communities. As women organize walking teams, they mobilize community members to support monthly advocacy efforts and lead a civil rights-inspired health movement.

www.girltrek.org

We aim to repair the breach in our interpersonal relationships across political, ideological, and identity differences, leading to more civil discourse. And, we plan to do it in the most nourishing way we know – over supper!

www.thepeoplessupper.org

Powered by Encore.org, the Gen2Gen campaign helps people over 50 find new ways to improve the lives of young people who need champions. Join us today by pledging to help young people thrive.

www.generationtogeneration.org

Safe Families for Children surrounds families in crisis with caring, compassionate community. We are a volunteer-driven nonprofit that provides hope and support to families in our local communities. Located in 70 cities across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and beyond, we are motivated by faith to keep children safe and families intact.

www.safe-families.org

An innovative digital platform for social change, the Peace First Challenge invites young people (13 – 24) from across the globe to identify a critical issue in their community and then puts project design tools, caring adult mentors, and small start-up grants into their hands to imagine and implement compassionate solutions to our globe’s most urgent problems.

www.peacefirst.org

Too many people are dying in a way they wouldn’t choose, and too many of their loved ones are left feeling bereaved, guilty, and uncertain. The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. We believe that the place for this to begin is at the kitchen table—not in the intensive care unit—with the people we love, before it’s too late.

www.theconversationproject.org

The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness and healing in the inner-city by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center.

www.imancentral.org

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.

www.ndncollective.org

The Faith Matters Network centers the voices of leaders who have traditionally been pushed to the margins of religious narratives. It is a people of color led collective working to equip 21st century faith leaders with the tools to build healthy, equitable communities.

www.faithmattersnetwork.org

We make voting easy. We make sure you always know when elections are happening, and have the information you need to vote with confidence. Sign up to receive election reminders, get registered to vote, & apply for your absentee ballot!

www.turbovote.org

Every city has the potential to be a playground instead of a battlefield. A community full of growth, opportunity, safety, love and joy. Leaders and organizations all over the world are working to achieve this vision in their cities through social and spiritual renewal. Leadership Foundations discovers these leaders, develops their skillsets, and empowers them to be more effective.

www.leadershipfoundations.org

Camp To Belong (CTB) is an international non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to reuniting brothers and sisters who have become separated in foster care through a week of camp in the summer and other events throughout the year.

www.camptobelong.org

The Expectations Project mobilizes people of faith to demand excellent public schools for Black, Brown and other marginalized children. We empower people of faith to act nationally and locally to eliminate education inequality.

www.expectations.org

Miracle Messages is a nonprofit on a mission to end relational poverty on our streets. Volunteers record short messages from their homeless neighbors to their loved ones. Then, over 1,000 digital detectives attempt to deliver the Miracle Message via social media. To end homelessness, we must rebuild social homes as much as affordable housing. Miracle Messages reunites the homeless with their loved ones, and the rest of us as their neighbors. Our goal is to end relational poverty on our streets.

www.miraclemessages.org

Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms.

www.publiclab.org

The Campaign for Hospitality invites the Jesuit and broader Catholic network in the United States and Canada to get to know people in our countries with recent stories of migration. Together, we will reflect on our common human dignity and values to create more welcoming communities and nations. Campaign members (schools, parishes, communities, individuals, etc.) commit to engaging in at least one encounter, understand, and action opportunity each year.

www.ignatiansolidarity.net/campaignforhospitality

Our mission is to mobilize and equip churches in D.C. to collectively meet the city’s housing needs. We aim to answer the question of how to help in the housing sphere and make connections between churches doing this work. We provide opportunities for these churches to come together, assess their resources, and discern what part they can play.

www.justhomesdc.org

Living the Change is a a globally-connected community of religious and spiritual institutions working together with sustainable consumption experts to champion and mobilize sustainable ways of life.

www.livingthechange.net

GoodLands is mobilizing the Catholic Church to use her land for good. We provide the information and tools to help the Church use her property wisely to enhance all her existing ministries and missions — to care for creation, to end homelessness, to welcome the stranger, to deliver programs and services to the right places and at the right times, and to support her own fiscal sustainability.

www.good-lands.org

Earth Guardians trains diverse youth to be effective leaders in the environmental, climate and social justice movements across the globe - using art, music, storytelling, on the ground projects, civic engagement and legal action to advance solutions to the critical issues we face as a global community.

www.earthguardians.org

By strengthening Jewish communities and equipping Jewish organizations with the skills and knowledge they need to make all LGBTQ Jews feel welcome, we work to ensure the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life. We also create spaces in which all queer Jewish youth feel seen and valued and advance LGBTQ rights nationwide.

www.keshetonline.org

Sojourners, Skinner Leadership Institute, and the National African American Clergy Network are partnering to defend the right to vote and to combat voter suppression tactics that compromise the vision and the values of our democracy. Through this effort we will be educating and equipping African American Clergy with the needed tools and resources to protect members of their communities from unjust efforts that prevent eligible voters from exercising their right to vote.