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What is Faith-Based Community Organizing Faith-Based Community Organizing is a strategy for re-building communities, revitalizing congregations, and developing individuals into effective leaders and change agents.” What are we doing? A.C.T.S. seeks to become a powerful grassroots, interfaith, interracial, multi-issue network of faith communities working together to create a more democratic society. How did all of this begin? This type of community organizing began in Chicago in 1938. Saul Alinsky created the “Back of the Yards Community Council.” The organization successfully engaged people from diverse backgrounds to change the conditions of the community.
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