Promising Practices and Leadership Profiles

Atlanta

• Interfaith Airport Chaplaincy, Inc.
  Promising Practice: Accommodating and Cooperating at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
• Interfaith Community Institute
  Promising Practice: Traveling Near and Far to Transform Understandings

Boston

• Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group (WWIAG)
  Promising Practice: Responding to Diversity, Building a Culture of Pluralism
• Youth LEAD
  Promising Practice: Creating a Skill Set for Youth to ‘Reflect, Connect, Act’

Cleveland

• Building Bridges
  Promising Practice: Connecting Clevelanders Through ‘Murals with a Mission’
• InterAct Cleveland
  Promising Practice: Dialoguing and Serving to Catalyze Change

Hartford

• Hartford Seminary
  Promising Practice: Breaking Ground and Building Partnerships among Abraham’s Children

Jacksonville

• OneJax
  Promising Practice: Serving as an ‘Ethical Center’ for the Jacksonville Community

Kansas City

• Leadership Profile: The Reverend Vern Barnet
• “The Hindu and the Cowboy…and other Kansas City Stories”
  Promising Practice: Using Theater to Encounter the Religious ‘Other’

Las Vegas

• Family Promise of Las Vegas
  Promising Practice: Working Together to Offer Hospitality and Hope
• Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada
  Promising Practice: Challenging Stereotypes through Conversation and Education

Louisville

• Festival of Faiths
  Promising Practice: Celebrating Diversity and Inspiring Pluralism in Louisville and Beyond

Omaha

• Project Interfaith
  Promising Practice: Cultivating Relationships and Creating Social Media in the Heartland

Philadelphia

• Leadership Profile: Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
• Interfaith Walk for Peace and Reconciliation
  Promising Practice: Taking the Message of Peace to the Streets of Philadelphia

Phoenix

• Arizona Interfaith Movement
  Promising Practice: Leveraging Civic and Commercial Partnerships to Promote the Golden Rule

Richmond

• Leadership Profile: Dr. Imad Damaj
• Interfaith Trialogues
  Promising Practice: Moving from Diversity to Pluralism by Getting to Know Our Neighbors
• Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
  Promising Practice: Amplifying Interfaith Voices to Inspire Political Change

Salt Lake City

• Utah Interfaith Power and Light
  Promising Practice: Combating Climate Change and Promoting Religious Diversity

San Diego

• Leadership Profile: Ms. Gagandeep Kaur
• Interfaith Community Services
  Promising Practice: Coming Together to Meet Community Needs
• San Diego Regional Interfaith Collaborative (SDRIC)
  Promising Practice: Connecting the Dots to Build a Robust Local Interfaith Infrastructure

Spokane

• Leadership Profile: Mr. Skyler Oberst

Syracuse

• Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse (ACTS)
  Promising Practice: Building an Interfaith Coalition for Social Change
• Women Transcending Boundaries
  Promising Practice: Creating Hope Out of Tragedy, One Woman at a Time

Twin Cities

• Leadership Profile: The Reverend Tom Duke
• Downtown Congregations to End Homelessness
  Promising Practice: Addressing Injustice by Engaging Faith for the Common Good
• Interfaith Youth Leadership Coalition
  Promising Practice: Empowering and Equipping Youth for a Multi-Religious World
• Islamic Resource Group
  Promising Practice: Reaching Out to Educate about Islam and to Learn from Each Other
• Secular Bible Study / Circle of Reason
  Promising Practice: Finding Common Ground through Difference

Wichita

• Global Faith in Action
  Promising Practice: Advancing Interfaith Engagement through ‘Dialogue in Action’