About the Industrial Areas FoundationIndustrial Areas FoundationIAF_0fc51dac-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea00Founded in 1940, the Industrial Areas Foundation is the nation's largest and longest-standing network of local faith and community-based organizations.Local Faith-Based OrganizationsCommunity-Based OrganizationsReligious CongregationsThe IAF partners with religious congregations and civic organizations at the local level to build broad-based organizing projects, which create new capacity in a community for leadership development, citizen-led action and relationships across the lines that often divide our communities.The IAF created the modern model of faith- and broad-based organizing and is widely recognized as having the strongest track record in the nation for citizen leadership development and for helping congregations and other civic organizations act on their missions to achieve lasting change in the world.The IAF, which includes the West / Southwest IAF and Metro IAF, currently works with thousands of religious congregations, non-profits, civic organizations and unions, in more than sixty-five cities across the United States and in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany.Civic OrganizationsFamiliesCommunities Human flourishing in communities where human development is often devalued and human dignity trampled_0fc51eec-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea00To equip families and communities to participate with power in the public decisions that impact their lives_0fc51fdc-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea00Human FlourishingThe measure of IAF's success is the extent to which its organizations contribute to human flourishing in communities where human development is often devalued and human dignity trampled.ImaginationThese successes, when they occur, take the form of imaginative responses to seemingly intractable problems, new relationships overcoming racial, religious and socio-economic divisions and immediate, concrete victories that change communities for the better and inspire hope in the future.RelationshipsLeadersDevelop and mentor leaders_0fc520b8-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea00IAF invests heavily in the identification, training and connecting of leaders whose capacities and skills may be further developed with careful mentoring and challenge.IdentificationIdentify leaders_0fc5218a-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea001TrainingTrain leaders_0fc52266-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea002ConnectionsConnect leaders_0fc52360-1013-11ec-acf2-60860883ea0032021-09-07https://www.industrialareasfoundation.org/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net