Ella Baker Center Holds Vigil for “50% Jobs Not Jails” Campaign
The Ella Baker Center recently organized a candlelight vigil in front of the Alameda County Administration building in downtown Oakland where community members and faith leaders demanded more funding...
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Tech Experts Teach Faith Leaders to Launch Programs through the Cloud
OCCUR and The San Francisco Foundation FAITHS Program present: Cracking the Social Media Code: Success Strategies for Faiths and Nonprofits “Do you tweet or really understand the cloud?” quips Carmen...
View ArticleMayor Libby Schaaf Meets with Interfaith Leaders
In a recent meeting with interfaith leaders from around the Bay Area, Mayor Libby Schaaf expressed a need for more youth engagement programs in the city. She encouraged clergy to focus on helping...
View ArticleWorkshop on Proposal Writing for Faith and Nonprofit Leaders
OCCUR and The San Francisco Foundation FAITHS Program will host the second in a series of free workshops, the 2015 Model Built on Faith Capacity Building Series VIII. The workshop, Proposal Writing –...
View ArticleBay Area Faith Leaders Visit Vatican, Meet Pope’s Advisors About Racism in...
More than a dozen faith leaders and organizers with the PICO National Network from across the U.S. including Berkeley Pastor Michael McBride, are at the Vatican in Rome for a series of meetings this...
View ArticleGovernment Response to Church Burnings Must Have “Real Teeth,” Say Clergy
The discussion of entrenched racism in America is intensifying in the wake of the recent killing of nine parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a young white supremacist,...
View ArticleStatement by Faith Leaders in Ferguson, Mo
A group of national faith leaders in Ferguson for the one-year anniversary events of the murder of Mike Brown and Ferguson Uprising lament the continued assault on an already traumatized and hurting...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Passes Racial and Identity Profiling Act Over 800 rally at...
The California State Senate this week passed AB 953, the Racial and Identity Profiling Act, following a mass mobilization of California anti-mass incarceration and police accountability organizations...
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