... founded by Saul Alinsky in an effort to organize Chicago's marginalized poor. Today there is a national network of IAF organizations in forty communities across the country. IAF organizers work within faith-based organizations, mostly Christian churches, to identify and assemble experienced leaders into nonsectarian coalitions devoted to community development. The IAF assembly as such is independent and not connected to any ... ...

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