# Promising Practices
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[### Align Minneapolis (Downtown Congregations to End Homelessness)
](/align-minneapolis-downtown-congregations-to-end-homelessness) Website: Align Minneapolis is an interfaith collaboration of 17 Minneapolis churches, synagogues, and mosques and people with lived experiences working together to address homelessness and poverty. At first glance, the work of...
[### Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse (ACTS)
](/alliance-of-communities-transforming-syracuse-acts) Facebook: The Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse (ACTS) is a grassroots, interfaith network advocating for social justice. We are voices striving for a more just and fair community that improves the...
[### Arizona Interfaith Movement
](/arizona-interfaith-movement) Website: The Arizona Interfaith Movement’s mission is to build bridges of understanding, respect, and support among diverse people of faith through education, dialogue, service, and the implementation of the Golden Rule...
[### Building Bridges
](/building-bridges) Website: [https://www.facebook.com/Building-Bridges-Arts-Collaborative-1728072294…](https://www.facebook.com/Building-Bridges-Arts-Collaborative-172807229404727/) Serving our community through public art. Artist Katherine Chilcote’s contributions to interfaith relations in Cleveland began while she was halfway across the country...
[### CONNECT Faith
](/connect-faith) Website: CONNECT Faith is committed to working in collaboration with New York City’s diverse faith communities to create and strengthen their response to gender and family violence. CONNECT is a New York City...
[### Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries
](/cooperative-metropolitan-ministries-0) Website: To mobilize congregations and communities across economic, religious, racial, and ethnic boundaries so that, in partnership, we can work more effectively for a just and peaceful society and for spiritual growth and interfaith...
[### Dinner Dialogues: Breaking Bread and Making Neighbors in Houston and Beyond
](/dinner-dialogues-breaking-bread-and-making-neighbors-in-houston-and-beyond) Website: Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IMGH) brings people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration, and service, as a demonstration of our shared beliefs. Demographic shifts over the past two...
[### Faith and Culture Center
](/faith-and-culture-center) Website: There is nothing more familiar and human than breaking bread around a table with friends and neighbors. But when a global pandemic enters the scene, this familiar picture is interrupted, leaving individuals to...
[### Faith Forward Dallas
](/faith-forward-dallas) Website: The mission of Faith Forward Dallas is to foster and sustain the multi-faith fabric of the community by celebrating diversity and building strong relationships. Made up of a diverse coalition of Dallas' faith leaders who...
[### Faith in Texas
](/faith-texas-0) Website: “Faith in Texas is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith grassroots movement of people united in values working together to achieve economic, racial, and social justice for all people." At the height of the...
[### Family Promise of Las Vegas
](/family-promise-of-las-vegas) Website: Helping homeless families with children in Clark County achieve sustainable housing and independence through a compassionate community-based response. Family Promise of Las Vegas is a place where volunteers from all...
[### Festival of Faiths
](/festival-of-faiths) Website: The mission of the Festival of Faiths is to promote interfaith understanding, cooperation, and action through exploring how different faith traditions address a common issue, topic, or theme. In 1996, a world...
[### Flushing Interfaith Council
](/flushing-interfaith-council) Website: The Flushing Interfaith Council works to build a community that fulfills and surpasses the dream of toleration voiced by the Flushing Remonstrance more than 350 years ago. Over 350 years ago, the...
[### Global Spiritual Life at NYU / Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership
](/global-spiritual-life-at-nyu-of-many-institute-for-multifaith-leadership) Website: [https://www.nyu.edu/students/communities-and-groups/student-diversity/s…](https://www.nyu.edu/students/communities-and-groups/student-diversity/spiritual-life/of-many-institute-for-multifaith-leadership.html) The Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership is a pioneering initiative devoted to educating and inspiring...
[### “The Hindu and the Cowboy… and Other Kansas City Stories”
](/%E2%80%9Cthe-hindu-and-the-cowboy%E2%80%A6-and-other-kansas-city-stories%E2%80%9D) Website: The Hindu and the Cowboy and Other Kansas City Stories is based on interviews with Kansas City residents of many diverse traditions, the result of the Mosaic Life Stories Project, a process undertaken...
[### Illinois Wesleyan University Office of Multifaith Engagement
](/illinois-wesleyan-university-office-of-multifaith-engagement) Website: We seek to provide a venue for asking meaningful questions - including questions about who we are and what we are for. Whatever beliefs and practices you bring, we are here to support you on your journey. Tucked...
[### Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul
](/interfaith-action-greater-saint-paul) Website: interfaithaction.org/ Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul harnesses the power of volunteers from diverse faith and spiritual communities to support families and individuals who are striving to achieve stability and economic mobility. In the...
[### Interfaith Airport Chaplaincy, Inc.
](/interfaith-airport-chaplaincy-inc) Website: Our interfaith chaplains and volunteer associates offer a ministry of compassion and physical assistance to more than 60,000 airport employees and more than 200,000 passengers each and every day of the year. Rev. Dr...
[### Interfaith Community Initiatives
](/interfaith-community-initiatives) Website: Building stronger, more diverse and peaceful communities throughout the Metro Atlanta area and beyond! The late Reverend Dr. Ben Campbell Johnson was not a lone voice in the interfaith movement when he urged people to...
[### The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee
](/the-interfaith-conference-of-greater-milwaukee) Website: The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee is a 49-year-old nonprofit organization through which the regional leaders and adherents of 20 member faiths and denominations: dialogue to build personal...
[### Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington
](/interfaith-council-metropolitan-washington-0) Website: IFC provides a platform for faith communities to unite as one voice for the respect and dignity of all. Today, calls for greater cooperation and dialogue in our nation’s capital are more urgent than ever. While such calls are...
[### Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada
](/interfaith-council-of-southern-nevada) Website: The Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada promotes activities that encourage understanding and respect among all people, all traditions, all cultures, all philosophies, and all communities. By creating positive...
[### Interfaith Families Project of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area
](/interfaith-families-project-of-the-greater-washington-dc-area) Website: IFFP seeks to develop our children, ourselves, and our community through opportunities for education about Christianity and Judaism, holiday celebrations, fellowship, spiritual gatherings, community service, and exploration of...
[### Interfaith Trialogues
](/interfaith-trialogues) Website: An annual Interfaith Trialogue event, co-hosted by the Islamic Center of Virginia and numerous churches in the Bon Air/Southside area of Richmond. Over a hundred people (mostly adults, but also some teens...
[### Interfaith Walk for Peace and Reconciliation
](/interfaith-walk-for-peace-and-reconciliation) Website: To facilitate peace, justice and reconciliation by engaging faith groups and other communities in dialogue, reflection, action and an annual Interfaith Peace Walk. William Penn, a Quaker and founder of...
[### Interfaith Youth Connection (Formerly Interfaith Youth Leadership Coalition)
](/interfaith-youth-leadership-coalition) Website: , The Twin Cities Interfaith Youth Leadership Coalition, a collaboration of the Saint Paul Area Council of Churches, the Jewish Community...
[### Islamic Resource Group
](/islamic-resource-group) Website: Islamic Resource Group's mission is to build bridges of understanding between Muslim Americans and the broader community through education. “I grew up in a very multicultural environment in India—as a Muslim, I went to a...
[### Loyola University Chicago's Faith Programs
](/loyola-university-chicago%27s-faith-programs) Website: Loyola University Chicago invites students to discover faith and meaning through their experiences. Campus Ministry offers many faith programs for students to connect, engage and grow through...
[### MCCJ
](/mccj) Website: MCCJ’s mission is to advance understanding and respect among all cultures, religions and races. MCCJ seeks an inclusive community in which all people are treated with dignity and respect. Rooted in interfaith good will, our...
[### Minnesota Multi-faith Network
](/minnesota-multi-faith-network) Website: The mission of the Minnesota Multi-faith Network is to be the statewide network supporting faith and interfaith leaders and organizations who work for a more just and loving world. MMN believes that a network...
[### Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees
](/multifaith-alliance-for-syrian-refugees) Website: MFA enlists the moral authority and the mobilizing power of religion and civil society to address the ongoing suffering of people affected by the Syrian crisis. We address the three great fears that interfere...
[### NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change
](/newground-a-muslim-jewish-partnership-for-change) Website: NewGround is a community-building organization that creates, connects and empowers Jewish and Muslim change-makers in America. Through a professional fellowship, high school leadership council and public programming...
[### OneJax
](/onejax) Website: OneJax is an interfaith organization dedicated to achieving civility, understanding and respect for all through education, dialogue and community-building. For more than forty years, OneJax – in its varied forms – has...
[### The Peace Rides
](/the-peace-rides) Website: [https://www.facebook.com/United-In-PeaceUp-Fest-Peace-Rides-10317996268…](https://www.facebook.com/United-In-PeaceUp-Fest-Peace-Rides-1031799626873570/) UNITED IN PEACE and the Up Fest Peace Rides is a growing multi-ethnic, multi-faith popular movement that is successfully uniting the diverse peoples of Los Angeles...
[### San Diego Regional Interfaith Collaborative (SDRIC)
](/san-diego-regional-interfaith-collaborative-sdric) Website: The San Diego Regional Interfaith Collaborative (SDRIC) seeks to nurture and enhance the infrastructure of relationships, resources, mutual spiritual understanding, out-flowing compassion, and...
[### Secular Bible Study / Circle of Reason
](/secular-bible-study-circle-of-reason) Website: No culture in history has used public, communal commitment to reason as a way to improve the world as well as our individual lives. We believe this approach to solving irrationality by the human race can lead to a...
[### Serve2Unite
](/serve2unite) Website: The Serve 2 Unite program makes the practice of peace an attractive and valuable way of life, transforming schools and communities via fearless creativity and compassion, in interdependent partnership with...
[### Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom
](/sisterhood-salaam-shalom-0) Website: The mission of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom is to build trust, respect, and relationships between Muslim and Jewish women and teenage girls. Together we commit to stand up for one another, educate one another about our...
[### Utah Interfaith Power and Light
](/utah-interfaith-power-and-light) Website: Utah Interfaith Power & Light inspires, educates, and collaborates with faith communities to promote earth stewardship, clean energy, and climate justice. When the Olympic Games...
[### Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
](/virginia-interfaith-center-for-public-policy) Website: Engaging people of faith and goodwill to advocate for economic, racial, social and environmental justice in Virginia’s policies and practices through education, prayer and action. Since 1982, the Virginia...
[### VOICE - Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement
](/voice-virginians-organized-interfaith-community-engagement) Website: VOICE is committed to bringing people together across religious, racial, ethnic, economic and political party affiliations to build a stronger Northern Virginia. Northern Virginia is among the most religiously diverse...
[### Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group (WWIAG)
](/weston-wayland-interfaith-action-group-wwiag) Website: The mission of the Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group (WWIAG) is to build community by developing a better understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of our individual, cultural, and religious differences through...
[### Women Transcending Boundaries
](/women-transcending-boundaries) Website: Women Transcending Boundaries (WTB) is an egalitarian community of women from many faith and cultural traditions. Through programs, events, and social interactions, we seek to nurture mutual respect and understanding by sharing...
[### Youth LEAD
](/youth-lead) Website: [https://www.emerson.edu/social-justice-center/elma-lewis-center/program…](https://www.emerson.edu/social-justice-center/elma-lewis-center/programs-projects/youth-lead) Youth LEAD inspires and mobilizes youth leaders to reflect upon their values and beliefs, connect with others across differences and act together to...