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Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization records

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  1. Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization records, 1966-1984.
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  1. Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (U.S.)

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Additional authors
  1. Walker, Lucius, 1930-
  2. Douglas, Ann.
  3. Clement, Marilyn.
Description
  1. 41 linear feet
Summary
  1. The records of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), 1966-1984, document the origin and development of the organization within the context of the social and religious turmoil of the late 1960s, a period which gave rise to Third World theological perspectives, and the radical critique of racism and materialism in American society. IFCO records consist of files for the various programs and projects IFCO developed to assist poor and disadvantaged peoples gain justice, self-determination and economic independence, primarily in the United States, and to a lesser extent, Africa. Included are hundreds of proposals submitted by community, educational, health care and other organizations to IFCO's Grant Making Program, which provide documentation of community empowerment organizations in the United States from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Schomburg NEH Archival Resources for the Study of the Post-Civil Rights Movements Project.
Subject
  1. Community organization > United States
  2. Church work with Indians
  3. Church work with minorities
  4. Mexican Americans > Civil rights
  5. African Americans > Civil rights
  6. Amilcar Cabral Training Institute
  7. Westside Mothers (Organization : Detroit, Mich.)
  8. Indians of North America > Civil rights
  9. National Black United Fund, Inc
  10. Relief for Africans in Need in the Sahel (New York, N.Y.)
  11. Minorities > Civil rights
  12. American Indian Movement
  13. National Welfare Rights Organization (U.S.)
  14. Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade
  15. National Black Economic Development Conference
  16. National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
  17. Church work with African Americans
  18. Church work with Mexican Americans
  19. Michigan Ohio Community Organization Council
  20. Church and social problems > United States
  21. Alaska Federation of Natives
  22. Forman, James D > Black Manifesto
  23. Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (U.S.)
  24. Federations, Financial (Social service)
  25. Black Economic Research Center
  26. Community Organization Training Institute
  27. Church work with migrant labor
Call number
  1. Sc MG 227
Source (note)
  1. Lucious Walker
Biography (note)
  1. The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) is an interdenominational "parachurch" agency, created in late 1966 to open lines of comunication between mainstream American churches and disenfranchised minority communities in the United States. Founded by nine religious groups and one foundation, IFCO initially included only one representative from a minority community on its board. By the mid 1970s, IFCO had developed into the largest minority-controlled foundation in the country.
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Author
  1. Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (U.S.)
Title
  1. Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization records, 1966-1984.
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Biography
  1. The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) is an interdenominational "parachurch" agency, created in late 1966 to open lines of comunication between mainstream American churches and disenfranchised minority communities in the United States. Founded by nine religious groups and one foundation, IFCO initially included only one representative from a minority community on its board. By the mid 1970s, IFCO had developed into the largest minority-controlled foundation in the country.
  2. Established by the Board of National Missions of the United Presbyterian Church as an autonomous agency, IFCO was charged with finding solutions to the problems that cause poverty through community and economic development, training in community organizing and cooperative programs in areas where disadvantaged minorities lived. Funding of projects affecting the black community became the foundation's top priority, followed by assistance to Native American and Mexican American communities.
  3. From the beginning IFCO was embroiled in controversy over its funding of community groups involved in militant and protest activities. The most well-known controversy was over IFCO's sponsorship of the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC) in Detroit in April 1969. It was at this conference that James Forman, head of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), first proclaimed the "Black Manifesto," demanding $500 million in reparations from America's white churches and synagogues to be used to address problems in the inner cities. Other controversial groups IFCO supported included the American Indian Movement; the Committee for a Unified Newark and JIHAD Productions in Newark, New Jersey (founded by poet and radical activist Amiri Baraka); Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers Union; the Woodlawn Organization, Chicago, Illinois; films in support of the revolutions in Angola and Mozambique; the militant National Welfare Rights Organization; and the United Command of Zimbabwe African Peoples Union.
  4. IFCO established several organizations and training institutes, at both the regional and national level in this country and in Africa. Regionally, IFCO spearheaded efforts to develop a coalition of churches, other religious bodies, and community organizations in Ohio and Michigan, called the Michigan-Ohio Community Organization Council. IFCO was also instrumental in the formation of the Black United Fund.
  5. IFCO's international program included the Community Organizers Training Institute (COTI), renamed the Amilcar Cabral Institute in 1973, which was the major educational component of the international program. The Cabral Institute consisted of five programs designed to train minority individuals for leadership and staff positions in community organizations, train seminarians in community organizing, and establish Black United Funds. IFCO also developed the Relief for Africans in Need in the Sahel (RAINS), a coalition of concerned black individuals and organizations that attempted to secure immediate relief for the drought-striken countries of the African Sahel.
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  1. Walker, Lucius, 1930-
  2. Douglas, Ann.
  3. Clement, Marilyn.
Research call number
  1. Sc MG 227
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