March 25, 2013
Developed by IKAR in Los Angeles, this Haggadah insert introduces the Campaign for Citizenship and how the themes of Passover relate to our work for immigration reform.
March 10, 2013
More than 4,000 religious leaders from across the nation have joined the clergy of Newtown, Conn., in asking the U.S. Senate to pass meaningful gun violence prevention legislation.
January 3, 2013
Religious congregations across the country are leading "Gun Violence Prevention Sabbaths" during the month of March to raise awareness of the crisis of gun violence in our society. Will you add your congregation to the list?
December 12, 2012
This downloadable guide is designed to help faith leaders talk with their congregations about the practical and moral consequences of the tax and spending decisions before Congress, including proposals that would make deep cuts to the safety net.
October 29, 2012
August 21, 2012
Faith reflections, worship materials, and information on voter suppression for clergy and faith leaders.
November 18, 2011
Keynote presentations and workshops from PICO's first national event for faith leaders. Includes presentations on the economy, racism, immigration, and the prophetic role of clergy. November 2011.
September 14, 2010
Additional resources for the "Bring Health Reform Home" campaign.
September 9, 2010
A new PICO campaign to Bring Health Reform Home to our families and communities. PICO created easy-to-use education materials that describe the health care changes that will occur over the next four years.
July 8, 2010
Watch our 14-minute video about PICO's faith-based community organizing model.
Watch this short video to learn how PICO is continuing the work of faith-based organizing born in the Civil Rights Movement.
February 15, 2009
This presentation looks at the impact of the economic crisis on jobs, housing and health care, and provides a framework for helping communities and the nation rebuild the economy.
February 10, 2009
There are different methods of organizing or ways of making social change, and all have their uses. This one-pager lays out the differences between direct service, education, self-help, advocacy, and organizing.
These 3 slides give an overview of PICO's faith-based community organizing model.
El modelo de organizacion comunal de PICO en espanol.
An overview of the PICO organizing process, in training format.
El modelo de un entrenamiento del proceso organizador de PICO.
A training to help develop leaders' understanding of power and the dynamics of the power arena.
A one-pager outlining the key qualities of a good leader. Good leaders are not born as leaders: they are developed.
Training on Lessons for Organizing and Leadership from the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the actions of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, Jo Ann Robinson and others.
February 8, 2009
He set out to build a wall, but left an enduring legacy of leadership.
February 7, 2009
Community organizing has had a long association with congregational life and the faith element it represents.
June 1, 2005
Meir Laken from the Greater Boston Synagogue Organizing Project presents on what it would look like to build a synagogue community based on organizing principles.
May 1, 2003
It is said that no man is an island. No man alone can conquer a nation, nor can he subdue all his foes alone, no matter how powerful he or she may be. We can however, move many mountains and close valleys of inequality together, through a collective organizing process.
September 11, 2002
Veteran PICO clergy Kendall Baker examines how the larger community could be shaped by faith-based organizing.
September 12, 2001
In this paper, veteran organizer and teacher Dr. Jose Carrasco provides an understanding of the Congregation-Community Based Model of organizing and concludes that the model gives people a means to empower their children, their neighborhoods, their society, and themselves.
February 2, 2000
The breakdown of the family in our society and the effect of this fundamental rending of our social fabric have been widely documented, and the member congregations and their neighbors who make up the PICO Network feel we have a critical contribution to make toward reversing these trends.
October 1, 1998
This story of the commissioning of the seventy is one of three texts identified by many Jesus scholars as the single most authentic source for presenting a picture of the historical Jesus. Although every verse in the New Testament is subjectively filtered through the eyes of resurrection faith, confessing Jesus as the Christ, there are occasional snapshots offered that reveal an objective picture of what actually must have taken place. This story is one such literary photo.
February 2, 1998
The language and ideas inherent in our faith traditions, particularly those of the prophetic tradition provide us with resources for cracking through the predominant political ideologies of the United States to imagine a new day.
