July 08, 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.
April 29, 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.
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.
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.
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.
February 08, 2009
He set out to build a wall, but left an enduring legacy of leadership.
February 07, 2009
Community organizing has had a long association with congregational life and the faith element it represents.
March 24, 2008
Oakland Community Organizations has engaged in parent organizing for education reform for over ten years. This article from the journal New Directions for Youth Development, by OCO director Ron Snyder, details OCO’s strategies, challenges, and accomplishments.
February 08, 2007
Resources on faith-based community organizing in the Reconstructionist Jewish context.
January 01, 2007
This chapter from Rich Wood's "Community Organizing and Political Change in the City" looks at PICO's organizing effort to influence policy-making on health care, public safety, education, immigrant rights, and housing at the state and national levels.
December 01, 2006
This article reviews thinking and experimentation by staff and leaders within the PICO network designed to increase the social impact of community organizing while keeping this grassroots movement firmly rooted in the values and control of local communities.
February 01, 2006
In this chapter from his book "Building a People of Power: Equipping Churches to Transform Their Communities," author and minister Dr. Robert Linthicum teaches how to build relational power by taking the time to sit down, talk and build a trust relationship.
June 01, 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.
November 03, 2003
This booklet is a summary of the longer Interfaith Funders report "Renewing Congregations: The Contribution of Faith-Based Community Organizing," examining how congregations are strengthened and transformed by community organizing.
September 22, 2003
This study examined faith-based groups around the country to find out how congregations are strengthened and transformed by community organizing.
This excerpt from "Renewing Congregations" by Interfaith Funders and Richard Wood looks at the impact of being involved in PICO faith-based organizing on Faith Chapel COGIC in San Diego, CA.
May 01, 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 15, 2002
Sociology professor Richard Wood spent several years working with PICO and another group. His book shows how community activism and religious organizations can help build a more just and democratic future for all Americans.
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 02, 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 01, 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 02, 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.
November 04, 1997
Veteran PICO organizer Jim Keddy looks at the organizing principle at the center of the PICO model - "Power rests in the relationship." Because the word "relationship" is used by many professions, Keddy reflects upon the distinctive relational pattern suggested by the PICO model of organizing.
January 01, 1995
In this article from the Journal of Community Psychology, Dr. Paul Speer and Dr. Joseph Hughey compare the differences in the ability to develop power between neighborhood-based community organizing and congregation-based community organizing.
