January 9, 2013 | Queens Tribune
Queens Congregations United for Action (QCUA)
The Queens community rallied in New York City to demand electricity be restored for the thousands of Rockaways residents still without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
October 11, 2012 | Washington Post
San Francisco Organizing Project (SFOP)
In spiritual communities across the country — from Jewish worship groups such as Washington’s DC Minyan and Los Angeles’s IKAR to churches too numerous to count — young people come together each week to collectively “power down” from the busy world.
July 17, 2012 | Orange County Register
Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO)
A Santa Ana City Council ad hoc committee will look at the possibility of an oversight committee that could look at a variety of ethics-related issues.
February 6, 2012 | The Uptake
ISAIAH - Minneapolis, St. Cloud, St. Paul
June 15, 2011 | Mercury News
Oakland Community Organizations (OCO), PICO California
The visitors from California chapters of People Improving Communities through Organizing planned to visit individual lawmakers after their rally on the Capitol steps. They want California's remaining $9.6 billion budget shortfall closed with an extension of expiring tax increases, not more spending cuts.
June 14, 2011 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC)
Since Monday, about 900 high school students from Inland Congregations United for Change have traveled from 68 cities to Sacramento for a day of action.
June 14, 2011 | Sacramento Bee
Speakers at the rally, held on the Capitol's south steps and organized by a coalition of faith-based and community groups called PICO California, urged lawmakers to support Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal that the Legislature approve extending higher tax rates temporarily and set an election to ask the voters to decide at a later date whether to approve them for a longer period of time.
May 20, 2011 | Merced Sun-Star
Congregations Building Community (CBC), Faith in Action Kern County, Faith in Community, People Acting in Community Together (PACT San Jose), PICO California
The Merced Organizing Project, PICO California, People and Congregations Together of San Joaquin County, Congregations Building Communities (Modesto), Faith in Community (Fresno) and Faith in Action (Kern County) said they're arranging meetings in several Valley cities to talk about the local impact of state budget cuts.
May 12, 2011 | The Press-Enterprise
Inland Congregations United for Change (ICUC), PICO National Network
Two years ago, Riverside resident Esther Ruvalcaba attended her first meeting of Inland Congregations United for Change. Almost immediately, she became a leader in the faith-based community-organizing group, and now she sits on its board of directors.
April 29, 2011 | USA Today : Faith & Reason
Birmingham Faith In Action, PICO National Network
One faith-based group, the PICO Network (People Improving Communities through Organizing) turned to Psalm 46:1-5 to give words to a longing for the Lord in the rubble.
January 25, 2011 | MercuryNews.com
Oakland Community Organizations (OCO)
Youth leaders with Oakland Community Organizations had pushed for the change in policy for a few years, said community organizer Emma Paulino.
January 14, 2011 | CBN.com
PICO National Network
In the wake of the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith leaders are weighing in. They are urging a time of reflection and "soul searching" when it comes to political dialogue.
January 13, 2011 | Faith in Public Life
As Americans continue to cope and debate in the aftermath of last weekend's tragic shooting in Arizona, faith leaders are reaching out not only to the people of Tucson, but also to Members of Congress.
January 12, 2011 | Christianity Today
As the project [Civility Project] ends, leaders of a faith-based network called People Improving Communities through Organizing (PICO) have asked people to sign a "pledge for our better selves," in the wake of the Arizona killings.
January 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
L.A. Voice
LA Voice organizer, Naim Shah Jr. Shah is one of four trainees in Southern California and 16 nationwide who are completing a six-month Community Organizing Residency (COR), a program launched a year ago by Jewish Funds for Justice, a national nonprofit organization.
November 11, 2010 | Berkeley Voice
Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action (BOCA)
Those who are caught driving without a license still will get a ticket and have their car towed. They will not, however, lose their transportation for a month and have to pay a tow yard upward of $2,500 for storage fees. That's a big plus for people who need to drive to work or get their kids to school, including those living here illegally, said a member of the Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action, a group which was one of the driving forces behind getting the policy changed.
August 4, 2010 | Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Congregations United (BCU), Congregations Rebuilding Community in Rwanda, Queens Congregations United for Action (QCUA)
Rwandan religious leader John Rutsindintwarane, recently addressed a group of leaders from Brooklyn Congregations United and Queens Congregations United for Action on his work with the organization Congregations Rebuilding Community in Rwanda (CRCR)
July 21, 2010 | San Bernardino Sun
On behalf of the Inland Congregations United for Change committee that planned last month's (June 6) "Justice for Immigrants Takes Faith in Action," I would like to take a moment and the opportunity to thank the officials who attended
June 22, 2010 | New Bedford Standard Times
United Interfaith Action of Southeastern Massachusetts (UIA)
The United Interfaith Action says there are about 15,000 city residents whose primary language is Spanish. They note that the department employs just nine officers, out of a force of 260, who speak fluent Spanish. Police Chief Ronald Teachman says the department has about 20 police officers who are either fluent or conversational in Spanish.
March 8, 2010 | La Prensa
A la actividad asistir\xc3\xa1n autoridades de seguridad como el ministro de Seguridad y Justicia, Manuel Melgar y el procurador para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, Oscar Luna.
