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Organizational Supporters (117)
These organization have agreed to support Season of Prayer and Calls to Action. (in alphabetical order)
If you would like to enlist your organization, please click on Join UsAbundant Life Evangelistic Center, Mission: To reach out to the Mississippi Gulf Coast by raising up a Spirit-filled community church geared toward preaching, teaching, and preparing men and women for the work of the Lord in the twenty-first century.
Abundant Life Missionary Baptist Church. Gautier, MS
ACORN, the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now, The nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communitites.
Advancement Project, Advancement Project is a democracy and justice action group. We work with communities seeking to build a fair and just multi-racial democracy in America. Using law, public policy and strategic communications, Advancement Project acts in partnership with local communities to advance universal opportunity, equity and access for those left behind in America.
African American Forum on Race & Regionalism, AAFRR is working to strengthen the conversation among communities of color and other stakeholders about metropolitan regional sustainability, environmental justice, economic investments, strategic community development and equity.
Aimwell Baptist Church. Mobile, AL
Allen Temple Baptist Church, Oakland, CA. Rev. Dr. J. Alfred Smith, Sr.
Alliance for Jewish Renewal (ALEPH), A core institution in the Jewish renewal movement, dedicated to the Jewish people's sacred purpose of partnership with the Divine in the inseparable tasks of healing the world and healing our hearts.
BRIDGE (Baltimore Regional Initiative Developing Genuine Equality), BRIDGE is an interfaith organization comprised of institutions from throughout the Baltimore region working to “BRIDGE the Gap” between communities - bring people together across that which devastate us and putting an end to policies that concentrate poverty and devastate older suburban and city communities.
Brother's Keeper Ministries, We are the largest food pantry in rural south mississippi. We serve those in need with a hand up not a hand out.
Buddhist Peace Fellowship, founded in 1978, serve as a catalyst for socially engaged Buddhism. BPF's purpose is to help beings liberate themselves from the suffering that manifests in individuals, relationships, institutions, and social systems. Its programs, publications, and practice groups link Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change.
Building Better Communities, BBC is a Christian non-profit organization working within the metro- New Orleans area to offer assistance to Hurricane Katrina victims. We have provided things from furniture and appliances, to small amounts of rebuilding materials. Our main emphasis is on the mental and spiritual wellbeing of anyone who walks into our office. We are in the development of Community and Neighborhood Centers to serve the residents of New Orleans. “Rebuilding Hope One Person at a Time.”
California STD/HIV Prevention Center, Statewide support, including technical assistance and trainings for STD/HIV prevention efforts and programs. We are also looking for was to lessen the racial disparities in STD morbidity.
Call to Renewal, A national network of churches, faith-based organizations, and individuals working to overcome poverty in America.
Calvary Baptist Church. Cincinnati, OH.
Center for Social Inclusion, works to build a fair and just society by dismantling structural racism. CSI partners with communities of color and other allies to create strategies and build policy reform models to end racial disparity and promote equal opportunity.
Cerace for the Nations. Kalamazoo, MI.
Chaplaincy Institute of Arts and Interfaith Ministry, An interfaith seminary, trains ministers and chaplains to serve people of wide-ranging faith traditions, chosen spiritual paths, and cultural backgrounds in Berkeley, CA.
Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity, UC Berkeley, School of Law. A multidisciplinary, collaborative venture to produce research, research-based policy prescriptions, and curricular innovation on issues of racial and ethnic justice in California and the nation.
Christian Missionary Baptist. Moss Point, MS .
Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, works to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging the worlds of ideas and action, and by becoming a preeminent source of intellectual capital and a forum for building consensus within that movement.
Clergy Strategic Alliances, LLC., CSA strives to improve lives by providing social justice organizing tools to communities of faith. It works with pastors, church members, and grassroots organizations that have a calling to be prophetic in their words and practical in their work.
Congregational Action to Lift with Love (CALL), Erie, PA. Father Tex Hilbert, President.
Doris Street Church of God. Ocean Springs, MS.
Earth House Center, A strategic communications collaborative, dedicated to building healthy, just and sustainable communities through books, multimedia, training and facilitating.
EMFAM GROUP, Community Base support within New Orleans...Now displace in Texas... Arts & Performing Healing workshops Mission.(storyteller,poet, Folk Artist.
Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, (Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., Executive Director), a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth.
Equal Justice Society, A national organization of scholars, advocates and concerned individuals advancing innovative legal strategies and public policy for enduring social change.
Ethel Productions, Inc., Radio documentary production company
Faith Missionary Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS.
First Baptist Church of Biloxi
First Missionary Baptist of Bay St. Louis
First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport, LA, A congregation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Friendship Baptist Church. Ocean Springs, MS
Gamaliel Foundation, (Rev. Kevin Turman, Chair of Gamaliel Council of Presidents, Ann E. Smith, President), a network of grassroots, interfaith, interracial, multi-issue organizations working together to create a more just and more democratic society.
Good Hope Missionary Baptist. Gulfport, MS
Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church. Moss Point, MS
Graduate Theological Union, (James A. Donahue, President), a consortium of interdependent theological schools, affiliated centers, and program units joined in a venture of faith in God, one another, and the future.
Great Band Missionary Baptist Church. Gary, IN
Greater Grace. Biloxi, MS
Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church of Gulfport
Greater St. Mark. St. Louis, MO
Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc., We are an interfaith organziation committed to the holistic revitalization of Harlem. We are empowering Harlemites and rebuilding the community.
Hillside Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS
Home Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc., Nashville, TN.
Institute for Research on Poverty, A center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. As one of three Area Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.
Institute on Race & Poverty, A research center that investigates the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people of color and the disadvantaged.
Interdenominational Theological Center, (Rev. Michael A. Battle, President), a consortium of denominational seminaries whose mission is to educate Christian leaders for ministry and service in the Church and the global community.
J-Teen Leadership Circle, affiliated with UJA-Federation of New York. Teen led community service initiative. April 2006 community service trip to Louisiana followed by public speaking, articles about what still needs to be done.
Jesus People Against Pollution, (Charlotte Keys, Executive Director), a grassroots environmental justice organization located in Columbia, Mississippi. JPAP was created in response to an explosion at a local chemical plant that resulted in severe exposure of the community to toxic substances.
Jewish FundS for Justice, (Jeffrey Dekro, Senior Vice President). JFSJ is a public foundation created from the merger of two organizations, The Shefa Fund and Jewish Fund for Justice. JFSJ provides Jewish support to low-income communities through grants and loans, and engages Jews in social and economic justice activism.
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, (john a. powell, Executive Director), an interdisciplinary research institute that works to deepen our understanding of the causes of and solutions to racial and ethnic disparities and hierarchies.
Lighthouse Apostolic. Biloxi, MS
Little Rock MB Church. Moss Point, MS
Little Rock Missionary Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS
Lutheran Office of Governmental Ministry in New Jersey, Trenton, NJ. (Rev. Bruce H. Davidson, Director)
Lynnhaven Colony Congregational United Church of Christ, Christian church
MAC West. Lombard, IL
Market Place Ministries. Melrose Park, IL
Memorial Church of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes)
Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS
Milwaukee Black Liberation Theology Project, community organizing and educational resources to black churches in the Milwaukee area
Miracles of Hope/ Annabelle's Blessings , making this planet heaven on earth for children and their families.
Morning Star Baptist Church. Cincinnati, OH.
Most Holy Trinity, Catholic Church in Huntingdon, PA.
Mt. Zion Baptist, Joliet IL
NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP's mission is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC is a national non-profit environmental organization with over 1.2 million members and activists. NRDC has a 35-year record of successfully protecting the environment and human health from toxic pollution.
New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Biloxi, MS.
New Era Missionary Baptist Church. Gautier, MS
New Holy Temple Missionary Baptist. Melrose Park, IL
New Landmark Missionary Baptist Church. Chicago, IL
New Light Missionary Baptist Church. Ocean Springs, MS
New Providence Baptist Church. Pascagoula, MS.
Newlight Missionary Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS
Office of Black Catholic Ministries of the Archdiocese of Hartford, Hartford, CT.
OneWorld Progressive Institute, A community development organization. OneWorld's mission is to educate, inform and engage Connecticut residents on a range of issues critical to their lives as individuals and members of communities.
Opportunity Agenda, A communications, research, and advocacy organization dedicated to building the national will to expand opportunity in America. Their website is a resource for fact sheets, talking points, and effective communications strategies for advocates working on issues in the Gulf Coast.
Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA. (William McKinney, President), committed to serving God by equipping historic and emerging faith communities for ministries of compassion and justice in a changing world.
Parkview Baptist Church. Gautier, MS
PICO, People Improving Communities through Organizing, (John Baumann, S.J., Executive Director), one of the largest grassroots community efforts in the United States, brings people together to strengthen families and improve communities.
PolicyLink, (Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer), a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization working to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity.
Poverty & Race Research Action Council, A non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Our purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to address problems at the intersection of race and poverty.
Progressive MB Church of Gulfport
Rainbow Solutions, Helping people and organizations live and invest in socially and environmentally responsible ways.
Redefining Progress, Works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability.
Regional Council Of Churches Of Atlanta, Inc., The mission of The Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta is to develop relationships, foster dialogue, and advocate collaboration among all Christians throughout the 20 county Atlanta region.
Regional Plan Association, (Robert D. Yaro, President), an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization that improves the quality of life and the economic competitiveness of the 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region through research, planning, and advocacy.
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, The Religious Action Center is the Washington, D.C., office of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a joint instrumentality of the Union for Reform Judaism whose 900 congregations encompass 1.5 million Reform Jews, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose membership includes more than 1,800 rabbis.
Root Shock Institute, The Root Shock Institute's mission is to prevent upheaval where possible and mend the damage from upheaval when necessary. We work with communities around the world to learn their stories and pass along best practices advice.
Saint Elizabeth Manor, A 133 resident community of long- & short-term residents, 200 staff, and animals who seek to care for all as brothers & sisters on this earth.
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc., The mission of the SDPC is to strengthen the capacity and network of the African American faith community and its leaders to address the needs of those it serves in Chicago, IL.
SEAFLOW, San Rafael, CA (George Taylor, Executive Director), an educational nonprofit organization building an international movement dedicated to protecting whales, dolphins and all marine life from active sonars and other lethal ocean noise pollution.
Second Baptist Church of Detroit
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS.
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. Moss Point, MS , Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church is located in Moss Point, MS, one of the areas affected by Katrina. Citizens come to the church daily looking for cleaning supplies, toiletries, yard tools, food, diapers,adult diapers, and other essentials.
Sierra Club Louisiana Environmental Justice Project, Sierra Club one of nation's old environmental organizations.
Smart Growth America, (Don Chen, Executive Director), a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home.
Sojourners, A Christian ministry whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice.
St Paul Evangelical Lutheran, Sharon Center, OH
St. James Baptist Church. Gulfport, MS
St. John Baptist Church. Biloxi, MS
St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Maple Grove, MN.
St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist of Mobile, AL
St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Small progressive congregation in the PCUSA.
St. Matthew. East St. Louis, IL
The First Congregational Church of Oakland, CA., (Rev. Ama Zenya, Senior Pastor)
The Greater Antioch Missionary Church. Pascagoula, MS
The Riverside Church of NY, An interdenominational, interracial, & international congregation of 2,400 families in the United Church of Christ and American Baptist Churches tradition.
TIKKUN Community, An international community of people of many faiths calling for social justice and political freedom in the context of new structures of work, caring communities, and democratic social and economic arrangements.
Triumph Church. Biloxi, MS
Triumph the Church and Kingdom of God in Christ. Moss Point, MS
True Deliverance Outreach Ministries Inc., We are a purpose driven ministry called to bring deliverance to the total man by preaching and teaching the word of God and demostrating his love with acts of kindness.
Union Baptist Church. Pascagoula, MS
Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, Hurricane Relief & Social Justice Project was created to help bring Unitarian volunteers into the Gulf region and to work for social justice among those affected by the hurricanes.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, Formed in 1961 through the consolidation of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, the UUA is a faith community of more than 1000 congregations that support each other and bring to the world a vision of religious freedom, tolerance and social justice.
Zacchaeus House Church, We are modeled after the first church in Acts: sharing what we have, breaking down walls that divide people, being people of prayer and worship, and joining together as people hungry, poor, homeless, or oppressed and seeking justice and God's beloved community together.