Sorry for the delay. I've been spending the last several days preparing for my return back to the States as I wrap up my Peace Corps service. Today, we continue our exploration into the world of community organizing groups with a look at one of the oldest and most storied groups around: the Industrial Areas Foundation. You can look them up at www.industrialareasfoundation.org.
Based in Chicago and founded by the legendary Saul Alinsky, the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) organizes neighborhoods using broad based organizing techniques in order to empower and improve the lives of everyday people. They have over 54 affiliates throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, and England.
The IAF has been around since 1940 and has won major victories to insure affordable housing, jobs, living wage, civil rights, environmental protection, business accountability, education reforms, etc. The IAF is very much the foundation of just about every other organizing organization in the country since many of them use some variation of Saul Alinsky's principles.
If you are interested in getting to the roots of traditional community organizing, the IAF is the first place you should look into. You can contact them at iaf@iafil.org
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