Within its 30-year history, the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) has
worked to advance the struggles of oppressed people for justice and self-determination, assisting
hundreds of community organizations, local churches, and public-policy groups with technical
expertise, grant making, organizer training, and creative use of its global grassroots connections.
Gail Walker tells the story of IFCO's testament to service, the first and only national ecumenical
foundation of its time controlled by people of color and exclusively committed to the support of
community organizing.
An eighth-grader from the Bruderhof community in Rifton, NY, helps prepare a bookmobile bus to cross the border into Canada. A US-Cuba Friendship Caravan organized by IFCO/Pastors for Peace shipped the bus and medical supplies to Cuba.
The photograph is courtesy of IFCO. All photographs are copyright © The General Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church and courtesy, New World Outlook magazine.
