ABOUT ACTION

ACTION is a grassroots community organization which seeks to unite faith groups, schools, neighborhood organizations, tenant councils, and other non-profits to work for social justice.

Mission

Guided by our faith traditions, shared values, and multi-cultural collaboration, we strive to develop a community of diverse leaders committed to raising awareness and seeking solutions to overcome poverty, racism, and social injustice.
Our Work

Our programs teach that a healthy community can only be achieved if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. 

It is also key to ACTION’s efforts that protections of our most vulnerable members of our society, are met, by striving to minimize the division between rich and poor. Lastly ACTION’s efforts showcase the belief that we, as members of the same human family, have more in common than are our differences. It is our belief that we are charged to take care of one another.  This philosophy serves to unite likeminded people, and organizational entities.  

Specifically, ACTION is working with its partners to:

  • Build a multi-ethnic, multi-racial interfaith organization of congregations and organizations;
  • Promote and be guided by the common faith values, cultural and spiritual traditions of the members, under democratic principles;
  • Develop and train leadership for the purpose of enhancing congregational and organizational mission and addressing necessary systematic change in our communities;
  • Understand what is really ailing our communities, our society and the need for civic engagement.
  • Ground our work in a scriptural concept of power.
  • Build healthy, accountable working relationships–the first step in effective leadership and ministry.
  • Build teams and organizations that can be effective vehicles for social change.

Non-Profit, Membership-Based Organization

ACTION, Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization incorporated in the State of Ohio. It is a membership-based organization composed of 30 institutions. In 1999, a group of pastors and directors of local organizations approached the Gamaliel Foundation to seek direction and support to build a powerful grassroots community organization.