Send page to a Friend Faith-Based Community Organizing Faith-Based Community Organizing is a model of social change where members of faith institutions build the leadership and power to effect change on concerns that are broadly and deeply felt. The foundation of faith-based community organizing lies in building relationships among congregants to allow people to identify their common values, concerns, and passions. These relationships are built through one-on-one intentional conversations between pairs of people as well as house meetings with larger groups. Faith-based community organizing focuses on developing leaders and supporting them in gaining the skills necessary to engage members of their congregations and ultimately in building the power to make change, both in their synagogues and in the larger community. JCRC employs the model of faith-based community organizing within the Synagogue Social Justice team.  JCRC belongs to the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and actively participates in the newly formed Metropolitan Interfaith Congregations Acting for Hope (MICAH), two local faith-based organizations in Greater Boston and MetroWest respectively.  In addition, JCRC works to strengthen the Jewish community's involvement in faith-based community organizing.