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BOOKS and booklets

That will up your Game...

... AND your purchases will support expanded Democratic Faith communications and IAF organizer recruitment and training.
Frank C. Pierson, Jr. (Democratic Faith) and Gregory F. Augustine Pierce (ACTA Publications),  are teaming up to encourage Industrial Areas Foundation network (IAF) writing and communications.  We share a conviction that writing, publishing and broadly communicating stories by and about IAF leaders, organizers and allies is of vital importance right now.  To that end we call your attention to a series of  community organizing booklets published by ACTA that are premier learning resources for anyone interested in building and/or supporting citizen organizing. 
Pierce and Pierson have decades of experience as professional IAF organizers dating back to the early 1970’s. We have renewed our relationship based on a shared commitment to add value to IAF organizing.​
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When you purchase books on the ACTA website and use coupon code DEMFAITH at final checkout, you will receive a 10% discount on your order, and ACTA Publications will donate 20% of your order total to Dem Faith and the IAF.
FEATURED BOOK:
Going Public
Michael Gecan
$14.95 - Order HERE.
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(See also our page devoted to Mike Gecan.)
For more than twenty-five years, Michael Gecan has been a professional organizer with Industrial Areas Foundation. ​Having grown up witnessing at close range the destructive effects of political patronage on powerless, disenfranchised Chicago communities, Gecan knows from experience that strong relationships in the public sphere and sustained and disciplined organizing can spark the public and private alchemy necessary to achieve sidewalks, parks, schools, housing--and the collective renewal that results. 


​How to Raise Money for Community Organizing
By Robert Connolly
Bob Connolly—community leader, trainer, and organizer whose company has helped religious and community organizations raise over a billion dollars during the past thirty-plus years. In this invaluable and timely booklet, Connolly gives specific, practical, tried-and-true advice—laced with examples, humor, and stories—on how community organizations can raise on an ongoing basis the money they need to succeed. $7.95 - ORDER HERE.
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MORE FROM Community Organizing Series
​(Remember to use coupon DEMFAITh at final checkout)

Reflecting with Scripture on Community Organizing
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Rev. Jeff Krehbiel
$5.95 - Order HERE.
​Rev. Krehbiel, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims in Washington, D.C. and co-chair of the Washington Interfaith Network, offers reflections on four passages from the Christian Scriptures and how they relate to the experience of community organizing. 
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Effective Organizing for Congregational Renewal
Michael Gecan
$5.95 - Order HERE.
In this  booklet, Gecan ( Going Public) gives a quick analysis of the tools of organizing that can be taught and mastered by the clergy and lay leaders of religious congregations of all faiths and denominations
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Using the Tools of Effective Organizing to Build Your Local Union's Strengths in the Post-Janus Era
Jonathan Lange, Amy Vruno, Ben Gordon​
$6.95 - Order HERE.
Three organizers with 75 years of union and community organizing experience among them offer five simple but profound tools that unions can use to “dis-organize and re-organize” themselves in the post-Janus era.
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Mixing It Up in the Public Arena
A. Zeik Saidman
$5.95 - Order HERE.
​This is a book for anyone working in the public arena and for young people who might be considering to do so. Saidman also relates to his own Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) to the social justice beliefs of those of other faiths.
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Going to the Well to Build Community
Deacon Timothy E. Tilghman
$5.95 - Order HERE.
​Through conversations with clergy in traditional African-American parishes, Deacon Tilghman has developed an approach to evangelization based on the principles of community organization. 
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Freedom From and Freedom For
Michael Gecan 
$5.95 - Order HERE.
According to Mike Gecan, there are two basic freedoms that need to be fought for and preserved if democracy is to continue to function: freedom from and freedom for. But in order to do so, we must learn how to organize.
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The Power of Relational Action
Edward T. Chambers
$5.95 - Order HERE.
Not so much a "how-to" as a "why-to," with examples from Chambers' own experience, The Power of Relational Action is aimed at those who are searching for a new way of standing for the whole across the diversity that divides us.
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see full organizing Series HERE;

more ACTA organizing resources HERE.

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