| Our Role | Congregation-Based Organizing | Rural Grassroots Organizing | Workforce Constituency Development  One of RCI’s goals is to help the faith community address local concerns by developing leadership teams that build and strengthen relationships between their congregations and the surrounding communities. Through these relationships, leaders identify and solve local problems. In order to foster such efforts, RCI helped organize Faith In Community, a federation of 17 congregations and community-based groups that are working to improve conditions in the greater Fresno area. Faith In Community has achieved much in the past twelve months, including:
- Partnered with local residents and the Fresno Police Department to improve safety conditions in El Dorado Park and surrounding neighborhoods;
- Organized after-school tutoring programs for elementary school students;
- Held educational events aimed at informing residents about existing resources for their families;
- Hosted a community organizing training for over 75 congregational members from the Fresno area;
- Partnered with California State University, Fresno to conduct a systematic neighborhood survey (in English, Hmong, Lao, and Spanish) of over 175 low-income families to identify community concerns.
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