S OWI NG S EEDS OF CH ANGE
Interfaith Youth Core
Interfaith Youth Core
1111 North Wells Suite 501
Chicago, Illinois 60610
www.ifyc.org
A N N UA L R E P O R T
2004–2005
2004-05 was a remarkable year of growth for the Interfaith Youth Core. There were
many visible examples; participation in our National Days of Interfaith Youth Service
doubled to nearly 3000. The Chicago Youth Council, now organized in cooperation with
DePaul University, expanded to 15 college and high school students who conducted a
very special year-long service project. Our Education and Training Program presented a
graduate course at Chicago Theological Seminary. Through our Knowledge Creation and
Dissemination Program (and by invitation) the Interfaith Youth Core vision was featured
in major newspapers, magazines, journals, public engagements, and will be showcased
in an upcoming PBS documentary.
Even as these visible aspects of our growth made a difference in the culture, it was
our investment in areas less public which will insure stable, strategic and sustainable
expansion into
the future. We
added new
members to
our board,
representing
the city’s
highest level
of corporate,
civic and
religious
leadership.
We enriched our capacity
by hiring a strong administrative team and building systems that will foster dramatic
growth. Our budget tripled through support from individuals, foundations, venture
philanthropists and earned program revenue.
All these elements—combined with our own strong personal commitments to strengthen
our own faiths and share our values across faith traditions through community
service—form a powerful core or trunk that an organization like ours needs in order
to represent and nurture the field of interfaith youth work. We’re fed by roots that
reach far into the community—touching faith and civic leaders, funders, secondary
and post secondary institutions, congregations, youth advisors, young people and their
families. We’re rising upward, branching outward and sprouting splendid leaves
as our Chicago Youth Council graduates are starting interfaith programs on their own
college campuses… Students from our seminary course are becoming youth pastors at
churches and involving their youth groups in service projects with local mosques and
synagogues….And an expanding network of organizational affiliates are hosting interfaith
youth service events in their cities across the nation, exporting our program models, and
developing their own ways to spread the seeds of the Interfaith Youth Movement.
2005-06 will see the Interfaith Youth Core tree growing taller and stronger, our roots sunk
deeper, our foliage becoming fuller, our seeds spread wide. We’re working toward the day
when our one tree becomes a wonderful forest—and the center of a dynamic, vibrant
ecosystem that nourishes the human spirit and unleashes our boundless human potential.
Eboo Patel
Anne Hallett
Ron Kinnamon
Executive Director
Board Chair
Past Board Chair
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DI RECTOR’S LETTER
L
ike trees, nonprofit sustainability requires development in areas seen (programs,
public engagements and publications) and unseen (active board, talented staff,
diversified funding, a hearty organizational infrastructure, best practices and planning).
T H E E DUCATI ON AND TRAI NING PROGRAM
I went back to my own faith to answer
CASE STUDY: A Community of Faith Communities
the questions I was being asked by
Originally established as a special
IFYC project in 2003, the Suburban
Education Partnership (SEP) has
become a vital element of our Education and Training Program. During
the academic year, IFYC Education
and Training staff meet twice monthly
with advisors from three faith-based
school partners—Chicagoland Jewish
High School, Loyola Academy and the
Muslim Education Center—to facilitate
after-school meetings of the Emerging
Leaders Initiative (ELI). Two student
ELI representatives from each school
participate in interfaith dialogue and
plan interfaith youth service projects
and other special programs for the
entire student bodies of all three schools.
people of other faiths, and this has
deepened my faith.
– Adina Teibloom, CYC alumni
This year, ELI’s program theme was
Good Neighbors in Service, which
allowed students to build on the
hospitality and service their schools
had shared in the previous two years.
During the academic year, Chicagoland
Jewish High School welcomed 20 students and advisors for an evening
of hospitality and learning about
Sukkoth. Loyola Academy welcomed
a similar group of 26 for an evening
of presentations on diversity in
Christianity, Judiasim and Islam. A
group of 30 from ELI participated in
IFYC’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of
Interfaith Youth Service at DePaul University, and 24 joined in the IFYC National Days of Interfaith Youth Service
at the Food Pantry in Glenview,
IL. Afterwards, each school made
presentations on the role of prayer
in their respective faiths.
As this innovative program enters
its fourth program year, advisors
and students are strengthening their
commitment to The Beloved Community. This emerging community of
three unique faith communities plans
to work with refugees who have settled
in Chicago as they explore the issues
of war and genocide from their
respective traditions as the basis for
learning how to become global
neighbors who can work together to
serve the global community.
he Education and Training Program (EAT)
partners with faith-based youth program
ANNUAL REPORT
professionals faith-based school educators
2004–
2005
and administrators to deliver innovative
interfaith learning, reflection and action
activities based on our Shared Values Methodology.
Together, we create and sustain a safe, respectful and
collaborative space in which young people of diverse
This vital IFYC area develops and delivers
Shared Values Trainings provide onsite
curriculum for both the Chicago and
support for organizations interested in
National Action Programs. Our Good
nurturing the interfaith youth movement
Neighbors in Service curriculum focuses
in their own communities and include:
faiths, from middle school through university, share their
on four modules: Hospitality, The
World House, Service and The Beloved
• Shared Values Discussion Facilitation
religious faith through service (hands) and story-telling
Community. Each provides young people
• Service Project Coordination
(heart). By learning the public language of faith they
of faith with an opportunity to discuss
strengthen their religious identities; serving together they
with other faith communities. Using
and reflect upon the values they share
promote the common good; joining together they build
scriptural excerpts, they explore their own
The Beloved Community—a community of all
stories with members of their own faith as
• Day of Interfaith Youth Service Organizing
• Interfaith Youth Council Advising
experiences of these values by sharing
faith communities envisioned by the Rev. Dr. Martin
well as those from other faiths.
Luther King, Jr.
IFYC’s Professional Development and
Training builds and strengthens the values,
skills and experiences necessary for
building the interfaith youth movement in
Chicago and throughout the U.S.
If you are young and
Chicago-based Internships for
religious in this country,
undergraduate or graduate students
part of what you should be
in religious studies combine practical
about is coming together
experience in interfaith dialogue and
service with hands-on work experience
with people who are
and exposure to our local and national
different than you to serve
interfaith networks.
your communities with
compassion.
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CH I CAGO ACTION PROGRAM
CASE STUDY: Why Are We Here
The Chicago Youth Council (CYC)
began in 2001 as a program for
religiously diverse high school students
in Chicago. The focus of the project
was to give young people of faith an
experience of how they might cooperate
to serve their local community together.
This intensive leadership development
program has expanded over the past
5 years to include DePaul University
students as mentors and has more than
doubled its members. This year’s class,
the most successful to date included
high school students, 5 of whom were
Jewish 2 Muslim and 1 Protestant and
Catholic each.
hicago Action Program (CAP) is a unique set
of integrated programs that gives area
High School and University Students the
experience and skills necessary to lead
interfaith youth work while collectively
addressing the needs of the Chicago
community. CAP combines:
• Outreach Workshops in faith
communities
• Days of Interfaith Youth Service
By bringing together a growing,
committed network of faith
communities, religious institutions
and service partners, we hope to
transform Chicago into a model
interfaith youth city, where diverse
young people of faith cooperate to
strengthen their religious identity,
share their religious values
and serve the common good.
Our model begins with Outreach
Workshops delivered to faith communities
designed to inspire congregations to
embrace the power of interfaith youth
IFYC’s Shared Values Methodology.
During our Season of Interfaith Youth
• A Youth Council that meets weekly to focus on
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Interfaith
service project
Bantu language is oral, not written,
which posed challenges for the children
who were not only learning a new language but learning to hold a pencil for
the first time. To celebrate the strength
and creativity of the Bantu—and
encourage literacy—the CYC chose
to write a book for and about the
children enhanced by the childrens’ own
illustrations. A series of interviews and
discussions resulted in “Why Are You
Here?” a book that tells the stories of
the Bantu Diaspora and also shares the
thoughts of the CYC members about
who we all are and where we have come
from. Gathering with the children one
last time to read their book aloud, CYC
members experienced deep meaning
and satisfaction as they realized that
giving voice to the Somali Bantu also
gave powerful voice to their own
commitment to serve as young people
of faith.
work, and to provide an introduction to
• Multi-school Partnerships
leadership development and undertake a year-long
Six DePaul students—3 Catholic and 3
Protestant—were chosen as facilitators
along with two CYC alumni from the
previous year. For the first quarter of
the academic year, they met Mondays
to build skills necessary for leading high
school students through an intensive
interfaith, leadership development,
service-learning program. Together
we chose the theme “Welcoming the
Stranger” as the year’s focus, and felt
a refugee population would be a good
service partner.
The IFYC partnered with Interfaith
Refugee & Immigration Ministries
and used its afterschool tutoring program
as the CYC service site. Between
January and May, CYC met each
Monday afternoon to dialogue with one
another, spend time learning about refugees (more specifically the Somali Bantu
refugees) and to tutor the children from
that community.
Service (SIYS), which embraces both the
Youth Service and the National Days
of Interfaith Youth Service (NDIYS),
hundreds of religiously diverse high school
and university students from all over
the city of Chicago gather to meet one
The Chicago Youth Council (CYC),
an intensive interfaith, leadership
development, service-learning program
run in partnership with DePaul University,
gives area High School and University
Students the experience and skills
necessary to lead interfaith youth work
I was able to interact and talk with
while collectively addressing the needs
other people my age who are just as
of the Chicago community.
strong in their respective faiths as I
another, engage in service projects, share
am. It is very rare to get a group of
how their faiths inspire them to serve the
people together who are articulate
broader community and enjoy special
ceremonies like Sacred Poetry Slams
about and passionate about their faith.
featuring talented poets and artists from
And having the opportunity to simply
Chicago’s distinct religious communities.
talk about faith openly is very rare,
but very important.
– Christy Reh, CYC Facilitator
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NAT I ONA L ACT I ON PROGRA M
ational Action Program serves as an
Through our service days and our
Jewish youth to participate. During these
extension of the Chicago Model and
workshops, IFYC has educated, involved
days, students from diverse faith traditions
or trained tens of thousands of people
came together to participate in dialogue
an embodiment of our national growth
across multiple layers of leadership:
and service projects unique to the needs
strategy, catalyzing effective interfaith
teenagers; youth advisors; college and
of each community where the events were
seminary students; congregational leaders;
held.
youth work projects in cities and college
interfaith professionals; and leaders of
campuses across the United States
civic institutions.
builder is best showcased in our National
Typically, outreach workshops and public
which brings together a powerful group of
lectures are held on campuses across
emerging young interfaith leaders from all
the country and are designed to reach
over the nation to share experiences, ideas
• Facilitator Training
students, chaplains and other campus
and best practices (page 8) .
• National Days of Interfaith Youth
addition, National Program staff conducts
mission because, for one,
onsite facilitator training in select cities and
personally I have grown
through:
• Outreach workshops/lectures
Service
national and international religious and
Our role as convener and capacity
Conference—held annually in Chicago—
administrators and faith leaders. In
provides print and DVD training materials
religiously through this group
• Organizational Capacity Building
to all interested organizations via the IFYC
website and email. IFYC also provides
and more then ever, have gained
• National Conference on Interfaith
consultative Technical Assistance and
religious understanding of
Youth Work
Training to faith-based organizations and
other groups. I feel like I have
institutions interested in exporting our
models and programs
served the community in a very
The National Days of Interfaith Youth
productive and compassionate
Service, held on 20 campuses and cities
manner.
across the country, were expanded from
– Jessica Libigs, CYC Facilitator
one to two days this year and held over an
entire weekend in order to allow observant
CASE STUDY: Reducing Tensions on Campus
When IFYC started working at the
University of Illinois at UrbanaChampagne, it was popularly known
as one of the campuses in America
where Muslim-Jewish tensions were
highest. Conflict over the IsraeliPalestinian crisis had led to physical
and verbal confrontation, spitting, and
inflammatory defacement of property
and the devastation of many pre-existing friendships. In the spring of 2003,
IFYC recruited 3 summer interns from
UIUC’s student religious leadership
and trained them over the following
summer. These students had previously
led dialogues of a theological and
political nature, and were frustrated
that they sometimes furthered, rather
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We have accomplished our
than quited the conflict. They learned
IFYC’s alternate methodology of focusing on the unique religious expressions
of shared values and opportunities for
cooperative action. They acquired skills
for implementing the methodology
through dialogue facilitation, targeted
recruitment and event and action
planning.
awareness and service initiatives and
mentored additional students into leadership positions. This year, students at
the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign had been so energized
by their first NDIYS project that two
leaders formed Interfaith in Action—
a group that held bi-weekly interfaith
dialogues and led service projects.
In the fall, the three interns returned
to campus and formed an inter-religious
student steering committee that
organized the most successful campusbased National Days of Interfaith Youth
Service (NDIYS) event that year,
spun-off a student organization that
developed year-round interfaith
In planning for their second NDIYS,
organizers gathered an ethnically and
religiously diverse steering committee
of student leaders which, in turn,
recruited five service site partners
and over one hundred high school
and college participants. Interfaith
work at the University has been further
supported through summer internships
with the Interfaith Youth Core. This
second tier of student leaders, all of
whom hold leadership positions in
their own religious communities on
campus, recently presented at our
national conference this May, and
reported that tensions on campus have
nearly disappeared and that there is a
much more constructive inter-religious
conversation. Like many others with
whom we have worked closely, one
of these young leaders has committed
herself to a professional path of interfaith youth work describing this choice
as “finding my life’s calling.” She is
now a member of the IFYC staff.
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Journals: In addition to an ongoing presence
as a writer of journal articles and whitepapers,
IFYC Executive Director Eboo Patel was
the guest editor of the Spring 2005 edition
of CrossCurrents Magazine titled “Current
Issues in Interfaith Action”, featuring articles
by Martin Marty, Tony Campolo, Imam Feisal
Abdul Rauf and other leaders and luminaries
in interfaith work. In addition to ongoing
articles in Interreligious Insight,
four Muslim
and Jewish high
schoolers wrote
an article on their
IFYC experiences
for the progressive
Jewish journal
She’ma that
was featured on
the magazine’s
website.
Books: Building
the Interfaith
Youth Movement,
a book co-edited
by Eboo Patel and
Patrice Brodeur, is
slated by AltaMira
Press for a 2006
release. Dr. Patel
is under contract
with Beacon Press to write a mainstream
book tentatively titled Bridges or Bombs: The
Role of Religious Youth in America for which
research is underway.
Media: IFYC has consistently garnered
national and local media attention throughout
the year. Recent articles include “Engaging
Young People in the Service of Others,” a
profile of IFYC by Harvard Professor and former US Ambassador Swanee Hunt, that was
picked up on the AP wires and ran in several
papers. In April, “Youths Bridge Differences,
Help Others” was published in the Louisville
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Courier-Journal. The Chicago Tribune ran
a front page feature on The Somali Bantu
project on Sunday, June 6; during the year
Eboo Patel authored three op-ed pieces for
the Chicago Tribune’s “Perspectives” section:
an article on Dr. King titled “An Interfaith
Hero;” “Young Followers May Be Top Legacy
of Pope John Paul II” following the Pontiff’s
death, and a piece entitled “Aftershock:
Matters of Loyalty, For Country and the
Koran.” During the Chicago National Days
of Interfaith Youth Service, a crew from
Kartemquin Films, producers of the awardwinning film Hoop Dreams, followed three
young Chicago Youth Council participants for
an upcoming PBS series on good works being
done at the community level.
Speeches and Presentations: IFYC Executive
Director Eboo Patel was invited to give the
sermon at Rockefeller Chapel’s Annual
Thanksgiving Service and the Baccalaureate
Address at the University of Pennsylvania.
Along with Education and Training Director,
Garth Katner, he presented at the US Institute
of Peace Workshop on “Teaching about
the Religious Other” which 20 college and
university professors attended. Dr. Katner
delivered presentations in many venues
including The Fellowship of Reconciliation
National Conference, sponsored by Occidental
College, held in Los Angeles, in August 2004
and The 1st Annual Conference of Interfaith
Youths, held in Jos, Nigeria, in April 2005.
National Program Director, April Kunze,
presented “Organizing Interfaith Youth
Work” at Parliament of the World’s Religions
in Barcelona, July 2004 and delivered
other presentations at the Student Interfaith
Conference at Princeton and the Fresno
Youth Service Project speech in February
and March 2005, respectively. At the end
of July, Dr. Patel received notification that he
had been selected to play a featured role in a
town hall-style meeting at the kick-off of the
Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
IFYC achieved some remarkable outcomes and the organization exceeded goals framed
for stakeholders at the start of the fiscal year. The IFYC Board of Directors added talented,
committed members; attendance at Days of Interfaith Youth Service increased; new
institutional partnerships were built and old ones strengthened; we not only enriched
and expanded our curriculum, we now have exciting new venues where it is delivered;
and finally, we received funding to begin a rigorous year-long strategic planning process
designed to help us assess and align every aspect of the organization’s processes and
programs with our powerful mission and to develop a plan for continued success.
Organizational Capacity
The IFYC Board of Directors grew to 15,
with key members taking an active role
in the strategic planning process which
extends into mid-2006. The organization
embraced BoardSource best-practices
for governance: revising bylaws, adding
important fiduciary-related standing
committees and incorporating board selfassessment. We built a donor database,
and implemented new financial policies
and accounting systems, refined our
branding, began a major upgrading of
office technology and support staff and
a significant website redevelopment.
Partnerships
DePaul University—the country’s most
religiously and culturally diverse urban
center of learning—brought in IFYC
as an organizational partner to explore
interfaith service learning and leadership
development. Our working model has been
so effective on the campus that we jointly
applied for funding to develop and deliver
comprehensive curriculum for university
courses and co-curricular programs.
DePaul administration, faculty and staff
have shown great support of our work and
methodology—several faculty members and
department chairs from religious and peace
studies involved students in our programs,
faculty participated in IFYC trainings and
joined us in visioning the future of interfaith
youth work on DePaul’s campus.
Curriculum
We created our Good Neighbors in Service
curriculum: 4 modules on 1) Hospitality
2) The World House (MLK) 3) Service
and 4) The Beloved Community. We also
developed 3 trainings (print, video and
downloads) on Facilitating Shared Values
Education Workshops, Organizing Interfaith
Youth Service Projects and Coordinating
NDIYS. Finally, we made our first foray into
delivering post-secondary curriculum with
“Interfaith Action in the World” an 8-week
course co-taught by Executive Director,
Dr. Eboo Patel, PhD and Education and
Training Director Garth Katner, PhD.
The class drew 9 students from Chicago
Theological Seminary, Lutheran Theological
Seminary of Chicago, Catholic Theological
Union, and University of Chicago Divinity
School, who participated in the course and
in IFYC service events. Dr. Katner taught a
class for Loyola University World Religions
(9 Catholic, 2 Presbyterians, 1 Lutheran)
and facilitated a special after-school project
bringing together young people from Temple
Beth Emet and St. Scholastica High School.
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Outreach
We reached more than 1,127 people in
Chicago—representing 8 faiths and more
than 40 faith communities during our service
events and outreach presentations. 250
students (as well as chaplains and other
campus administers and faith leaders)
experienced outreach workshops on
campuses and in cities including Chicago,
Metro DC, Houston, Seattle and Boston.
Meetings in Boston and the San Francisco
Bay Area led to increased interest and
further exploration on ways to replicate and
adapt IFYC’s Interfaith Youth City Model.
Our NDIYS events reached over 3000 young
people on 20 campuses. And, finally, our
two-day National Conference on Interfaith
Youth Work attracted 65 emerging interfaith
leaders for idea exchange and innovation.
(see page 7 & 8 for event and conference
highlights)
Network Growth
Over 75 groups requested the full set of
IFYC training materials, with 20 groups
using them to organize NDIYS projects.
National Programs Director, April Kunze
personally trained leaders from Louisville,
Atlanta, Seattle, Fresno, San Francisco,
Washington DC, Ossing, NY, Boston,
Philadelphia and Houston either on-site
or via phone conversations.
2004/2005 IMPACT
T H E K NOW L E D G E C R E AT ION AND DI S S EMI NATION PROGRAM
For interfaith youth work to be recognized and institutionalized as a field, it needs both a
knowledge-base and outlets to disseminate that learning. This is the job of the Knowledge
Creation and Dissemination program of the IFYC. Through speeches at academic and
other high-profile venues, articles in popular and professional journals, magazines and
newspapers, books and conferences, IFYC is helping not only helping to spread its mission
and vision, but also to launch new dialogue about what it means to be—and what it means
to build—a pluralist society.
S E RV I C E DAYS AND NATI ONAL CONFERENCE
committed to empowering young people
of faith to live out their values and lead the
nation’s religious communities to become
good neighbors on earth.
Season of Interfaith Youth Service 2005 (SIYS) made important strides
towards our basic goal of bringing young people from different faith
communities together to develop leadership skills, build positive
interfaith relations, and engage in cooperative service. On
the 2nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Interfaith
Youth Service, young people gathered from more
than 21 faith communities to make blankets for
refugee children and dialogue about MLK as
a model for interfaith community building.
As they worked side-by-side they talked with
one another…asked questions...learned
from each other. A Sacred Poetry Slam at
the end of the event gave voice to the new
friendships born on that day. Students left
feeling like they had embodied Dr. King’s
legacy—by crossing boundaries, acting on
their inspirations and making a contribution
to the community at large.
During the National Days of Interfaith Youth
Service (NDIYS), we chose to deepen our
relationship with student leaders in Chicago
by presenting a program with a more
intensive curricula and service experience.
What was once a one day event became a
weekend of interfaith service and dialogue
drawing over 150 young people from the
Chicagoland area to work in community
centers and senior citizen homes across
the city. One participating group—a peace
studies class from DePaul University—chose
IFYC as their service site for the year and
were involved the entire weekend. At the
end, one DePaul student described her
experience as “an event” that brought her
closer, in one weekend, to classmates she’d
sat next to all year but may never have gotten
to know.
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The National Days of Interfaith Youth
Service is an annual event, held over one
weekend in April, in which thousands of
religiously diverse young people of faith
come together in hometowns and college
campuses across the nation to serve their
communities with compassion. This year, the
second in the history of the event, 20 cities
and college campuses participated. It’s a
grassroots phenomenon—planned and run
by hundreds of local student leaders, college
& university chaplains, congregational youth
leaders, and interfaith organizers who are as
united in a vision of possibility as they are diverse in background. The young people who
organize and participate in NDIYS embody
the impulse of service in their religious traditions and work toward understanding
the similar impulse in the traditions of their
peers and neighbors. Together, they are
This year, DC Steering committee members
affiliated with organizations including Habitat
for Humanity, Interfaith Works, Points
of Light Foundation and the InterFaith
Conference to plan a very successful twoday NDIYS. Over 120 youth and adults
performed service for Emmaus Services for
the Aging, D.C. Habitat for Humanity and
the Chesapeake Bay Foundation cleaning
senior citizens’ apartments and building
homes for low-income families; additionally,
in cooperation with the Religious Partnership
for the Anacostia River, 90 students helped
clean the river and its banks. The three
sites attracted volunteers interested in
different types of projects and the weekend
event nearly doubled its participants from
the previous year. Powerful relationships
were built between local organizers and
youth participants. Finally, under the
sponsorship of Points of Light Foundation,
NDIYS organizers began working to create
a summer-long interfaith service project.
This group intends to work with Religious
The National Conference on Interfaith
Youth Work is the forum for building the
interfaith youth movement – by convening
its key partners to 1) discuss the theory
and practice of interfaith work with youth
and young adults; 2) cultivate networks
and collaborations within and across
relevant fields and leadership levels; and
3) exchange skills, resources, knowledge
and best practices in interfaith youth work.
Past attendees have included professionals,
lay people and students from high schools,
colleges, seminaries, youth development
organizations, religious communities, civic
organizations and interfaith organizations.
This year, over 65 young interfaith leaders
gathered at DePaul University in mid-May,
for the 3rd National Conference on Interfaith
Youth Work, where they focused on ways to
strengthen and enrich the National Days of
Interfaith Youth Service (NDIYS). A report on
the conference proceedings and is available
at www.ifyc.org.
A Boston steering committee was formed
at the conference, made up of 5 attendees:
a Harvard Divinity Student and former
IFYC Intern; the Assistant Director of The
International Center for Ethics, Justice
SOME EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Chicago Outreach/Events
During the year we reached more than
1,127 people in Chicago—representing 8 faiths and more than 40 faith
communities, including 330 during
Chicago’s National Days of Interfaith
Youth Service and over 200 for the
Martin Luther King Day of Interfaith
Youth Service. An April outreach event
with the Albany Park Neighborhood
Council touched 32 Filipino students
from ACCESS-Philippines (17 Muslim,
10 Catholic and 5 Pentecostal) visiting
the US on a program sponsored by the
US State Department and Northern
Illinois University as well as 6 Muslim,
5 Lutheran, 7 Catholic students from
the Albany Park neighborhood.
NDIYS and National Conference
Participation
Partnership for the Anacostia River again
and plans on targeting and attracting more
participants and deepening dialogue in
future years. Building on the popularity of
this year’s NDIYS programming, organizers
are planning another two day NDIYS event
for 2006.
We have not only accomplished
our mission, but we have lived
our mission as well which I feel is
much more important. We did an
amazing project and developed
and Public Life at Brandeis University;
2 Brandeis students, including an IFYC
leadership program graduate now co-chair
of the university’s Council for Religion and
Spirituality and president of the Religious
Pluralism group on campus; and a recent
Ithaca College graduate now attending
divinity school in Boston. The group created
a summer meeting schedule to begin
planning days of service and ongoing service
projects in conjunction with the creation of
a Boston-based model Interfaith Youth City
and Youth Council. Additional explorations
also began with Interfaith Center of Greater
Philadelphia on ways of replicating faithbased education partnerships for their area.
friendships with diverse people
that will hopefully last forever.
– Jennifer Bailey, CYC Alumna
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NDIYS events reached 3000 young
people on over 20 campuses—
including Brandeis University and
MIT in Boston, Oxford College (Emory)
in Atlanta, University of Illinois at
Urbana and DePaul University in Chicago. The 2005 National Conference
on Interfaith Work, held in Chicago in
May, drew 65 attendees from diverse
backgrounds spanning Islam, Judaism,
Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity,
Buddhism and Baha’i and included
high school and college students from
cities as diverse as Louisville, KY,
Philadelphia, PA and Ripon, WI.
Steering Committees
The Chicago Program maintained a
steering committee of 7 faith and civic
leaders and began been building
connections with additional leaders to
advise on local programming. In addition
to strengthening steering committees
throughout the country, IFYC has added
members of service day steering committees from Boston and Metro DC to
the National Steering Committee for
NDIYS.
STATEMENT OF ACTIVI TI ES
Year Ended July 31, 2005
Revenues, Gains and other Support
Unrestricted
Restricted
Individual/business
$28,690
$—
Religious/civic/NGO
Corportate/business/grants
Total
Expenses
Contributions*
Foundation/trust grants
Non-profit organiztion grants
Chicago Program
96,372
96,372
4,300
4,300
National Program
43,851
43,851
1,000
1,000
Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
16,618
16,618
Education and Training
57,566
57,566
Global Initiative
15,000
15,000
229,407
229,407
154,898
154,898
1,824
1,824
156,722
156,722
386,129
386,129
571,885
101,600
673,485
8,400
8,400
15,000
15,000
Program service fees
5,701
5,701
Interest and dividends
1,493
1,493
Other
1,508
1,508
Total revenues, gains and other support
Total
Program services
27,250
NGO contract revenue
Restricted
$28,690
27,250
Board contributions and other contributions
Unrestricted
665,227
101,600
Total program services
Supporting Services
Management and general
Fundraising
Total Supporting Services
Total Expenses
766,827
Change in Net Assets
279,098
101,600
380,698
101,600
434,630
Net Assets
Beginning of year
Percentages of Contributions
End of year
53,932
53,932
333,030
Foundation/
trust grants
Individual/business
Board contributions
Non-profit grants
Religious/civic/NGO
Corporate/business/
grants
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* Temporarily restricted net assets totaling $101,600 are available for the following purposes or periods: Capacity-building & technical support- $21,600;
Assistant Executive Director salary support - $ 15,000; General support for the year ended July 31, 2006 - $65,000
The Interfaith Youth Core is designated by The Internal Revenue Service as a 501 (c ) (3) nonprofit corporation.
Interfaith Youth Core Financial Statements are audited by Mann-Weitz Associates, L.L.C. certified public accountants. The full audited financial statements are
available upon request in writing to Interfaith Youth Core. The Form 990 is available online at Guidestar.org
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DONORS
Gregory Kulis
$101– $250
$501 – $1000
Michael H. Lavin
Scott Alexander
Cheryl Anderson
Valerie Adegbite-Calloway
Wanda Arakaki Le
Rabbi Heather Altman
Marjorie Benton
Ivy Anderson
Mark Lukens
Michael Baker
Richard Blewitt
Del & Barb Arsenault
Flynn McRoberts
Kiley Bednar
Kayla Cohen
Guy Izhak Austrian
Abdulai S. Mohammad
Dr. Patrice Brodeur
Professor Sam Fleischacker
Bill Ayers
John Morrison
Erica Brown
Sally Fletcher
Marshall Bouton
Deborah Moore
Crystal Chan
Anne Hallett
Karen R. Brown
Judy Nagel
Ben & Karina DeHayes
Michael Josephson
Colman & Susan Buchbinder
Wayne Parman
Elizabeth Dow
Rabbi Andrea London
Avi Handelsman
Rahim Patel
INDIVIDUAL DONORS
$10 – $100
FOUNDATIONS/CORPORATIONS
The Ansara Family Foundation
Ashoka Foundation
Boeing
Chicago Community Trust
Community Foundation of Northwest
Indiana
Driehaus Foundation
EOJ Pasillo Consulting
Guerrand-Hermes
The Henry Luce Foundation
Jenesis Group
April Kunze
The Kaplan Foundation
Joseph McGough, Jr.
Over $1000
Mary Page
Ron Kinnamon
Marvin Segal
Disha Patel
Rev. Kenneth B. Smith
Reverend David Pattee
The Kellcie Fund
Mayer, Brown, & Rowe
The MacArthur Foundation
McCormick Tribune Foundation
Joel Teibloom
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Mary Ann Cronin
Robert Pavlik
Cindy Davenport
Eboo Patel
$251 – $500
Hands of Peace
The Polk Bros. Foundation
Linda Dean
Rev. Sara Webb Phillips
Dr. Afzal Ahmad
Impact Coalition
Seabury Foundation
Ms. Shiply Dhingra
Jeff Pinzino
Cameron Avery
Faith & Values Media
Shinnyo-En Foundation
Thomas Drexler
Laura Provinzino
Shamim and Anvar Kanchwala
LaSalle Street Church
Speh Foundation
Craig Hilton Dyer
Jane Rechtman
Shehnaz Mansuri
Saint Paul’s United Church of Christ
Spencer Foudation
Rabbi Robert Feinberg
Myron Resnick
Michael McPherson
Sharon Interfaith Action
United States Institute of Peace
Ann Feldman, Ph.D.
Amanda Revera
Eileen Momblanco
Unity In Chicago
Samuel Fifer
Eugene C. Roehlkepartain
Rev. Laura Truax
Harold Gerber
Susan Rofine
Mark Walden
Professor Peter Gilmour
Renate Rose
Faye T. Wrubel
Java Goldberg
Rt. Rev. Victor A. Scantlebury
Laila Gulzar
Rabbi Herman E. Schaalman
Zena Handlon
Paul Shadle
Heartland Sangha
Don & Corrine Slaughter
Scott & Julie Hershovitz
Emily Soloff
Sandra Hietala
Randall Styers
Claudia Horwitz
Yaser Tabbara
Jean Judd
Pisaami Vogelaar
Concetta Kenney
Greg Weider
Chris Kozlowski
Howard Weiss, Ph.D.
John P. Kretzmann
Catherine Yachnin
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ORGANIZATIONS/CONGREGATIONS
DONATIONS IN KIND
National CineMedia
Sadru Patel
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STAFF
Directors
Dr. Ebrahim Patel, PhD
Board of Directors
Stephen Bell
Executive Director
Attorney at Law and Partner at Goldberg, Kohn,
Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz
Karin Pritikin, MPH
Assistant Executive Director
Kayla Cohen
April Kunze
Associate Director of Sales, Training and
Development, Kraft Corporation
Executive Program Director
Mariah Neuroth
Sam Fleischacker
Chicago Action Program Director
Professor, Department of Philosophy, University
of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Garth Katner, PhD
Sunil Garg
Education and Training Director
Treasurer
Director, Exelon Corporation
Staff
Umnia Khan
Chicago Action Program Associate
Meghan Murphy
Executive Assistant
Cecelia Weiss
Executive Assistant to the Director
2004-2005 Interns
Sarah Bier
Caitlin Y. Buysse
Arielle Hertzberg
Joanne Hoagland
Season of Interfaith Youth Service
Steering Committee
Erica Brown
Northwestern University
Linda Dean
YMCA
Melanie Maron
American Jewish Committee
Mariah Neuroth
Interfaith Youth Core
Dr. Tasmeena Ghazi
Co-founder, Executive Board member
and Director of Curriculum and Instruction,
The IQRA Foundation
Jason Renken
Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
of the Archdiocese of Chicago
Michelle Schackmann
Interfaith Youth Core
Hina Sodha
Usra Ghazi
Alumna of IFYC Chicago Youth Council and
student at DePaul University
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan
Chicago
Mark Walden
Anne Hallett
Chair
Former Executive Director of Cross-City
Campaign for Urban School Reform and former
Executive Director, The Wieboldt Foundation
Father James Halstead
Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral
Education (SCUPE)
National Days of Interfaith Youth Service
Executive Steering Committee
Julie Eberly
Jessica Joslin
Ordained Catholic Priest and the Chair
of the Dept of Religious Studies at
DePaul University
Ramah Khudaimi
Kareem Irfan
Leah Lyman
General Counsel for Schneider Electric and
outgoing Chair of the Council of Islamic
Organizations of Greater Chicago
Rebekah Emanuel
Ron Kinnamon
America’s Second Harvest
Rubi Hosni
Nick Price
Sarah Rossi
Michele Shackmann
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Rev. Mark Farr
Points of Light Foundation
JAM at Yale U
Maurice Weaver
Christina Wright
Past Chair
Retired Assistant National Executive Director of
the YMCA of the USA
Erik Schwarz
2004 –2005 Volunteers
David Braden
Rabbi Andrea London
Taneeza Islam
Rabbi, Beth Emet Synagogue in Evanston
Islamic Society of North America
(and Communities Working Together)
Eileen Momblanco
Christina Wright
Shakara Bush
Attorney at Law, Law Firm of Minsky,
McCormick & Halligan, P.C.
Harvard Divinity School/Pluralism Project
Reverend David Pattee
Interfaith Youth Core
Theo Brown
Fara Cage
Jason Gonzalez
Jessica Gonzalez
Melissa Kusack
Ryan Langer
Christina Leiffring
Lauren Menger
Jolene Moorman
Ahmed Refaey
VP for Development & External Affairs, Chicago
Theological Seminary
Harold Richman
Founder and Director Emeritus at the Chapin
Hall Center for Children
and Former Dean of the School of Social
Administration, University of Chicago
Chapin Hall Center for Children
Reverend Laura Truax
Senior Pastor, LaSalle Street Church
Anna Rudzinski
Lindsay Salon
Anna Stratton
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Interfaith House Project
April Kunze
Annapurna Astley
Kashi Ashram
Sarah Talcott
United Religions Initiative
Credits:
Photos: Eileen Ryan Photography, Chicago
Emily Evans, Naiveté Records
Design: Forward Design, Chicago