Welcome to the Ohio IAF!
Ohio IAF is a network of non-partisan community organizations founded by the Industrial Areas Foundation, the nation’s oldest community organizing network. Ohio IAF builds permanent coalitions of religious congregations and community organizations that can recruit and train local volunteers to increase civic participation in their own communities -- not as an end in itself, but as a strategy for building community power and winning on important issues.
In the 2008 Presidential Election, Ohio IAF projects in Columbus, Dayton, and Lorain ran the largest volunteer-based non-partisan get-out-the-vote campaign in Ohio. We found that unlikely voters contacted by our local volunteers were 80% more likely to vote than those not contacted. Ohio IAF organizations continue to engage volunteers and community leaders in issue organizing projects year-round, addressing social justice concerns such as affordable housing, living wage jobs, access to health care, immigrant rights, education, and neighborhood blight.
Ohio IAF Organizations
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