Founded in 2016, Be the Bridge is a non-profit organization that exists to empower people and cultures toward racial healing, racial equity, and racial reconciliation. Our vision is that people and organizations are aware and respond to the racial brokenness and systemic injustice in our world, that we are no longer conditioned by a racialized society but are grounded in truth, and that all are equipped to flourish. We build everything we do on the values of truth-telling, humility, respect, confession, grace, justice, and reconciliation. We work to pursue racial justice and increase racial literacy with our programs and trainings, resources and communities.

POWER represents over 50 unique congregations in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania. With four Regional Chapters, we are people of faith committed to the work of bringing about justice here and now. We believe that faith can bring us together more than it can divide us and that our varied faith traditions call on us to act to make our communities and our nation better places to live. POWER is a member of the Faith in Action National Network. We organize toward a new society based on equity, sustainability, and love. We are strong, multi-racial, people-centered organizations that relentlessly press for social change. We are also members of PowerSwitch Action (formerly known as The Partnership for Working Families), a national network of 21 powerful grassroots organizations with strategic alliances amongst labor, housing, racial justice, faith leaders, environmental organizations and others. POWER uses our belief in God’s goodness and compassion for the suffering to organize and empower the people of Philadelphia, Southeastern, and Central Pennsylvania to live and work together so that God’s presence is known on every block, that people work together to transform the conditions of their neighborhood, and that life flourishes for all.

Shining a light on broken systems:

POWER has come together to lift up a new prophetic voice and bear witness to the fact that these systems no longer work for too many families in too many neighborhoods. Systems that allow for 30% unemployment in some of our communities, particularly our communities of color; wherein nearly 50% of our children can’t read or perform math, or graduate on time, and that appear to continually be in crisis; systems that allow one of our brothers or sisters to be murdered nearly every day; systems that allow more than 100,000 city residents to go without health insurance, and that allow a tenth of our properties to lie vacant or abandoned or foreclosed – these are broken systems. And while this brokenness hurts all Pennsylvanians, POWER recognizes and seeks to address the fact that it is the poor, communities of color and working families of all kinds who suffer the brunt of declining opportunities and dysfunctional systems. POWER commits to call attention to this brokenness, to advance concrete policy changes to reform these systems and to work with public and private sector leaders to bring the necessary resources to bear to turn these systems, and our city, around.

Vote Common Good is inspiring, energizing, and mobilizing people of faith to make the common good their voting criteria. And, we train and support candidates to connect with Evangelical and Catholic voters.

“We are countercultural and revolutionary.”

“We are a place where the church actually looks and acts like Jesus. A revolution of the heart. The church should be joy and life, not preoccupied with keeping the lights on or fixing the roof. Dream something new and different.”

Our vision is to know Jesus and change the world. We can do that by proclaiming the Gospel, empowering our churches, and addressing the pain and poverty. We have the gifts, resources, people, and faith. Together we are change agents for Christ.

“The Episcopal Church must become a place of belonging, not just a place of welcome.”

The New Evangelicals is an inclusive, Jesus-centered community that holds space for those marginalized by the evangelical church through building community, exploring faith and advocating for systemic change.

The mission of The Shepherd Society is to provide a channel for the global family to encourage and financially assist struggling people as a response to the Gospel call to love our neighbors. Shepherd Society partners with international organizations, Christian institutions, and churches to extend Christ’s love in a practical way. 

Mobilizing people of faith to make the Common Good their voting criteria.

An inclusive, interfaith outreach for progressive people of all faiths and beliefs that is committed to spiritually and politically defeating Trumpism.

Provides practical resources for cultivating a life that makes us like Jesus from the inside out.

Speaking in one voice, condemning Christian nationalism as a distortion of the gospel of Jesus and a threat to American democracy.

Providing compassionate Christian thought leadership, nourishment, resources, and community.

Pooling money with people you know to give to people you care about.

Plant With Purpose is an international Christian nonprofit organization working at the intersection of poverty alleviation, environmental restoration, and spiritual renewal.

Red Letter Christians UK is a network for people who want to take Jesus’ words seriously in our personal devotion, in our communities and in UK public life. Jesus’ life and words move us to respond to poverty, injustice and exclusion with compassion and action.

A national organization working to transform the justice system by promoting responses to violence that break cycles of trauma. EJUSA promotes a justice system centered on redemption and healing.

Positively influencing culture by training and promoting leaders of color.

Repairers of the Breach is building a movement rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country.

Provides high-visibility resources, leadership, support, educational and direct action events and activities within the broader anti-death penalty movement.

Works for beloved communities to unlearn habits of social division and to meet Jesus in the neighbor and the stranger, making surprising friendships possible.

Faith in Public Life advances the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country so everyone is able to live into their full humanity.

Serves as a catalyzing agent for Christ’s shalom via projects focused on cultural renewal, holistic ministry, political reflection and action, social justice and reconciliation, and creation care.

To inspire hope and build a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.

Training people of faith to engage our divided world in restorative ways.

Opening the door for a critical mass of spiritual seekers to experience the transformative wisdom of the Christian contemplative tradition and nurture its emergence in service to the healing of our world.

EJI is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

To inspire, train, and connect Christians who seek to bear witness to the Kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities.

Supports and amplifies the voices of local peacemakers by waging nonviolent direct action to confront systems of violence and oppression.

An eclectic network of evangelical thought leaders and activists dedicated to making broad cultural impact through prophetic witness to the whole church.

Working for a new culture of nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction.

A national call for moral revival that seeks to build a broad, fusion movement to unite poor and impacted communities across the U.S.

Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Orthodox, African-American and Protestant Christian Communions & organizations in the U.S.A. witnessing together to the reconciling power of the gospel of Jesus.

An international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the kingdom of God.