All Congregations Together

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All Congregations Together, ACT, is a congregation-based community organization dedicated to empowering people to effect change and improve the quality of life for our families and communities in Greater New Orleans. We do this by working to develop leaders in our member congregations and by teaching them congregation-based organizing. ACT effects change nationally in concert with PICO, the People's Institute for Community Organization, along with over 100 congregation-based community organizations in more than 80 other cities across the United States.

ACT is sponsored by the New Orleans Interfaith Sponsoring Committee, or NOISC, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

We are Christian, Muslim, Protestant and Catholic, bringing together numerous religious denominations, focusing on our common values rather than our differences. We are Black, White, Hispanic, and more. We are senior citizens, youth and all ages in between. We are from all socioeconomic backgrounds. We are from Uptown, Downtown, New Orleans East, the Ninth Ward, Tremé and neighborhoods across New Orleans. We are united by faith – faith that teaches us to reach out to our neighbors; a faith that tells us that we have a responsibility to ease the suffering of our brothers and sisters and leave this world knowing that because of us, the world is a better place than it was when we entered it – that we have indeed made a difference.

Congregation-based community organizing is also uniting people across our state. Louisiana Inter-Faiths Together, or LIFT, is a state government focused agency that serves ACT (New Orleans), WIN (Baton Rouge), COPE (Lafayette and New Iberia), BISCO (Houma and Thibodeaux), and a project in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish. LIFT is working statewide to address the issues that are common to all the citizens of Louisiana.