Re-igniting the Progressive Faith Community for Moral Messaging

To revitalize a progressive religious movement as an identifiable moral backbone for the overall progressive movement, Faithful America and Faith Voices for the Common Good are seeking support to create a joint information-delivery and technology infrastructure to reach mainstream religious people with progressive messaging through innovative social software, such as Faith Voices’ unique, interactive Synanim technology (Synanim.org). This collaboration will expand the current reach of the two organizations for optimum messaging and coordination of work to engage both clergy and laity in more active participation in providing moral frameworks for the progressive movement. This linkage will broaden their reach by growing www.faithfulamerica.org from 100,000 to a target of 500,000 members and Faith Voices from 20 to 50 organizational members to support Faith Voices’ Gather Heart messaging system for clergy, which enables clergy to create sermons online with Synanim. Between them, the two organizations have potential access to 86,000 clergy and 45,000,000 Christians. The joint infrastructure will provide world-class clergy leadership training and a dynamic and centralized online service for growing a progressive religious movement. It will engage persons of faith in public debate and enable interactive discourse on progressive values, thereby strengthening the moral public voice of the progressive movement.

Contacts:    

• Rita Brock
• 510-839-4432

• Vince Isner
• 202-544-2350 ext. 206