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According to the Organizational Covenant of the Westwood Interfaith Council, the mission of the organization is to enable the religious congregations of Westwood to enjoy, exercise, and express their spiritual heritage through voluntary cooperation in worship, study, and community service. Building on this mission, the Council views its primary goal as fostering relationships between religious communities through education and mutual support.

The mission of the Weston-Wayland Interfaith Action Group (WWIAG) is to build community by developing a better understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of our individual, cultural, and religious differences through education, dialogue and action.

The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life now strives to support the spiritual, educational and worship needs of all Wellesley students. Support and celebration for people of Baha'i, Buddhist, Christian (Orthodox, Protestant, Roman Catholic), Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Native African, Native American, Pagan, Sikh, Unitarian Universalist, Zoroastrian and other religious traditions is offered through the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. Support for the spiritual journeys of students, faculty and staff both within and outside of institutional religious contexts is offered through a series of programs on moral, ethical and spiritual issues. In addition, all college community members are invited to discover the common spiritual threads which bind us together as one people through a series of multi-faith educational programs and community worship opportunities.

The mission of the Wakefield Interfaith Food Pantry is to provide emergency food supplies to Wakefield residents who need a helping hand regardless of religious affiliation, if any.

The primary aim of our campus ministry is to help students to develop intellectual understanding of their faith, and to deepen their self-knowledge and their relationship with themselves, with God, and with others. In this, our aim is to help students cultivate integration of their personhood, which is an essential quality of emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being as well as success in their studies. We encourage people to be faithful to their own heritage of faith and to develop and deepen their faith journey by exploring, welcoming, and appreciating diversity.

The Tufts Chaplaincy is committed to modeling interreligious harmony and well-being at Tufts. On the one hand, each member of the Chaplaincy is here because of a vibrant religious tradition which is part of the Tufts community; each chaplain serves those who are in that tradition through regular worship and other programs. On the other hand, valuing pluralism and multiculturalism, we will educate tomorrow's leaders for global citizenship by actively encouraging dialogue and cooperation among the wide variety of religious traditions on our campuses. In this work we will take special concern to include smaller groups like Eastern Orthodox Christians, Hindus, and Buddhists.

Caleb owns and operates affordable housing, from elderly complexes to low-to-moderate income multi-family projects throughout New England.

The Interfaith Center has three main functions: to be an ethical voice on the campus; to serve as an educational advocate for students; and to act as a counselor or spiritual guide to students and faculty.

Social Action Ministries (SAM) organizes and educates clergy and lay leaders about homelessness. Now a program of MHSA, SAM encourages the involvement of all faiths in legislative advocacy to end homelessness.

Safe Havens is an interfaith organization dedicated to strengthening the capacity of faith communities to engage in a coordinated effort to end domestic violence. Working as a bridge between diverse religious community and social service providers, Safe Havens creates systemic change by providing education, resources, advocacy, and technical support to improve access to services for all persons affected by domestic violence, to promote responsible action, to foster leadership development, to encourage community collaboration, and to generate public policy.

RUAH aims to increase understanding among religious traditions, to provide spiritual sustenance to all, and to create peace one person at a time.

Religious Witness for the Earth (RWE) is a national, independent, interfaith network dedicated to creating a society in which human beings live in loving, just relationships with one another and with all Creation.

The RCC provides opportunities for religion communicators to learn from each other. Together, RCC members promote excellence in the communication of religious faith and values in the public arena and encourage understanding among religious and faith groups.

Building Community with uprooted people to serve the common good.

Serving Greater Boston's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People of Faith

The Spiritual Life Center is dedicated to:Serve, support, nurture and celebrate the spiritual & religious well-being of all at NU. Build campus awareness of the role and importance of spirituality. Support the needs of the community by offering: accessible, appropriate worship and meeting space; spiritual resources and educational materials; and a strong diverse team of staff and chaplains. Offer campus programs that foster: deeper spiritual understanding; healthy religious practice; reflection on ethical decision-making; and organic integration of spiritual wellness into ones' daily life and work. Encourage an overall NU vision that institutionally honors the spiritual well-being of all those in its campus community, neighborhood community, and world community. Build a campus atmosphere of active interfaith dialogue and cooperative engagement among faith groups that promotes understanding and respect among individuals, as well as a healthy commitment to one’s own faith. Help improve the overall breadth of opportunity and quality of life for students at NU. Foster a program of social action and volunteerism in the community, which is informed at its root by spiritual values and imperatives. Support, embrace and respect the richness of diversity on all levels, including for those among and within faith traditions; those who are marginalized within their faith communities; and those who hold to no particular spiritual tradition.

To equip individuals of different faiths with the skills to engage with and understand those from whom they differ. To enhance inter-group relations on campus, and to deepen individuals’ self-awareness.

MICAH is a faith-based congregation-based community organization that works to build power to improve the community.

The new Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations has been established to: Promote understanding and reverence for the richness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, our history together, and the imperatives of caring contemporary and ongoing relations; Act to break down and heal all stereotypes and prejudices directed at members of our communities: antisemitism, anti-Christian animus and Islamophobia; and Join together to act more effectively for justice and for peace.