Industrial Areas Foundation
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The Industrial Areas Foundation is a Chicago-based community organization established in 1940 by Saul Alinsky. It does not explicitly promote any ideological agenda, but rather seeks to build a network of affiliates focused on specific social and political goals. It describes its chief purpose as power and its chief product as social change.
The IAF, through its local affiliates, were in part responsible for the success of living wage initiatives in several U.S. cities.
The foundation's current executive director is Edward T. Chambers.
[edit] See also
- Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE) - A local IAF affiliated based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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