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. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 Chicago, Illinois - June 12, 1972 Carmel, California) is generally considered the father of community organizing. ...
The IAF, through its local affiliates, were in part responsible for the success of living wage initiatives in several U.S. cities. Living wage refers to the hourly wage that one deems necessary for a person to achieve a basic standard of living. ...
The foundation's current executive director is Edward T. Chambers.
The IAF has a number of activities that it is pursuing on a nationwide basis, but two are of immediate concern: those in the areas of education reform and welfare.
The 1997 Wander Forum Foundation Commentary on the Campaign for Human Development established that the IAF interfered in the Orange County, California elections of 1996, supported a pro-abortion candidate, and was implicated in the voter registration of a significant number non-citizens.
IAF activities in the area of education reform contradict Catholic teaching.
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