Valley Interfaith Project

Valley Interfaith Project (VIP) is a broad based, non-partisan organization committed to building relational power through organizing people for sustainable social and economic improvement.  VIP members are institutions: dues-paying member congregations, schools, unions and non-profits.

Our work is accomplished by:

  • institution-based leadership development;
  • building relationships within and between institutions;
  • identifying and researching issues of mutual self-interest;
  • disciplined, organized action.

Through this organizing strategy, VIP develops a constituency of leaders to become citizens in the fullest sense: participants in democratic decision-making and agents of the creation of a more just society through the exercise of relational power.  

Valley Interfaith Project is affiliated with the Industrial Areas (IAF), the oldest and largest national organizing and leadership development network in the United States and the West / Southwest IAF.


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    VIP Advances 'Yes in God's Backyard' Legislation for Affordable Housing

    [Excerpt] ...faith leaders and lawmakers from both sides... support two bills. The first: HB 2815, known as “Yes in Gods Back Yard”. About HB2815, Rev. Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan, Minister at Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation said, “Many of our congregations are sitting on unused land that they're eager to convert into affordable housing. This bill would adjust zoning to make it easier to do so. With restrictions on density to ensure projects fit with neighborhoods and requirements that the units be affordable to low- and middle-income people." Then there’s HB2576. This would renew the state's low-income tax credit.  Both bills work to address a long-term affordable housing solution while leveraging private equity. Religious Leaders Calling on State Lawmakers to Address Housing Crisis, ABC 15 [pdf] Religious Institutions Want AZ Law to Allow Low-Income Housing on Their Property, KJZZ [pdf]
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    VIP Charts Course on Proposal for Affordable Senior Housing

    [Excerpt] What we kept hearing was housing, affordable housing in particular, and rental housing," said Barb Quijada of the Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Chandler. ....VIP had been hosting open house meetings for about two years, where representatives ask people about the real-life problems they are confronting. Interfaith Group Maps Campaign for Dominion, Arizonan SanTan Sun
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