We are an Institution-Based Community Organization, through which member institutions can pursue their mission, by:
- Identifying, developing and engaging leaders and potential leaders through reflection, action and evaluation, creating a city-wide constituency engaged in community issues.
- Giving a place at the decision-making table to our communities, especially the most vulnerable among us.
- Serving as a “University of Public Life,” teaching the skills, habits and practices of faithful citizenship.
- Creating the space for people to act on behalf the common good, addressing issues identified by the member institutions
- The I/CAN action agenda is constantly developing and changing to include new issues and the efforts and emphasis of each member institution may vary.
The Interfaith/Community Action Network (I/CAN) statement of racial justice:
I/CAN firmly believes that in order to achieve racial justice in, it is essential that racial minorities not merely be the objects of the benevolence of well-wishers, but that they themselves be participants in creating the (non-partisan) political power to demand racial justice through an active participation in our democratic form of government as competent citizens and caring neighbors. Central to achieving racial justice is the Iron Rule, I/CAN’s principle of organizing: never do for others what they can do for themselves.