Congregation-Based Community Organizing (CBCO)
is a process in which congregations build deep relationships among their own members and with other institutions across lines of faith and race. Through building relationships, congregations identify deeply and broadly held concerns of injustice and then bring their collective power to successful action to transform their communities.
Working with local community organizing groups, Reform congregations across the country, along with their diverse partner congregations, have already achieved significant victories on issues of affordable housing, health care access and affordability, nursing care quality (for both patients and employees), air quality improvement, and much more. Westchester Reform Temple is actively engaged in this process and proud to be one of the lead congregations of this initiative in the Westchester community.
On May 11th, 2011, this initiative officially became Westchester United.
See the highlights from the evening.
This process is an initiative of the Union for Reform Judaism. More information about can be found at
http://urj.org/socialaction/training/justcongregations/
