Christian, Muslim, Baháʼí, Jewish, Buddhist, and beyond, Interfaith Philadelphia is led by a professional team and Board of Directors whose members reflect a broad spectrum of religious, ethnic, and racial communities.  These leaders advance the agency’s mission by drawing on their collective experience in interfaith relations and diversity work conducted in civic, governmental, community, and educational settings.

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Interfaith Philadelphia’s holistic approach to learning engages the head, the heart, and the hands through teaching, dialogue, and service.  Formal projects, or Signature Initiatives, have the same goal, which is to create communities of hope and reconciliation throughout our region—in workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods.  We bring together religious leaders, congregants, and youth to get to know each other as people and to learn how to value and respect the “other” while maintaining (and often strengthening) their own religious identities.

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Interfaith Philadelphia works strategically with people in workplaces, congregations, schools, and neighborhoods.  Based on the social-ecological model, Interfaith Philadelphia posits that change cannot occur without impacting multiple levels of influence.  Social change at Interfaith Philadelphia is defined as increased social harmony.  Consequently, we focus on changing attitudes and increasing knowledge at the individual level, developing relationships across differences at the interpersonal level, building bridges between diverse communities at the community level, and creating a new public narrative at the societal level. This approach cuts across all of our programs and guides our focus into the future.