Gamaliel Today

Gamaliel Today - SVI is an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation

The Gamaliel Foundation is an organizing network of 60 affiliates in 21 states across the U. S. and five provinces of South Africa. We represent over a million multi-faith, multi-racial church-going people who work on social justice campaigns. WWW.gamaliel.org

Gamaliel, as initially conceived, had as its goal the creation, maintenance and expansion of independent local organizations. This goal remains at the very core of the mission of the Gamaliel Foundation.

To this end Gamaliel:

works with leaders in communities to create new and powerful faith based organizations,
provides an array of leadership training programs and consultations, and
provides research and analysis on issues.

These organizations exist to be the vehicle for ordinary people to impact political, social, economic and environmental decisions that affect their lives.

Over the past three years the Gamaliel Foundation has expanded on its original mission in the following manner:

It moved new and existing organizations to accept a metro equity lens to understand and address seemingly endemic urban problems.
It has invited all of its affiliates to participate in a national campaign around the civil rights of immigrants.
It has set the stage to formalize a new mission of the Gamaliel Foundation that maintains its original goal of creating and maintaining local organizations, while adopting a structure to move toward a “more perfect union” which will, while creating a structure to work on national campaigns, also energize and enhance the goal of creating powerful local organizations.

The commitment to be a national organization gives purpose, direction, and energy to creating and maintaining local organizations.

Gamaliel operates in urban, suburban, and rural communities. Its methodology has proven effective in inner city African American and Latino communities, townships in South Africa, and in working and middle class communities in suburbs.