COMMUNITY ASSETS
Brite Borderlands Institute
Brite Divinity School
TCU Box 298130
Fort Worth, TX 76129
The Brite Borderlands Institute aims to bring awareness of border experiences and issues to the community in ways that effectively shape people’s respective ministerial work and/or research. Reflecting on borderlands topics, such as immigration, the environment, and human trafficking, the Borderlands Institute lifts the veil of rhetoric and prejudice to reveal the human need for informed spiritual, justice, and community leaders.
Area served: the southern U.S.-Mexico border and the greater borderlands.
Contact: Francisco Lozada, Jr., Ph.D.
Dallas Area Interfaith
1104 Lupo Drive
Dallas, TX 75207
Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI) is affiliated with the nationwide Industrial Areas Foundation. The membership of DAI consists of dues paying institutions including congregations from a variety of faiths and community-based groups such as schools and nonprofit organizations. Individuals cannot be members. They
participate through a member institution.
DAI uses and trains people in broad based community organizing. In Dallas,current issues include predatory lending, advocating against chapter 313 tax abatement agreements that reduce school property taxes for large manufacturers and energy companies in Texas, and identification cards for undocumented foreign nationals. The Catholic parishes that belong to DAI issue IDs that enable parish members to do things like open bank accounts and take out loans.
At meetings, DAI provides translators and listening devices to translate from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English.
Contact: Walker Moore, Lead Organizer
Faith In Texas
1111 W. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 260
Dallas, TX 75247
Faith in Texas is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith grassroots movement of people united in values working together to achieve economic, racial, and social justice for all people.
We are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Unitarian Universalist, and believers in humanity. We are people of diverse races, faiths, socioeconomic backgrounds, and professions. We are your family, friends, neighbors, and community.
We are an affiliate of the Faith in Action national network, the nation’s largest network developing civic leadership in low- and moderate-income faith communities to advocate for economic and racial justice.
LA RED Platform/Initiative The LA Red (Liberation, Action, Respect, Equity, Dignity) Campaign recognizes that there are people and corporations profiting off of the suffering of immigrant families. Furthermore, immigrant families are constantly under threat of permanent family separation as a result of an antiquated, unjust, racist system focused on criminalizing immigrants. LA RED builds power by bringing together the stories of immigrants and their allies from different backgrounds to change the view of how immigration impacts our lives.
Dallas Specific: current task force formed in creating a strategic plan to CLOSE A TOWER OF THE COUNTY JAIL; which largely detains the immigrant population.
Contact: Joe Swanson