INTERFAITH AMERICA

Innovation: in our innovation program area, ia applies learnings and expertise from our work in higher education to new sectors and changing and evolving conditions. Ia's innovation programming centers proactive engagement of religious diversity in a variety of sectors, including healthcare and health education, the growing bridgebuilding sector, democracy and civic engagement, and in workplaces and corporate spaces around the country. Ia equips partners across these sectors with skills, resources, and networking opportunities through grants and fellowships, events and convenings, trainings, strategic consultations, and other learning resources. Many of these initiatives have now become hallmarks of our programming. For example, the team up project, a collaboration with catholic charities, habitat for humanity, and y-usa, supports local leaders with grants and resources to implement service and bridgebuilding projects, inspiring communities to take action together for the common good. At the completion of the first phase of the project in spring 2024, we engaged an estimated 2,100 community members through this work.