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Founded in 2002, Interfaith Youth Core[1] is an interfaith organization in the United States that seeks to make interfaith cooperation a social norm. It’s mission is to “build a movement of people from all faiths and traditions” that work together to change the world.

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IFYC is a Chicago-based organization that's striving to build a global interfaith youth movement. The organization’s guiding ideas, as described on their website, are as follows:

1. Appreciative knowledge of diverse religious traditions and philosophical perspectives. 2. Meaningful encounters between people of different faith and philosophical backgrounds, and [2] 3. Common action projects between people of different backgrounds [3].

Campaign

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Students across the United States are participating in IFYC’s Better Together Campaign, a year-long Campaign lead by students to take social action through interfaith cooperation[4][5][6][7]. According to IFYC, it has three goals:

1. Empower students like to lead activities that build interfaith cooperation on campus, 2. Equip campuses to become places where a critical mass of students participate in interfaith action and conversation, and 3. Spark a global movement of interfaith cooperation with college and university campuses at the center.

Leadership

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Eboo Patel[8] is Founder and President of IFYC. Author of Acts of Faith[9]. Eboo is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today[10][11] and CNN. He served on President Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships[12], and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.

Ocmanager (talk) 20:25, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

References

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  1. ^ http://www.ifyc.org
  2. ^ http://www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/Putnam.pdf
  3. ^ http://journals.naspa.org/jcc/vol12/iss1/1/
  4. ^ http://www.indystar.com/article/20110411/OPINION01/104110305/Interfaith-students-send-message-peace?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7COpinion%7Cp
  5. ^ http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110423/A_OPINION03/104230316/-1/A_OPINION
  6. ^ http://media.www.hamlineoracle.com/media/storage/paper1367/news/2011/02/15/News/Interfaith.Students.Help.Refugees.Settle.In.Minnesota-3977046.shtml
  7. ^ "Better Together".
  8. ^ "Eboo Patel".
  9. ^ http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1796
  10. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-11-22-column22_ST_N.htm
  11. ^ http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-04-07-patel06_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
  12. ^ http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ObamaAnnouncesWhiteHouseOfficeofFaith-basedandNeighborhoodPartnerships/
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