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Welcome to the site of Milwaukee Innercity Congregations Allied for Hope!
Milwaukee Innercity Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH) is a multiracial, interfaith organization committed to addressing justice issues that impact the community in which we live. MICAH seeks to empower people to organize and take action to resolving critical issues as well as political iand social imbalance. Through leadership training and development, we believe that people can shape their own destiny and create positive solutions to the issues in our community. Please take some time and go through our site to see the legacy of the work of justice while gaining an understanding on current projects and initiatives.
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MICAH Kicks off Campaign with Power
MICAH Launches New Campaign for Jobs For Immediate Release August 16, 2007 Contact: Christopher Boston, MICAH Director 414.264.00805 www.micahempowers.org Leaders from Milwaukee Innercity Congregations Allied for Hope and ally organizations launched plans for a powerful effort called, The People’s Campaign. A standing more
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Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
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June 1, 2008 "To Do What Is Just" Annual Dinner
MICAH will host our sixteenth annual, "To Do What Is Just" celebration dinner on Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, 333 W. Kilbourn Avenue. More than 500 leaders from the greater Milwaukee Region will come together to celebrate MICAH's work of doing justice through leadership development and congregation-based organizing. This year, we are celebrating our 20 year anniversary as an organization. The guest speaker for this dinner will be Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Executive Director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) in Los Angeles, California.
Please contact us to purchase your table or to purchase an advertisement in our program booklet. Hurry, limited space is available for this event and time is running out fast if you wish to publish your ad. To receive our 2008 ad purchase form electronically through e-mail, please contact the MICAH office at 414.264.0805.
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The People's Campaign--Working for Good Jobs!
In 2007, we launched The People's Campaign and released the "Ten Commandments of Economic Justice," a guiding principles document developed by grassroots and working people( link/attachments/wysiwyg/15/TenCommandments.pdf). As we build on the priciples of the "Ten Commandmants of Economic Justice," and the strength of The People's Campaign, we plan to organize for action and power and win major accomplishments in areas such as:
- Increasing available jobs that provide family supporting wages and solid benefits
- Push for job training that leads to marketable skills and actual employment
- Connecting workers to jobs through creating affordable public transportation alternatives
- Engaging ex-offenders and recovering addicts to sustaining job opportunities
"Come, all you who are thirsty..." Isaiah 55
Faith and Common Destiny Training
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
1615 Wauwatosa Road
If your soul is thirsty for a better city, county and country, you are encouraged to attend the Faith and Common Destiny Training. This will be an opportunity for you and your congregation to further connect the faith values of your institution into the work of community transformation in a deeper and more dynamic way. This training is best designed for multiple leaders from a congregation seeking to build leadership teams in congregations.
For more informaiton or to register, please contact 414.264.0805.
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