To dismantle religious bias and bigotry, ICJS builds learning communities where religious difference becomes a powerful force for good.

Nonprofit and civic organizations regularly navigate religious difference, whether through workplace culture, community partnerships, public programming, or questions of equity and belonging. Yet many leaders have little formal space to reflect on how religion shapes the environments in which they work. Over the past year, fellows in the program put those ideas into practice through…

For years, ICJS has worked with middle and high school teachers from public, independent, and religious schools navigating one of the most complicated realities of American education: Religion is present in the classroom, even when no one names it. Students bring religious identities, assumptions, histories, holidays, and inherited narratives with them every day. Teachers do…

I grew up believing “the separation of church and state” was gospel. I fought anyone who tried to tell me otherwise. It didn’t help my position that I grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where most residents were Mormon and upfront about it. I was an outlier—the one kid in school who didn’t stand…

I grew up in a mixed-religion family—one side Jewish, one side Methodist. My parents were effectively nonreligious, but they took my siblings and me to Unitarian Sunday school and encouraged learning about other religions.  Because of my background, I was intrigued to learn about the Fellowship for Nonprofit and Civic Professionals at the Institute for…