Other Local Organizations
Birmingham Friends Meeting is a member of or associtated with the following organizations:
Greater Birmingham Ministries
(GBM) is an ecumenical and interfaith organization in
Birmingham, Alabama, with a history of direct services and
community organizing. Begun in 1969, GBM has sought to carry out
a faith-based response to poverty by meeting people's emergency needs
while also pursuing social and economic justice for all people.
Today GBM is sponsored by twelve Christian denominations as well as by
Jewish and Unitarian congregations. GBM is supported in different ways
by an even larger number of individuals, groups, organizations and
denominations.
From its very beginning GBM has carried on three basic areas of work and ministry in the community:
1 Direct Services:
providing financial help, personal assistance and support for families
and individuals in crisis
2 Systems Change/Economic
Justice: seeking to listen to and work alongside low-income
neighborhoods as they seek to improve their lives, their
neighborhoods and the community.
3 Faith in Community:
helping the community to reflect faithfully on and understand current
social realities, especially as they affect the poor and vulnerable.
Alabama Arise - Arise
is a Coalition of religious, community, and civic groups that promote
state policies to improve the lives of low-income people.