The Interfaith Strategy for Advocacy & Action in the Community is choosing its priorities for the next two years, and it wants your help.
Each year, ISAAC holds a convention that allows the public to vote on issues facing Kalamazoo County. The short list this year includes poverty, gun violence, racism, and education.
The group always reaches out to the community to help identify the issues people and organizations think are most important. But ISAAC volunteer Rochelle Habeck says this year it did something different. “We’ve partnered with people who have relationships with the identities in our community that are most impacted right now.”
Those "identities" were Temple B’nai Israel, Interfaith homes, the Kalamazoo Islamic Center, El Concilio Kalamazoo (formerly the Kalamazoo Hispanic American Council), and neighborhoods on Kalamazoo's northeast and south sides.
Habeck says the ISAAC's work does make a difference.
“The volunteer work with ISAAC has allowed me to be part of very significant changes that have led to lasting improvements to vulnerable populations in our community."
A task force will work on the two issues picked at the forum October 29. It starts at 7 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1515 Helen Street, in Portage.
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