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Founded in 2002, Interfaith Youth Core 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 3. Common action projects between people of different backgrounds.

Campaign
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. 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
Eboo Patel is Founder and President of IFYC. Author of Acts of Faith. Eboo is also a regular contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today and CNN. He served on President Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, 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)