Greater Boston Interfaith (GBIO) Action Group

TBZ is a proud founding member of GBIO. The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, founded in 1998, is a broad-based organization that works for the public good by coalescing, training, and organizing people across religious, racial, ethnic, class, and neighborhood lines. Our membership consists of about 60 diverse congregations and institutions in Greater Boston representing more than 100,000 individuals.

GBIO is dedicated to making our Commonwealth’s cities and towns better places for all of us to live and thrive. For more than 20 years, GBIO has worked to improve housing and healthcare, reform our criminal justice system, address racial disparities, and rebuild schools and neighborhoods, among other issues.​ GBIO’s most recent platform focused primarily on issues around Housing Justice. It also included issue teams on Mental Health/Substance Use Disorders and Reentry for Citizens Returning from Incarceration. As the GBIO platform aligns with the cycles of the MA legislature, the recent Housing Justice Campaign wound down at the end of July 2024. GBIO will begin a new cycle of organizing in the fall, and there will be many opportunities to weigh in on particular issues and concerns that we’d like to see addressed.

There are small and big ways to get involved with GBIO through TBZ:

• You can join the TBZ GBIO Core Team, where you would work to coordinate TBZ participation in GBIO-wide actions, organize with the Tikkun Olam Steering Committee to build relationships and organize power in our shul, and collaborate with other religious institutions across the Greater Boston area. 
• When there is an active Issue Campaign, you can join a GBIO-wide Issue Action Team, participate in contacting legislator campaigns and/or show up for a GBIO-wide Assembly. It’s a great place to work side by side with people of many faiths and backgrounds to make our Commonwealth a more just and equitable place for everyone.

Contact: Jane Daniels or Rachel Goodman