Mission, History, Membership

Mission: Our mission is "to mobilize congregations and communities across economic, religious, racial, and ethnic boundaries so that, in partnership, we can work more effectively for a just society."

History: CMM is the greater Boston area's oldest interfaith social justice network. Founded in 1966 by faith communities to address poverty, housing, and racial justice in Boston and to link urban and suburban congregations in just, transformative partnerships, CMM has tackled the most pressing issues facing our communities for 42 years, working to build Dr. King's vision of Beloved Community for all citizens. 

Membership: CMM’s members and partners include nearly 100 congregations, nonprofit agencies, and educational institutions in Boston and 16 surrounding cities and towns. Traditions represented in CMM’s membership include Jewish,  Muslim, United Church of Christ, Catholic, American Baptist, United Methodist, Quaker, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Pentecostal, nondenominational, Unitarian Universalist, Bahai, and secular allies inspired by conscience. CMM’s approach to social action and cross cultural/interfaith partnerships affirms the necessity of partnerships and dignity and value of all persons in our common quest for justice and peace. 
Organizational Partners

CMM organizational partners are nonprofit organizations and community based ministries whose programs and service delivery are consistent with CMM's mission and current priority issues of housing and homelessness, at risk youth and families, and cross-cultural understand. This also includes an organizational structure and programming that lends themselves to working in partnership with CMM member congregations through volunteerism and other means of support. 

CMM ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AGREEMENT

  •     Amachi Big Brother- Big Sister
  •     Anti-Defamation League, New England Region
  •     City Mission Society
  •     Discover Roxbury!
  •     Dorchester Nazarene Compassionate Center
  •     Ella J. Baker House
  •     Freedom House
  •     Grow Clinic, Boston Medical Center
  •     Horizons for Homeless Children
  •     Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
  •     One Family, Inc.
  •     PARENTS FORUM
  •     Pine Manor College
  •     Project Hope/Transition to Work
  •     Project Care &Concern
  •     Sabrina's House
  •     Sweet Home Project
  •     Tieng Xanh Voice
  •     Welcome Baby Program, The Family Nurturing Center of MA
  •     Women's Theological Center
Board of Directors and Advisory Council

CMM Board Members (as of November 2011)

Latifa Turner Ziyad, Board President
Nurradeen Development and Wider Muslim Community

Omar Abdul-Malik, Board Vice President
Cambridge Center for the Study of Religion and Public Policy

Maxine Lyons Board Clerk
Temple Beth Zion, Brookline

Dr. Mary Kay Klein, Board Treasurer
St. John Chrystostom Church, West Roxbury 
& Bridgewater State University

Kathleen Kelly MSW/MA, MBA, LCSW
Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Dr. Peter Stringham, MD
All Saints Parish, Brookline

Dr. Bijoy Misra
Harvard University & Wider Hindu Community


Bruce Steiner, Ph.D
Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Rev. Dr. David Killian
All Saints Parish, Brookline

Deb Longabaugh-Burg
Merrimack College, North Andover

Dr Alice Kidder
First Church in Cambridge

Rev. Dr. David Killian
All Saints Parish, Brookline

Ronald Aamir Mahdi, Masjid Al-Quran
Dorchester & Berklee College of Music

Norman Carl Miller
Trinitarian Congregational Church, 
Concord Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness (ANEFH)

Alexander Levering Kern, ex officio
Executive Director, CMM

CMM's Board Members Emeritus/a
Rev. John Odams
Pilgrim Trinitarian Congregational Church, Dorchester

Peter Barrer
Shir Hadash, Newton



Elsie Dorain
Wellesley Hills Congregational Church
CMM's Committee and Working Group Leadership (as of December 2010)

Convenor, Advocacy Network to End Family Homelessness
Normal Carl Miller, CMM Board Member

Co-Chairs, Program Subcommittee for CMM's RUAH Interfaith Programs in Spirituality, Education, and Dialogue
Dr. Mary Kay Klein, CMM Board
Maxine Lyons, Temple Beth Zion, Brookline

Chair, Development Committee
Kathleen Kelly, CMM Board Vice-President

Co-Chairs, Haiti Action Network
Brian Corr, Executive Director, City of Cambridge Peace Commission
Minister Sandra Dorsainvil, First Baptist Church of Needham
Alexander Levering Kern, Executive Director, CMM,
Rev. Dr. Thomas Saint-Louis, New Covenant Church of Cambridge

Chair, Metro Boston Interfaith Working Group On Housing and Homelessness
Alexander Levering Kern, Executive Director, CMM

Nominating Committee
Ronald Aamir Mahdi

CMM Staff

Alexander Levering Kern, Executive Director
Matt Carriker, CMM Program Director, Coordinator for the Interfaith Youth Initiative (IFYI)
Teresa Malloy, Bookkeeper
Ellen Lagerman, 2011-2012 Social Action Intern
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Office: (617) 244-3650
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Matt Carriker, Program Director/IFYI (ifyi@coopmet.org)
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