Editing Saul Alinsky (section)

===Industrial Areas Foundation===
{{Main|Industrial Areas Foundation}}

It has been suggested that "Alinsky is to community organizing as Freud is to analysis." Having written about it, "philosophized about it, and provided the first set of rules", he was the first to call attention to community organizing "as a distinct program, with a life and literature of its own, separate from any particular cause such as the union movement or Populism."<ref name="Slayton 1996" /> His biographer Sanford Horwitt credits Alinsky "more than anybody ... for demonstrating that community organizing could be a lifelong career."{{sfnp|Horwitt|1989|p=544}}

The Industrial Areas Foundation still claims to be "the nation's largest and longest-standing network of local faith and community-based organizations."<ref name="IAF-WhoWeAre" /> They report "victories" on, among other issues, housing and neighborhood revitalization, public transport and infrastructure, living-wage jobs and workforce development, support for local labor unions, criminal justice reform, and tackling the opioid crisis.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/interfaitheducationfund/pages/1603/attachments/original/1572004168/2018_IAF_Impact_Report_by_ISSUE.pdf?1572004168 |title=Impact Report 2018 |website=IAF |access-date=November 22, 2019}}</ref>

When Alinsky died, [[Edward T. Chambers]] became the IAF's executive director. Hundreds of professional community and labor organizers and thousands of community and labor leaders have been trained at its workshops.<ref name="dickmeister" /> [[Fred Ross (community organizer)|Fred Ross]], who worked for Alinsky, was the principal mentor for [[Cesar Chavez]] and [[Dolores Huerta]]. Other organizations following in the tradition of the [[Congregation-based Community Organizing]] pioneered by IAF include [[PICO National Network]], [[Gamaliel Foundation]], Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives, founded by former IAF trainer Richard Harmon, and [[Direct Action and Research Training Center]] (DART).<ref name="dickmeister">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dickmeister.com/id73.html |title=Labor – And A Whole Lot More: A Trailblazing Organizer's Organizer |first=Dick |last=Meister |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041021124921/http://www.dickmeister.com/id73.html |archive-date=October 21, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite episode |title=NPR Democrats and the Legacy of Activist Saul Alinsky |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10305695 |access-date=September 8, 2011 |series=All Things Considered |series-link=All Things Considered |author-link=Robert Siegel |first=Robert |last=Siegel |first2=Sanford |last2=Horwitt |station=[[NPR]] |date=May 21, 2007 |quote=Robert Siegel talks to author Sanford Horwitt, who wrote a biography of Saul Alinsky called ''Let Them Call Me 'Rebel'.'' The book traces Alinsky's early activism in Chicago's meatpacking neighborhood.}}</ref> Such had been their role in the IAF and its projects that on his ''Firing Line'' television program [[William F. Buckley Jr.|William F. Buckley]] introduced Alinsky as "the pet revolutionary of the church people of America".<ref name="MobilizingthePoor" />