The Arizona Council on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is dedicated to engaging and mobilizing all faith communities to improve the quality of life for our most vulnerable and impoverished people through a statewide, action-oriented collaboration of faith-based, community and governmental organizations.
Council Leadership:
- Chair – Dr. Gary Kinnaman, Pastor-at-Large
- Vice Chair – Dr. Richard Knopf, ASU Partnership for Community Development
- Staff/Admin – Chuck Fitzgerald, Arizona Department of Economic Security
Members:
- Marvin Murray, Abounding Service
- Nicola Winkel, Arizona Coalition for Military Families
- Rev. Jan Flaaten, Arizona Ecumenical Council
- Dr. Paul Eppinger, Arizona Interfaith Movement
- Capt. Chris Melvin, Arizona National Guard Joint Family Programs
- Dr. Richard Knopf, Arizona State University
- Ginny Hildebrand, Association of Arizona Food Banks
- Jon McHatton, Care Inc.
- Robert Brown, Catholic Charities Community Services
- Vacant, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Ben Sanders, Church on Mill
- Mitzila Hogans, City of Phoenix
- Billy Thrall, CityServe Arizona
- Scott Neuman, Coconino County
- Jessica Major, Connecting to Serve
- Bob Burns, Desert Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church
- Jack Hanstein, Episcopal Community Services
- Dr. Teri Traaen, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Grand Canyon Synod
- Pastor Aubrey Barnwell, First New Life Missionary Baptist Church
- Linda Morris, First Pentecostal Church
- Liliana Jorge, Housing and Urban Development
- Dr. C.T. Wright, The Light of Hope Institute
- Dr. Charles Monroe, Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest
- Linda Leatherman, Pima County
- Jane Pearson, St. Luke’s Health Initiative
- Kathy Wilson, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona
- Joyce Lopez-Powell, Valley of the Sun United Way
