CIFA Founding Partners

Founding partners ground CIFA in the interfaith community, and lend specific expertise, experience and networks to the organization. Refraining from duplicating the activities of its partners, CIFA will work through them according to their core competencies wherever possible. Founding partners and members of the CIFA Board of Trustees include:

Abed Ayoub
Chief Executive Officer, Islamic Relief USA

 

Dr. Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development

 

Dale Hanson Bourke
President, CIDRZ Foundation

 

Rev. Rich Cizik
President, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good

 

Rev. Rajmund Dabrowski
Communication Director, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

 

David Dahlin
Executive Vice President, Compassion International

 

Dr. John J. DeGioia
President, Georgetown University

 

Ambassador Mark Dybul
The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

 

Dr. Hany El Banna
Founder and President, Humanitarian Forum

 

Senator William H. Frist, MD
Chairman, Hope Through Healing Hands

 

Ken Hackett
President, Catholic Relief Services

 

Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Lloyd
Dean, Washington National Cathedral

 

Ruth W. Messinger
President, American Jewish World Service Photo by: Chrystie Sherman

 

Robert W. Radtke
President, Episcopal Relief and Development

 

Rabbi David Saperstein
Director and Counsel, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

 

Dr. Timothy Shriver
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Special Olympics

 

Richard Stearns
President, World Vision, United States

 

Dr. Sayyid Syeed
General Secretary, Islamic Society of North America

 

Ruth Turner
Chief Executive, Tony Blair Faith Foundation

 

Dr. William F. Vendley
Secretary General, Religions for Peace