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Page last updated 8-6-2015
Bill Cane, Founder of IF and Editor-In-Chief of Integrities bcane@baymoon.com
In 1975 Bill Cane and a group of friends got together to create a not-for-profit corporation called IF. Bill had been a parish priest, then director of a Center for the Deaf in San Francisco. He was also director of the Cursillo Movement and for six years a professor at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
His books include Through Crisis to Freedom (1980), Circles of Hope (1992) and Passing on the Spirit (2002). He served as executive director of IF from 1975 to 2009, and has been editor of the quarterly Integrities from 1985 onwards.
Under his direction IF worked to open out life-giving alternatives and to stand with the poor and the oppressed. Bill opposed the Vietnam War, traveled to Central America to support the movements of the poor there, and was part of the Sanctuary Movement here which protected refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
In 1975 Bill Cane and a group of friends got together to create a not-for-profit corporation called IF. Bill had been a parish priest, then director of a Center for the Deaf in San Francisco. He was also director of the Cursillo Movement and for six years a professor at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
His books include Through Crisis to Freedom (1980), Circles of Hope (1992) and Passing on the Spirit (2002). He served as executive director of IF from 1975 to 2009, and has been editor of the quarterly Integrities from 1985 onwards.
Under his direction IF worked to open out life-giving alternatives and to stand with the poor and the oppressed. Bill opposed the Vietnam War, traveled to Central America to support the movements of the poor there, and was part of the Sanctuary Movement here which protected refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala.
Lauren Moody, IF Office Manager
Lauren is the new office manager at IF. She brings years of experience working with a non profit educational board as well as office administration and marketing. She holds a bachelors degree in Biology and after a decade of living out of the area, has returned back to the Santa Cruz area where she was born. She can be reached at if.laurenmoody@gmail.com or by calling the IF office.
Lauren is the new office manager at IF. She brings years of experience working with a non profit educational board as well as office administration and marketing. She holds a bachelors degree in Biology and after a decade of living out of the area, has returned back to the Santa Cruz area where she was born. She can be reached at if.laurenmoody@gmail.com or by calling the IF office.
Janet Martinez, Publisher of Integrities
Janet, a graphic designer and multimedia publisher has lent her expertise in redesigning the hardcopy version of Integrities in 1994 establishing the use of recycled magazine-quality paper. In 2011, her experience in graphics again came in handy with the addition of the electronic version of Integrities. For the past 5 years, Janet has also been doing the office administration. She is co-director of MMPublishing with her husband, Ed for the past 30 years finding stories that need to be documented and publishing them using multi-media. Janet, also co-director of Galeria Tonantzin, a women's contemporary gallery is San Juan Bautista has worked with partner, Jennifer Colby in two watershed exhibits that has brought attention to the problems of our local rivers and watersheds. She is currently working on a project, Classroom on the Bay, which through Partners in Teaching is being presented to local teachers as one of many ecological programs directed to the Monterey Bay.
Janet, a graphic designer and multimedia publisher has lent her expertise in redesigning the hardcopy version of Integrities in 1994 establishing the use of recycled magazine-quality paper. In 2011, her experience in graphics again came in handy with the addition of the electronic version of Integrities. For the past 5 years, Janet has also been doing the office administration. She is co-director of MMPublishing with her husband, Ed for the past 30 years finding stories that need to be documented and publishing them using multi-media. Janet, also co-director of Galeria Tonantzin, a women's contemporary gallery is San Juan Bautista has worked with partner, Jennifer Colby in two watershed exhibits that has brought attention to the problems of our local rivers and watersheds. She is currently working on a project, Classroom on the Bay, which through Partners in Teaching is being presented to local teachers as one of many ecological programs directed to the Monterey Bay.
