IWJ has not only developed a workers center model but has also assisted in the building of 12 workers centers. The religious community has found these centers to be a good place to meet immigrant workers and to stand with them when needed. In addition, IWJ each year helps approximately 30,000 workers get better wages and benefits. Interfaith Worker Justice has created hundreds of religious resources on economic justice issues. Its staff discovered, for example, when working with young women in a National Council of Churches planning meeting, that these young adults knew almost no labor history. IWJ promptly provided basic introductory information in a resource which soon became one of their most requested publications. Currently materials are being designed to engage people in the Wal-mart Week of Action, November 4 - 11, and in International Human Rights Day, December 10. IWJ offers the Seminary Summer program that enables 40 seminary students to work with unions each summer. Most seminary students come to the program with lots of head knowledge about justice, but little practical experience. Most know little about unions; most have never participated in direct action, and most come from privileged backgrounds and have little direct experience with workers in low-wage jobs. Once students get over the first week of culture shock working in a union office, the experience transforms them. They return to their schools advocating new classes on economic justice and organizing living wage policies to ensure that janitors and other staff are paid decently. Many students in the Seminary Summer program find it challenges their world view and transforms their ministries for years to come. Nominated by