Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES) is an

interfaith Interfaith (also called "interreligion") may refer to various ways of relating between beliefs, creeds, ideologies, faiths, or religions: * Interfaith conflict (disambiguation) * Interfaith dialogue, also known as interfaith cooperation * Interfai ...

group based in

Detroit Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

, United States. MOSES was founded in 1997. As of 2002, 130 congregations were participating in it. MOSES notably campaigned for improvements to public transportation. It issued a lawsuit against the

Detroit Department of Transportation The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) (pronounced ) is the primary public transportation operator serving Detroit, Michigan. In existence since 1922, DDOT is a division of the city government, headed by a director appointed by the mayor. ...

in 2005 in protest against the lack of lifts for wheelchair users to access buses. Other subjects on which it has campaigned include healthcare, civil rights of immigrants, retail quality and public safety. From 2001 it campaigned for land banks to take control of abandoned property, leading to the establishment of the Detroit land bank authority in 2008. MOSES is currently based in the

Michigan Building The Michigan Building is an office building and the former Michigan Theater in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was constructed in 1925 and stands at 13 floors in height. The building contains a bar, restaurant, retail space, office space, a parking ...

in Downtown Detroit.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength Interfaith organizations based in the United States Christian organizations established in 1997 1997 establishments in Michigan Bus transportation in Michigan 501(c)(3) organizations Organizations based in Detroit