R David Moore
M.Div., Th.D., MBA
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As a young minister, a key turning point for him was the mounting AIDS deaths, and how unconcerned America’s religious community seemed to be about it. His volunteer chaplaincy efforts in San Francisco at the height of the epidemic drove an ever-increasing focus on activism, advocacy and organizing. His subsequent social change efforts spanned from imploring San Francisco churches to support Prop K (which called for the reinstatement of the 1990 domestic partnership registry on behalf of AIDS patients) and organizing Raise the Roof (interfaith fundraisers for 30+ burned African American churches in Alabama in the 1990s) to co-founding Clergy Against Prop 8 and serving as founding chairman of Defy Ventures (a national program that equips persons with felonies to launch and lead their own companies).
He co-founded Music Bridge, an early digital music platform that allowed artist-activists, unsigned artists and artists with AIDS to get their music out into the world (upon acquisition, proceeds were distributed to all participating artists) and iPeerion, a social benefit tech incubator. And, he is Advising Partner at HomeWorks Homes, a social justice real estate startup launched by Crystal Crawford, MMI board member and his youngest sister, based on her lived experiences, and seeing what entrenched poverty has done to her community. HomeWorks obliterates the many hurdles that lock the working poor out of homeownership and lock them into a lifetime of renting.
He is author of Me & Mary: An African American Grandma, the Grandson She Raised, and the Lessons She Taught Him, and This Land Is Your Land: How the Greatest Sociological Shift in United States History is Changing Everything. And What that Change Requires of Us, as well as his personal publication, Letters From A Birmingham Boy. His film credits include The Falls trilogy, LUZ, and Room to Grow, a documentary about six diverse LGBTQIA+ youth and their efforts to find themselves, as well as The Patient, a documentary about people committed to living vital lives even as they contend with cancer, and Tipping Point: What the Portland Protests Tell Us About the State of America.
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As a young minister, a key turning point for him was the mounting AIDS deaths, and how unconcerned America’s religious community seemed to be about it. His volunteer chaplaincy efforts in San Francisco at the height of the epidemic drove an ever-increasing focus on activism, advocacy and organizing. His subsequent social change efforts spanned from imploring San Francisco churches to support Prop K (which called for the reinstatement of the 1990 domestic partnership registry on behalf of AIDS patients) and organizing Raise the Roof (interfaith fundraisers for 30+ burned African American churches in Alabama in the 1990s) to co-founding Clergy Against Prop 8 and serving as founding chairman of Defy Ventures (a national program that equips persons with felonies to launch and lead their own companies).
He co-founded Music Bridge, an early digital music platform that allowed artist-activists, unsigned artists and artists with AIDS to get their music out into the world (upon acquisition, proceeds were distributed to all participating artists) and iPeerion, a social benefit tech incubator. And, he is Advising Partner at HomeWorks Homes, a social justice real estate startup launched by Crystal Crawford, MMI board member and his youngest sister, based on her lived experiences, and seeing what entrenched poverty has done to her community. HomeWorks obliterates the many hurdles that lock the working poor out of homeownership and lock them into a lifetime of renting.
He is author of Me & Mary: An African American Grandma, the Grandson She Raised, and the Lessons She Taught Him, and This Land Is Your Land: How the Greatest Sociological Shift in United States History is Changing Everything. And What that Change Requires of Us, as well as his personal publication, Letters From A Birmingham Boy. His film credits include The Falls trilogy, LUZ, and Room to Grow, a documentary about six diverse LGBTQIA+ youth and their efforts to find themselves, as well as The Patient, a documentary about people committed to living vital lives even as they contend with cancer, and Tipping Point: What the Portland Protests Tell Us About the State of America.
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