 The Gamaliel Foundation was founded in Chicago in 1968 to assist the Contract Buyers League, which worked to assist African-American home buyers in the city’s West Side.Gamaliel was reoriented to focus on community organizing when Gregory Galluzzo was hired as executive director in 1986.Seeing its basic function as training and developing leaders in low-income communities, Gamaliel’s goal is "to assist local community leaders to create, maintain and expand independent, grassroots, and powerful faith-based community organizations" that have the power to influence political and economic decisions that impact cities and regions.