American Psychological Association
The APA Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public
Interest (BAPPI), with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
sponsored a three year initiative that sought to enhance the capacity
of professional psychology to promote and support community efforts
that value diversity. The Valuing Diversity Project's objectives
are: to assemble a database of model programs to assist in communities
addressing diversity; assist two communities in the adoption and
adaptation of model efforts; and disseminate lessons learned.
http://www.apa.org/pi/valuingdiversity/
AntiRacismNet
AntiRacismNet provides both an online resource for the activist
community and a portal offering information about anti-racism
activities to the general public. As a public portal, AntiRacismNet
features news that gives context to information about present-day
racism, promotes anti-racism organizations, and highlights actions
in the fight against racism.
http://www.antiracismnet.org/flash.html
Applied Research Center
The Applied Research Center is a public
policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes
issues of race and social change.
http://www.arc.org
Aspen Institute Roundtable for Community Change
The Roundtable on Community Change is a forum for people engaged
in the field of comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) to
discuss the lessons learned by initiatives across the country
and to work on common problems they are facing. CCIs are neighborhood-based
efforts seeking to improve outcomes for individuals and families
and improvements in neighborhood conditions by working comprehensively.
Additionally, CCIs operate on the principle that community building
-- that is, strengthening institutional capacity at the neighborhood
level, enhancing social capital and personal networks, and developing
leadership -- is a necessary aspect of transforming distressed
neighborhoods.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Programt1.asp?i=83&bid=0
Association for the Study and Development
of Community
The Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC)
is a research and development organization for community capacity
building and social problem solving. ASDC is a values-based organization.
They are committed to promoting and supporting the social justice,
health, economic equity, and well being of all people. ASDC pays
careful attention to the lessons learned from previous research
and practice, and combines them with the experiences of participants.
Recognizing the influence of culture on individuals and communities,
ASDC considers approaches and methods that build on and respond
to cultural traditions and assets.
http://www.capablecommunities.com
California Tomorrow
California
Tomorrow has built a strong body
of research and experience supporting individual, institutional,
and community change work around matters of diversity and equity
in: public schools, community building organizations, family
serving institutions, early childhood programs, private philanthropy,
and the after school/youth development arena. Its mission is
to create a just and inclusive multiracial, multicultural, and
multilingual society by promoting equal access to and participation
in major social, economic and educational resources and institutions,
and embracing diversity as a great strength.
http://www.californiatomorrow.org
Center for Popular Education and Participatory
Research
Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research (CPEPR, pronounced
"sea-pepper") is a student-initiated center created at the
University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Education. CPEPR's
mission is to promote and support popular education and participatory
research in order to strengthen the participation of everyday people
-- especially the poor, youth, immigrants, and people of color --
in efforts for social justice.
http://cpepr.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=
3&POSTNUKESID=a1127f5ad836e2a810ceb8713db9c270
Crosspoint
The Crosspoint is the Net's biggest collection of links in the field
of Human Rights, Anti-Racism, Refugees, Women's rights, Anti-fascism,
Shoah, as well as links to Jewish organizations, Migrant organizations,
and others.
http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/
Diversity Central - Diversity Statistics
The website lists statistics from several areas such as: Corporate
Boards, Death Row, Entrants to the workforce, Hispanic female executives,
and the number and percent of people who need transplants.
http://www.diversitycentral.com/business/diversity_statistics.html
The Center for the Study of White American Culture
The Center supports cultural exploration and self-discovery among
white Americans. It encourages dialogue among all racial and cultural
groups concerning the role of white American culture in the larger
American society. They believe the task of building genuine and authentic
relationships across racial and cultural lines is crucial to the future
wellbeing of America.
http://www.euroamerican.org
Civil Rights Project at Harvard University
Our mission is to help renew the civil rights movement by bridging
the worlds of ideas and action, and by becoming a preeminent source
of intellectual capital and a forum for building consensus within
that movement.
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/aboutus.php
ERASERacism
Website pilot site, please see Acknowledgements.
http://www.eraseracismny.org
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
GCIR seeks to move the philanthropic field to advance the contributions
and address the needs of the world's growing and increasingly diverse
immigrant and refugee populations.
http://www.gcir.org/about_immigration/usmap.htm
IMPACT Silver Spring
Website pilot site, please see Acknowledgements.
http://www.impactsilverspring.org/
Institute for Race and Poverty (IRP)
IRP’s general mission is to seek to create a better understanding
of racialized poverty and its implications. IRP pays particular
attention to social, fiscal, and growth dynamics and how these
impact racialized poverty and are affected by regional policy.
http://www.irpumn.org/website/about/
Leadership Conference for Civil Rights
civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Education Fund. Its mission: to serve as the site of record for
relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information.
http://www.civilrights.org/
Maplewood/South Orange Coalition
Website pilot site, please see Acknowledgements.
http://www.twotowns.org
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
The Network is a national organization composed of local coalitions
and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor
organizations, and activists. It serves as a forum to share information
and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to
develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and
refugee issues.
http://www.nnirr.org/
National Organizers Alliance (NOA)
NOA's mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic,
environmental, and racial justice and to support, challenge, and nurture
the people of all ages who do that work.
http://www.noacentral.org/
PolicyLink
The mission of PolicyLink is to lift up and advance, from the wisdom,
voice, and experience of local constituencies, a new generation of
policies that achieve social and economic equity, expand opportunity,
and build strong, organized communities. In working to fulfill this
mission, PolicyLink is working at the local, regional, state, and
national levels to develop and advocate for policies that support
community building, including anti-poverty, income enhancement, neighborhood
revitalization, and asset/wealth creation strategies.
http://www.policylink.org
Project Change
Project Change's mission is to empower communities to reduce racial
prejudice and improve race relations, to serve as a national clearinghouse
for anti-racism information resources and training, and to further
the development of an infrastructure for social justice work.
http://www.projectchange.org
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is internationally known for its tolerance
education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists
and its tracking of hate groups. The Center's Intelligence Project
monitors hate groups and tracks extremist activity throughout the
U.S. Tolerance.org offers a wide variety of resources to support anti-bias
activism. Its outreach component provides on-site help to concerned
individuals and organizations who are working for unity in their communities.
http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
Spring Hill College – Theology Library
http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/race.htm
Tellin’ Stories
Website pilot site, please see Acknowledgements.
http://www.teachingforchange.org/DC_Projects/Telling_Stories/telling_stories.html
University of Dayton Law School – Vernellia
R. Randall, Professor of Law
The website includes stories and information about: Race, Racism and
the Law; Race, Health Care and the Law; Gender and the Law; and Legal
Education.
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/whatsnew.htm
University of Maryland – Diversity Database
The University of Maryland's Diversity Database is a comprehensive
index of multicultural and diversity resources. Including General
Diversity Resources, Institutional Diversity Initiatives, Diversity
Reference Resources, and Issue Specific.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/