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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/

 

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