Ideas at work

Find initiatives and collaborations working to eliminate disparities and learn about effective strategies for action.

aMaze
 A non-profit organization of parents, educators, and other caring adults working to create safe and respectful communities by promoting the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to work together across our differences.

Council for Crime and Justice Racial Disparity initiative
Aims to reduce racial disparity and enhance public safety in Minnesota’s justice system.

Culture Care Connection
Culture Care Connection is an online learning and resource center, developed by Stratis Health, aimed at supporting health care providers, staff, and administrators in their ongoing efforts to provide culturally competent care in Minnesota.

Jobs Now Coalition
A nonprofit whose mission is to help ensure that all Minnesota workers will have the opportunity to earn a family-supporting wage. The Coalition advances its agenda through research, education, and advocacy.

Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial community partners
Work to eliminate racism in the Twin Ports area.

HACER
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research.  HACER’s mission  is to provide the Minnesota Latino community the ability to create and control information about itself in order to affect institutional decisions and public policy.

Headwaters Foundation for Justice
A charitable foundation whose mission is to be a catalyst for social, racial, economic and environmental justice.

Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce
The vision of the Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce is facilitating a vibrant and prosperous Minnesota black business community.

Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
A statewide coalition comprised of more than 150 organizations, whose mission is to generate individualized and flexible policies, community support, and resources that will help communities to meet their local housing and homelessness system needs.

Minnesota Department of Health
Initiative to eliminate health disparities in Minnesota.

Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, Inc.
A nonprofit collaborative, founded in 1987, that seeks to increase the success of Students of Color and American Indian Students in Minnesota schools, colleges, and universities.

Minnesota Without Poverty
A statewide, interfaith movement to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020.

Research-based strategies

Listed below are proven, effective strategies linked to reports that provide data and information about how the strategies were implemented.

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