Racial equity resource directory
Below is a listing of racial equity programs and training providers serving faith communities, civic organizations, educational institutions, and anyone working to combat racism and increase cultural competence.
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Achieving Cultural Competency Consulting Services
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
3800 40th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-722-0796
Achieving Cultural Competence strives to create lasting change by cultural competency and inclusion. Unique tools and methods are offered to assist organizations and the community to live and work more effectively in a multicultural society. Services include consultation in cultural competence, multicultural social research, civic engagement, facilitation and training. Governments have had success using the model we offer to convene constituents and create change together. All work is based on community strengths.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Consulting
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
2525 East Franklin Avenue Suite 200
Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-332-4471
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability works for racial, economic, and environmental justice in the ways growth and development occur throughout the Twin Cities region by offering peer learning opportunities with and about racial justice analysis and supporting coalitions engaged in campaigns that tackle structural racism.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
aMaze
Families All Matter Program
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance.
P.O. Box 17417
Minneapolis, MN 55417
612-724-4323
Families All Matter (FAM), a program of aMaze, offers anti-bias programming for elementary and early childhood education. It uses children's literature to introduce diversity themes through the lens of family, and includes an easy-to-use companion guide. In 2010, aMaze will introduce similar programming for middle schools. aMaze provides trainings & workshops on issues related to anti-bias work with children and was awarded a mission award for anti-racism initiatives by the MN Council of Nonprofits.
Serving: Faith communities, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Anti-Defamation League
The Miller Early Childhood WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Initiative
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
309 W Washington St, Suite 750
Chicago, IL 60606
312-208-7967
The Miller Early childhood Initiative of the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute is please to announce a generous grant from Harvey L Miller; includes a number of anti-bias workshops and resources being offered at no charge or low cost to Minnesota
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Antiracism Study Dialogue Circles (ASDIC) Partnership
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
371 West Baker Street
St. Paul, MN 55107
651-244-2728
Antiracism Study Dialogue Circles are intensive, in-depth study and dialogue focused on systemic, institutional, and cultural racism, and provide a guided series of readings to deepen participants' understanding of racism, capacity to identify white norms, privileges, and power structures; and foster community and antiracist consciousness and action.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Other (unspecified)
Center for Cross-Cultural Health
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated.
34 Thirteenth Avenue NE Suite B002B
Minneapolis, MN 55413
612-331-3311
Center for Cross-Cultural Health offers training and consultation around social determinants of health; community organizing and community engagement expertise; and convening around health equity issues.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial, Inc.
CJMM, Inc. Scholarship and Speaker's Bureau
Region served: Northland
Offers training and technical assistance. Offers programs that can be replicated.
P.O. Box 3631
Duluth, MN 55803-3631
218-336-2990
CJMM. Inc. has a speakers bureau that offers presentations about the history of lynching and/or current racism at the Memorial Site or other locations in the Duluth area (within 75 miles). DVDs titled "Bringing the Truth to Light: A Community Forum on Racism Today" and "Bringing the Truth to Light: Racial Equity in Education," are available for purchase.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Create CommUNITY
Learning Circles
Region served: Central
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
101 Seventh Avenue South Suite 100
St. Cloud, MN 56301
320-309-3087
Create CommUNITY Learning Circles project offers varying levels of anti-racism and intentional social interaction activities to address systemic change using an anti-racism analysis in Central Minnesota.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Other (unspecified)
Cultural Diversity Resources
Regions served: Northwest, West Central
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
303 Roberts Street
Fargo, ND 58102
701-526-3000
Cultural Diversity Resources provides customized cultural competency & diversity training, cultural presentations and an annual diversity conference. Service area is Fargo Moorhead communities in Cass County, ND and Clay County in MN.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
CultureBrokers LLC
Regions served: Southern, Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
111 Jessamine Avenue West
St. Paul, MN 55117
651-489-5215
CultureBrokers
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: Social enterprise
Dakota County Technical College
Multicultural Leadership Diploma
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
14200 Cedar Avenue
Apple Valley, MN 55124
651-423-8606
Multicultural Leadership Diploma (MLD) program aims to improve enrollment and graduation rates of student populations historically underserved and underrepresented in higher education. The proposed project embraces the challenge to enhance the professional advancement of minorities in Minnesota. DCTC has embraced diversity as one of most important priorities
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: Government
Discussions that Encounter
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
1118 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-332-5904
The goal of "Discussions that Encounter" forums, held on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, is to bring together people from all walks of life to engage in in-depth conversation about the injustices of the concept of race and racism, offering the opportunity to build new relationships.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Adults
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Diversity Council
Spark! workshops
Region served: Southern
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
1130 1/02 7th Street NW Suite #204
Rochester, MN 55901
507-282-9951
Spark! "Connecting People, Igniting Change" is a comprehensive series of age-appropriate, anti-bias workshops that focus on respecting human differences. Workshops are presented in collaboration with area public and private schools.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: Nonprofit
East Side Arts Council
Region served: Twin Cities East Metro
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Offers programs that can be replicated.
977 Payne Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55130
651-774-5422
Belonging Circles is an afterschool project that uses the arts to help students build tolerance and life skills. A guide for replicating the curriculum is available free of charge. It includes lesson plans for easy projects that promote discussions about belonging in a community and also lists characteristics of successful afterschool programs. The curriculum is intended for students in K-grade 4.
Serving: Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
EdChange
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
41 Baker Street East
St. Paul, MN 55107
703-593-9353
EdChange creates and facilitates workshops on anti-racism, cultural competence, and white privilege around the world. They work to push the conversation about "diversity" beyond "heroes and holidays" and toward a genuine examination of how racism permeates our lives and society. EdChange is an internationally recognized and national award-winning collaboration of facilitators, activists, and educators based in the Twin Cities.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: A collaborative of individual anti-racism facilitators, educators, and activists.
Employers Association
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
9805 45th Avenue North
Plymouth, MN 55442
763-253-9137
Domestic and international diversity services are led by Jeffrey Cookson, SPHR, GPHR, MFA, who works as an organizational effectiveness consultant at Employers' Association, and has 20 years of experience spanning arts and intercultural fields, an MFA in Acting and Directing, and certification as both a Senior and Global Professional in HR.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Rochester
Racial Justice Task Group
Region served: Southern
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
1727 Walden Lane SW
Rochester, MN 55902
507-282-5209
The Racial Justice Task Group, formed in 2007, is comprised of members of the Unitarian Universalist Church's congregation as well as other members of the Rochester community who are concerned with issues of racial justice. The Task Group has presented the program, "Race: The Power of an Illusion", and is developing a follow-up program to answer the question, "So, now what do I do?"
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Hamline University
Race, Gender & Beyond Faculty Development Program
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
1536 Hewitt Avenue Box 46
St. Paul, MN 55104
651-523-2257
The Race, Gender & Beyond Faculty Development Project is a resource for faculty across the university and beyond to provide support for teaching diversity in the form of pedagogical support, curriculum development, and assessment resources. The RGB Project offers individual consultations, book groups, speakers, workshops, and inclusive teaching resources. Hamline also offer graduate courses on managerial leadership and cultural competence.
Serving: Educational institutions
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
HarmonyWorks Training Institute
SKILLS in Cultural Collaborations
Regions served: Southern, Central, Southwest, Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
6 Partridge Lane
St. Paul, MN 55127
651-324-2407
Skills for Multi-Cultural Collaboration Building is an experiential, 40-hour course to engage community leaders and grassroots organizers in a skill-building approach that results in dispelling mis-information and building authentic collaborations based on trust, communications, and relationships. The course offers experiential exercises that explore 'individual' cultural conditioning, 'community' norms and influences, and 'institutional' practices. In the past few years they have mainly worked along with African immigrant and refugee organizations in building capacities, in social & economic development and as advocates.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Hispanic Health Network
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
3800 40th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-722-0796
A consulting service. The Hispanic Health Network is an alliance of organizations.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Consulting
Hmong Cultural Center, Inc.
Region served: Twin Cities East Metro
Offers training and technical assistance. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
995 University Avenue West #214
St. Paul, MN 55014
651-917-9937
Hmong Cultural Center provides a Hmong 101 presentation that presents information related to the Hmong community to diverse communities that want to know more about the Hmong community and history. Hmong Cultural Center provides Adult Basic English to refugees and immigrant communities, youth after school programs, and also has the resource center community or students to teach Hmong.
Serving: Adults
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
In Care of The Office of the Chancellor, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Higher Education Anti-Racism Team (HEART)
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
30 7th Street East Suite 350
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-201-1593
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: Other (unspecified)
Interculturalist
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
612-282-8939
Interculturalist helps individuals and organizations develop intercultural leadership skills so that they are more prepared to work with cultural and racial diversity around them and in society.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: For Profit
ISAIAH
Regions served: Central, Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
2720 East 22nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-333-1260
ISAIAH has 100 member congregations in the Metropolitan Area and St. Cloud. They are white, Latino and African-American people working to build the cross-cultural, cross-racial relationships necessary to truly link across the city, suburbs and Greater Minnesota for an agenda of racial and economic justice for the State of Minnesota.
Serving: Faith communities, Adults
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Jewish Community Action
Racial Justice
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
2375 University Avenue West Suite 150
St. Paul, MN 55114
651-632-2184
Community Education: JCA offers workshops, training, classes, and programs to the Jewish community to increase understanding and to take action on racial justice, white privilege, dual identity, and anti-racism.
Serving: Faith communities, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Jewish Community Relations Council
Tolerance Minnesota
Regions served: Southwest, Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
12 North 12th Street Suite 480
Minneapolis, MN 55403
612-338-7816
Tolerance Minnesota strives to create a more tolerant and just society by promoting understanding of all cultures and reducing prejudiced and hurtful behavior. Programs include The Color Project, Art residencies, and a Hip Hop workshop about Race in America. They offer Council of Advisor partnerships, Close the Gap trainings, race trainings, Holocaust education through new documentaries and teacher resources, and have a speakers bureau. Tolerance Minnesota has partnering school districts throughout Greater Minnesota to bring some of the trainings to these areas, and lead a SEED program in Willmar.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Jones! Consulting
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Offers programs that can be replicated.
5414 Picha Road
Minnetonka, MN 55345
952-404-1199
Jones! Consulting provides theater and training programs that focus on diversity, inclusion and workforce integration. They create specialized and tailored programs for organizations that teach stakeholders the importance of engineering social change that is linked to mission, vision and values.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: For Profit
Marnita's Table, Inc.
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
2136 Penn Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55405
612-928-7744
Marnita's Table LITERALLY "brings people to the table" for food and interaction to find solutions. Using their Intentional Social Interaction model, Marnita's Table aims to break down the barriers of race, class and culture in order to build authentic, positive and productive relationships by bringing people of all ages, ethnicities and background together for the common good.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Mixed Blood Theatre Company
EnterTRaining
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
1501 South Fourth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-338-2155
Mixed Blood's EnterTRaining program uses customized theatrical productions to address differences in the workplace. Tailor-made shows are created for each client and its inclusion initiatives. The theater programs are written for each organization and produced by Mixed Blood Theater company. But they go beyond theater. They create follow up training programs that focus on behavioral change in individuals.
Serving: Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Native Vote Alliance of Minnesota
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated.
15542 State 371 Northwest
Cass Lake, MN 56633
218-335-8581 x39
The Native Vote Alliance of MN is working collaboratively with a group called Shared Visions to build bridges between non-Natives and the Native American Community. Native Vote is also participating with Cass County to be included in the election judge committee of 2010, and will host the first annual youth civic camp this summer - a week long program to make sure our youth can see the potential they have in organizing at a community level. Youth learn there's a true history of Ojibwa, Lakota and Dakota people here that's not taught in schools. Native Vote is also working with Honor the Earth, which will involve a 2 day field trip to find out what our options are in renewable energy.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Neighborhood House
Cultural Proficiency Workshops
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships.
179 Robie Street East
St. Paul, MN 55107
651-789-2514
Cultural Porficiency Workshops offer introductions to Hmong, Somali and Latino cultures. Sessions last between one and three hours per culture. Average audience size is 25. Workshops can be held on site or at Neighborhood House.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
One Ummah Consulting
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
254 Rice Creek Boulevard
Fridley, MN 55432
612-599-6716
One Ummah is a team of consultants, trainers and consultants who have come together from a broad range of fields to assist organizations in building their multicultural competence. With over 50 years of combined experience, they offer innovative solutions, comprehensive strategies, and a wide range of services to help organizations move from awareness to action in creating more inclusive and productive work and learning environments.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: For Profit
Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Fosters community action. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated.
2525 Franklin Ave E, Suite 301
Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-746-4224
OAP advances racial, cultural, social and economic justice in Minnesota by providing training, working with organizations, and through research and policy analysis. OAP creates the Annual Legislative Report Card of Racial Equity and helps create organizing spaces that are purposefully multiracial to help share and build strategies of racial equity. OAP focuses on institutional and structural racism.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Pacific Educational Group
Beyond Diversity: Courageous Conversations About Race & Educational Disparities
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated.
2124 Dupont Avenue South Suite G2
Minneapolis, MN 55405
612-871-6754
Pacific Educational Group is dedicated to helping school districts address racial educational disparities intentionally, explicitly, and comprehensively. PEG works in partnership with school districts to heighten awareness of institutional racism and develop effective strategies for ending racial achievement disparities through individualized, comprehensive support, training, and coaching. Our partner districts are beginning to see significant achievement gains for their students of color.
Serving: Educational institutions, Adults
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: For Profit
Pangea World Theater
Diverse Stages Educational Program Breaking the Silence Program
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
711 West Lake Street Suite 101
Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-822-0015
Diverse Stages Educational Program works with diverse high school youth to create original performances based on race and equity. The Breaking The Silence program is targeted toward government institutions to illuminate the barriers battered immigrant women face in the system. Pangea conducts custom designed workshops, often for immigrant groups, around issues of racism, gender inequity, cultural competence, human rights and social justice.
Serving: Civic organizations, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
People's Institute North
Regions served: Northland, Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
1834 Vermilion Road
Duluth, MN 55803
218-310-2575
"Undoing Racism/Community Organizing," a two and-a-half day workshop, offers individualized training on white privilege, internalized racial oppression, white organizational culture, history of how people became white in the United States. Youth (age 13-19) workshops are also offered. Organizing efforts are based in the communities where trainers/organizers live: Grand Portage, Duluth and Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Pillsbury House Theatre
Breaking Ice
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
3501 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-825-0459
Breaking Ice is a customized professional theater experience created for organizations and businesses that need help with difficult issues, both interpersonal and institutional. Since 1996, Breaking Ice has been helping organizations to open conversations on racism and equality. In 2008, Breaking Ice traveled to Biloxi to help develop a dialogue on diversity following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Breaking Ice also received the 2008 Nonprofit Mission Award for Anti-Racism Initiatives.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Saint Paul Public Schools
Multicultural Resource Center
Region served: Twin Cities East Metro
Offers training and technical assistance.
1495 Rice Street (Arlington HS)
St. Paul, MN 55117
651-487-7335
The Multicultural Resource Center is a lending library that provide professional and student resources (artifacts, books, films, curriculum materials, learning trunks) to support the cultural proficiency journey of staff and students in Saint Paul Public Schools and the East Metro Integration District member districts. We also offer free professional development opportunities around anti-racism and cultural proficiency for staff who work in these districts.
Serving: Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Government
Science Museum of Minnesota
RACE: Are We So Different: A National Traveling Exhibition and Program Cluster
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships.
120 Kellogg Boulevard West
St. Paul, MN 55102
651-221-4745
The exhibition, "RACE: Are We So Different", premiered at the Science Museum in 2007. A tour of the exhibition will appear at over 30 museums and cultural venues in the United States. Museum staff consult on developing programs around the exhibit and on the science behind race.
Serving:
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
Side by Side Associates, Partners In Community Building
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism.
127 West Delos
St. Paul, MN 55107
651-335-4507 or 651-398-9319
Side by Side Associates work with organizations to develop and implement training and organizational change initiatives aimed at building inclusive and equitable organizations and communities. They bring two complementary perspectives: an intercultural development approach, and a commitment to recognizing the role played by power, marginalization and privilege. We also convene a community of practice to share resources, tools and best practices in anti-racism and cultural competence.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: Nonprofit
St. Olaf Catholic Church
Racial Justice Committee
Region served: Twin Cities West Metro
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated. Offers opportunities for an individual or organization to join.
215 South 8th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-332-7471
The Racial Justice Committee (formerly the Anti-racism Steering Committee) works in conjunction with the Parish Social Justice Commission to be a visible presence for racial justice in the congregation and to provide events and opportunities intended to raise awareness about racism and to encourage parishioners on the journey of spiritual conversion toward equality for all. Offers videos, book reviews, bulletin articles, retreats and discussions.
Serving: Faith communities, Adults
Fee for service: No
Type of organization: Nonprofit
St. Paul Area Council of Churches
Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI)
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Changes policies to reduce institutional racism. Offers programs that can be replicated.
1671 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
651-789-3864
MCARI provides anti-racism consultation & training for nonprofit institutions, government, business and community organizations, and institutions of higher education. MCARI assists institutions to develop the capacity to address racism as a systemic issue by training internal leadership with an analysis of racism that is relevant to community and systemic transformation. MCARI offers introductory & comprehensive workshops on the systemic institutionalized dynamics of racism with dismantling strategies.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
The St. Paul Foundation
Facing Race We're All in this Together
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance.
55 Fifth Street East Suite 600
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-325-4270
Facing Race is a multi-year initiative that focuses on addressing racism at the individual and institutional levels and provides meaningful recognition for those involved in the work. "New Conversations About Race and Racism" and "New Conversations About White Privilege" dialogues engage community members around this tough issue. The Foundation offers sessions that are open to the general public, facilitation assistance to organizations, and train-the-trainer courses for facilitators. Facilitation services are provided in the East Metro free of charge.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Leadership Toward Racial Justice
Region served: Statewide
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships.
3000 Fifth Street NW
New Brighton, MN 55112
651-633-4311
"Leadership Toward Racial Justice" is offered as a concentration in Master of Divinity and Master of Arts degrees as well as a certificate (5 course). This training provides clergy and lay leaders of faith communities the knowledge, understanding, and skills to facilitate anti-racism transformation in congregational or other settings. As ecumenical seminary of the United Church of Christ, United Theological Seminary is a graduate school preparing leaders for church and society.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Educational institutions, Adults
Fee for service: Yes
Type of organization: Nonprofit
YWCA of Minneapolis
Racial Justice and Public Policy Department
Region served: Twin Cities
Offers training and technical assistance. Brings diverse groups together to solve problems and build relationships. Offers programs that can be replicated.
1130 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403
612-215-4120
The Racial Justice and Public Policy Department offers workshops, community dialogues, and events to raise awareness of white privilege and promote healing and understanding as a way to eliminate barriers that perpetuate racism.
Serving: Faith communities, Civic organizations, Workplaces, Educational institutions, Adults, Youth
Fee for service: Sliding-scale
Type of organization: Nonprofit
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