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The Rice Foundation Grants.
The Rice Foundation awarded several grants focusing on Goal
3 of the Foundation: to eliminate intolerance,
discrimination and prejudice from our society. This goal was
met with grants to Reading to End Racism, The Hate Crimes Initiative,
Know Your Rights project, and Organizing for Racial Justice. Recent
events certainly emphasize the importance and timeliness of this goal.
A grant to Project Self-Sufficiency addresses Goal 1 of helping families,
single parents, and children become self-sufficient contributing members
of society through education and training. Scholarships to Metro State
College also address this goal.
We believe these grants not only address the goals of the Rice's,
but have great potential for replication in other communities. The
educational component in each can assure the involvement of many individuals,
organizations, and agencies in working on the goal. A brief description
of each of the grants follows.
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The Center for Diverse Communities -
Reading to End Racism is a Project for the
Boulder Valley School District and supports the District's goal of
promoting and valuing diversity. It provides forums for students to
explain and explore institutional racism. Volunteer mentors/facilitators
of many ages assist students to develop their own mechanisms for creating
lasting, positive attitudes toward all races. Non-minority students
are encouraged to become active allies of minority students by recognizing
racist behavior in others, confronting these behaviors in non-aggressive
ways and by developing anti-racist strategies. The power of literature
and the importance of reading are stressed in this positive effort.
The Program provides written materials and training for volunteers.
Contact Person: Naomi Harris,
Reading to End Racism Council Member |
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The Anti-Violence Program of the Colorado
Nonprofit Development Center -
The Hate Crimes Initiative seeks to eliminate
violence and hate crimes against the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, and
Transgender Community because of sexual orientation, race, and/or
age. The Initiative assigns trained advocates to work with youth and
the Latino/a community, provides training sessions on cultural competency/hate
crimes for agencies and providers of services to victims, provides
training for agencies and schools who serve youth, and develops print
materials on hate crimes and other resources specific to youth and
the Latino/a communities. The Initiative is developing a 3 to 5 year
plan to assist victims of hate crimes in population specific communities.
Contact Person: Denise de Percin,
Director |
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Community Action Development Corporation/
Community Action Programs -
The Know Your Rights Project is a collaborative
effort to empower and advocate for immigrants in Boulder County. The
Project conducts workshops to give immigrants a real understanding
of their rights and the ways current immigrant law affects them. Know
Your Rights workshops are also given for service providers, employers
and governmental employees in order to promote equal opportunities
and quality of life for all immigrants. The Project provides opportunities
to educate the community at large regarding immigrants' rights.
Contact Person: Janet Heimer,
Executive Director |
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Colorado
Progressive Coalition -
Organizing for Racial Justice supports the
mission of the CPC to achieve progressive social and systemic change
and an end to racial, economic, and other forms of discrimination
in our society. This Project supports the work of neighborhood organizers
to end racial profiling through working together in community efforts
with both individuals and agencies. It involves young people in
the CPC's award winning multiracial leadership training program
to improve schools and the quality of education, Students 4 Justice.
Support is also given to the efforts of the Multiracial Organizing
Project, Building an Organization That Looks Like the World We Wish
to Create. This committee develops curriculum for anti-racist training.
Contact persons: Bill Vandenberg and Soyun Park
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Boulder
County Housing Authority, Inc. -
Project
Self-Sufficiency assists low-income parents to obtain the education,
job training and life skills necessary to move towards financial
self-sufficiency. Through collaborative partnerships, PSS helps
participants meet basic housing and childcare needs, set education
and career goals, obtain job training and tuition assistance and
develop personal and professional life skills.
Contact
Person: Susanne Roser,
Director
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Metropolitan
State College Foundation, Inc.-
The
Metropolitan State College of Denver Pacesetter Scholarship Program
is designed specifically to help high-risk, economically disadvantaged,
leadership youth complete a college degree. A Pacesetter scholar
is often a first-generation college student whose family doesn't
have a tradition of pursuing education. All are students filled
with academic potential, courage and determination, but who cannot
attend college without substancial financial help and cannot persist
without individualized student support systems.
Contact
Person: Mary Konrad Feller,
Assistant Vice President
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