Potential Community Partners and Local / National Contacts

In building your list of potential community partners, consider inviting:

• Policy Makers:
  • State-level legislators, policy officers, higher education coordination committees, and other elected officials
• Volunteer Org:
  • YWCA, League of Women Voters, Rotary Club, etc.
• Businesses:
  • Community development councils, local businesses, Chambers of Commerce
• Professional Assoc:
  • State and loca chapters of minorty and women's professional associations
• Philanthropy:
  • Community Foundations
• Arts:
  • State and local arts and humanities councils
• Religion:
  • Campus relgious representatives, education and racial injustice committees of state and local ecumenical councils, leaders of active local congregations or religious groups
• Labor:
  • Union leaders, local labor movement activists
• Law Enforcement:
  • Local police chiefs or officers
• Other:
  • State or local officials or staff members who deal with diversity
  • Leadership of locally-based community organizations intersted in diversity issues, higher education and/or issues of racial justice
  • Local civil rights initiatives
  • Local minority-owned businesses; staff members of commerce departments or businesses that handle diversity issues in an unofficial capacity
  • Reporters with an interest in diversity issues at state or local cable stations, television and radio affiliates, and newspapers
  • Members of local foundations or trusts