Racial Equity Tools

The Racial Equity Tools Web site provides assistance to people and groups across sectors and at all levels in promoting inclusion, racial equity, and social justice. Jointly developed by The Center for Assessment and Policy Development (CAPD) and MP Associates, the site includes more than 400 resources and links to help people understand, talk about and act intentionally and effectively to advance racial equity. There are also tips, reflection questions, and a glossary of important terms. Content is organized into four main sections: Essential Concepts and Issues, Assessing and Learning, Planning and Implementing, and Sustaining and Refining. 

Parent Institute for Quality Education and California State University
PIQE is a parent-training program which strives to create a community where parents and teachers collaborate to transform each child's educational environment, both at home and at school, so that all children can achieve their academic potential. PIQUE empowers parents though a series of involvement training workshops that address issues affecting student low-achievement and social conditions in K-12 schools. PIQE and California State University (CSU) have joined together to create a campus/community partnership that enhance the parent training programs and initiatives to include information on higher education; facilitation to enhance partnerships between community, parents, schools, and CSU; support for social development of students; and encourage college participation.

Cultivating Interdependence: A Guide for Race Relations and Racial Justice Organizations by Maggie Potapchuk

Throughout the country, grassroots organizations are at work in communities large and small promoting racial justice and improved race relations. While their broad aims are often the same, many of these groups differ in their philosophies and employ widely differing methodologies. Too often, these groups avoid collaboration, foregoing the advantages it would bring because they are unable to see beyond their particular perspectives. Released by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Cultivating Interdependence is a guide for changing that dynamic. It builds on the anti-racist and related concepts outlined in Holding Up the Mirror, its predecessor volume. The guide also incorporates practical insights gleaned from the many community groups that attended the Joint Center’s four how-to forums (directed by the NABRE program), and offers specific recommendations on working with grantmakers. Includes worksheet and handout material that is easily reproducible.

American Psychological Association Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs
The APA Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs seeks to promote scientific understanding of the influences of culture and ethnicity on behavior; encourage increased public knowledge of the special psychological resources and mental health needs of communities of color; and increase the number and participation of ethnic minority psychologists in the discipline and profession.

Renewing Democracy Through Interracial/Multicultural Community Building

Created by the Claremont Graduate University's Institute for Democratic Renewal and directed by Dr. John D. Maguire, this project produces materials and fosters activities to support the kinds of interracial, multicultural community building that renews democracy. The web site contains a practical Tool Kit that describes how to establish and sustain racial, cultural, cooperative activity, resulting from in-depth field work and lessons learned through the process of selecting "best practices sites" from information obtained from The President's Initiative on Race, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation; and The National Conference for Community and Justice.