Partners for a Racism-Free Community

12/10/2020

https://www.facebook.com/127328787476/posts/10157498017142477/?d=n

Partners for a Racism-Free Community hands the baton to WMCAT.

08/12/2020

More on how the work of PRFC will continue to live on!

We talk about the anti-racism work in our community, despite the closing of the local 501C3 Partners for a Racism-Free Community. All intellectual property

08/05/2020

For those of you who have been wondering how the work of PRFC will continue on!

Partners for a Racism-Free Community closed its doors after a decade and is giving its intellectual property assets to the West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology.

07/03/2020

https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/registervoter

07/02/2020

Our Grand Rapids Chapter of A. Philip Randolph Institute will be hosting a virtual town hall meeting. " An Awkward Conversation: Racism in the Labor Movement," on Monday, July 6th at 7:00pm EST/6:00pm CST/4:00pm PST. Please distribute and share this flyer and participation link to the members of your APRI chapters via email social media outlets and email blasts.

Click https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86874228486?pwd=OVhsQ3RxOVZNRC9jbSttNFVwKy9JZz09 to join. https://mailchi.mp/d1a6df106cbe/an-awkward-conversation-racism-in-the-labor-movement?e=31b4947b1a

06/29/2020

https://www.whenweallvote.org

Join When We All Vote to make sure every eligible voter is registered and ready to vote in every election.

06/26/2020

Spewing carbon monoxide across L.A. on the freeway system feeds into a pot of racism and segregation that’s been stewing for nearly a century.

06/26/2020

#5 - Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI: black residents in this area earn less than half the income of whites. Four times as many blacks than whites also live in poverty. In addition, in this area where only 6.5 percent of residents are black, black Michigan residents are still nearly six times more likely than their white peers to go to jail or prison

Top ten cities in the United States tha are considered the worst in the nation for Black Americans.

06/23/2020

Action item: Call Adam Ellenbaas office at tel:616-892-3110.

A group has called for the removal of the controversial Civil War statue in Ottawa County.

06/21/2020

Day 6 (Scroll to Day 1 for context)

If you’ve been reading these postings for the past 6 days and have engaged in dialog or have begun to conduct an assessment of your organization, you are on your way to having a roadmap to begin your journey of becoming a racism-free organization. The last step is to create measurements and track results. This means you will continue to revisit and make improvement within each standard on a regular basis.

• Create one appropriate measure or success indicator for each of the
categories
• Create a corrective action plans for those measures and track progress

It’s important to take meeting minutes and revisit them at all of your meetings while engaging in this process. Treat this process in the same way you would any staff, board or planning meeting in your organization. Don’t wait until everyone is on board. Just begin taking the steps!

© Partners for a Racism Free Community 2009

06/20/2020

Day 5 (Scroll to Day 1 for context)

Today let’s look at client, congregation, customer, and/or marketplace practices. Use these questions to spark dialog, conduct an assessment of your organization, or create a plan of action.

• Are public statements and constituent practices align with internal
racism-free behaviors and expectations?
• Is your constituent base encouraged and actively developed to be
racism-free (e.g. racism-free seminars offered to clients, congregants,
consumers, members, patrons, and students)?

If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, is there documentation / evidence? Is it easily accessible to everyone?

If the answer is “no” to any of these questions, what are the barriers and how could these barriers be removed?

© Partners for a Racism Free Community 2009