The Center for Social Inclusion

02/14/2018

As many of you know, we underwent a merger with Race Forward in 2017 to combine our strategies. As part of our ongoing integration, we want to know your thoughts about our programs, our merger, and the racial justice landscape! Take our short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018_RaceForward_BrandAwareness-F
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08/10/2017

CSI has united with Race Forward as one organization. Please follow us at Race Forward for updates about our combined work. We will be discontinuing updates on this page.

08/01/2017

As the journey to the Supreme Court begins for the so-called Muslim bans, how do we prepare? How do we practice solidarity? Find out how a multiracial coalition of people successfully passed an ordinance to fight registries and how people continue to unite to protect immigrants and refugees.Listen to the July episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast. Our Senior Fellow Deepa Iyer talks with Ramla Sahid, Executive Director of Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans - PANA and Elica Vafaie of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus
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07/11/2017

LGBTQ People of Color in the nonprofit sector face the dual effects of their race and sexuality on their career advancement. However, race was the most significant dimension impacting the opportunity to advance into leadership roles. Read the rest of the findings from Building Movement Project's Race to Lead Report exploring the racial leadership gap in the nonprofit sector. http://racetolead.org/lgbtq.html

The percentage of people of color in nonprofit executive director roles has remained under 20% for the past decade. To increase the number of people of color leading nonprofits, the sector needs a new narrative about the problem and new strategies to address it.

06/29/2017

"A central insistence of antiracist thought over the past several decades is that, as with any social category produced by regimes of power, you don’t choose race, power chooses it for you; it names you. This is why all the well-meaning identification in the world does not make a White person Black. Likewise, as much as I draw inspiration from the Jewish community, and as much as I adore my Jewish partner and friends, it was my organizing against antisemitism as a Black antiracist that first pulled me to the Jewish community, not the other way around. I developed an analysis of antisemitism because I wanted to smash White supremacy; because I wanted to be free" .
- Eric Ward in his latest essay "Skin in the Game" the for Political Research Associates blog

A long time civil rights strategist, Eric Ward is currently a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has worked extensively in community, regional, and national organizing, as well as in philanthropy. From 2011-2017, Eric served as a Ford Foundation Program Officer for Gender, Racial,…

06/29/2017

CSI Senior Fellow Deepa Iyer launches a new podcast: "Solidarity is This" along with a Solidarity Syllabus which you can find at www.solidarityis.org

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