Diversity Partners
The following groups participated in the first meeting of the Diversity Provider's Council of Greater Cleveland:
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio (ACLU)
www.acluohio.org
Mission: to aid in maintaining and extending constitutional and other fundamental rights, liberties, privileges, and immunities, and to take all legitimate action in furtherance of that opbject without political partisanship
American Jewish Committee
www.ajc.org
Mission: To protect the rights of Jews worldwide; combat anti-Semitism; work for the security of Israel; enhance human rights for all people; promote democratic pluralism and inter-group understanding; support the creative vitality of the Jewish People
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
www.adl.org
Mission: To ensure fair treatment and justice for all through education, advocacy and training.
B.R.I.D.G.E.S. (Building Racial Interaction through
Dialogue, Growth and Education Solutions)
Email: juno5866@aol.com
Mission: To build racial interaction in our community through dialogue, growth, educaitonal solutions; to foster positive transformation with the community; to actively encourage one to promote the value of diversity, dignity and the inherent worth of everyone in the City of Euclid
Cleveland Council on World Affairs
www.ccwa.org
Mission: Founded in 1923 to promote world peace, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs provides the public with greater understanding and personal engagement in international relations and global issues through a public lecture series, school programs, International Visitors, Young Professionals programs
Council of International Programs
www.cipusa.org/
Mission: The Council of International Programs USA is committed to promoting international understanding among global communities through professional development and cross-cultural exchange.
The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio
Mission: To fight bias, bigotry, and racism in America by advancing diversity, challenging assumptions and advocating for understanding through education and training. Unlike other organizations that combat these problems, The Diversity Center is not affiliated with any particular cultural or religious groups that may have their specific concerns or agenda. This allows The Diversitiy Center to reach out equally to all people, involve groups that otherwise might remain in isolation, and facilitate solutions to complex issues.
Facing History and Ourselves
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Mission: to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and atntisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed cintizenry.
Global Issues Resource Center
www.global-issues.org/
Mission: The Global Issues Resource Center fosters citizen responsibility through cultivation of a global perspective on critical issues affecting our planet and its people. The Center's special focus is on sources and management of conflict; the ongoing threats to global security; environmental dilemmas; and issues of diversity and multicultural understanding.
Greater Cleveland Partnership
www.clevelandgrowth.com/
Heights Community Congress
www.heightscongress.org
Mission: To advocate social justice, monitor fair housing and facilitate community building
Interact Cleveland
http://www.interactcleveland.org/
Mission: To be a catalyst for creating an interreligious community through which members put faith into action working for social justice through dialogue, service and advocacy.
International Community Council
http://www.internationalcommunitycouncil.org/
Mission: To bring together the diverse cultural communities in Northeast Ohio to increase cultural awareness and understanding, provide a forum for members to address issues of common interest, contribute to the realization of the region’s global aspirations, and preserve its rich multi-national cultural heritage.
Project Love
www.projectlove.org
Mission: To promote kindness, caring and mutual respect among, for and through our children. To achieve this, we offer character education and leadership training seminars, curricular programming, community-wide recognition events and our TV series Principles to pre-teens and teens throughout Northeast Ohio.
SAY-Social Advocates for Youth
www.bellefairejcb.org
SAY programming addresses behavioral health issues; substance abuse prevention and treatment; violence prevention and treatment; social skills developmnet; resilience; child welfare; abuse and neglect; parent education for universal and special populations; school climate; risk and protective factors for youth; youth development; professional development
Youth4Youth
www.youth4youth.org
Mission: To create a safe and positive educational environment. The goal is to change the school climate by helping each school building become an environment of support, respect, and safety for all, regardless of intellect, physical barriers and limitations, race, religious, social, or economic issues.
Student Group on Race Relations (SGORR)
Email: Jaffe_m@shaker.org
To work with elementary grade students (4th and 6th grades) to help make them aware of the dynamics involved in making friendships--to alert them to stereotyping, and the advantages in deferring judgment and the role that peer pressure and self concept play in the friendship process. Our aim is to create awareness of how to make and keep friends in the hopes that the diversity of the friendships made in elementary school might prevail as the students move into the secondary experience.
To find out more about the Diversity Provider's Council of Greater Cleveland, or get information about joining, contact Sharon Schmelzer at 216-752-3000 or sschmelzer@nccjneo.org
