On June 6, 2019 a dozen Hartford-area residents gathered for a Tour and Talkback at the CT Historical Society to reflect on the Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow exhibit and the many related challenges we still face today.
Our intergenerational equity framework provides a definition and five principles needed for building intergenerational equity in your community work.
This guide for brief 2-hour community discussions was developed by Everyday Democracy for 2019's Stand Against Racism Day.
On April 26, 2019, Everyday Democracy hosted its 7th Stand Against Racism Day event in partnership with the YWCA of Greater Hartford. Entitled No Hate, No Fear: Immigrant Justice is Racial Justice, the event brought together Everyday Democracy staff members as well as representatives of some of the nonprofit organizations that are also part of the CT Nonprofit Alliance to address shared concerns about the racist, divisive, and hateful narrative that we hear almost every day about immigration and the so-called “crisis at the border.”
Mayme Webb Bledsoe of the Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership Uses Dialogue to Lift Voices in the Duke / Durham Community
Everyday Democracy hosted a community dialogue 4/26/19 on immigrant and refugee justice as part of the 2019 YWCA’s STAND Against Racism Day. Here is a glimpse of the event where participants engaged and learned from each other
through a dialogue, breaking down the assumptions and messages we hear about immigrants and refugees.
For more than 25 years, Everyday Democracy has worked with communities across the country to foster a healthy and vibrant democracy – one that is characterized by strong relationships across divides, racial equity, and widespread leadership and voice. Here are snapshots of just four of the hundreds of communities that have been positively transformed through their Dialogue to Change efforts.
For more than 25 years, Everyday Democracy has worked with communities across the country to foster a healthy and vibrant democracy – characterized by strong relationships across divides, leadership development, including the voices of all people, and understanding and addressing structural racism. In 2017, the organization launched the Paul and Joyce Aicher Award Competition for Leaders in Democracy to raise the visibility of people and organizations who are supporting this work and Generation Justice of Albuquerque, New Mexico was the first recipient of the award. Awardees receive $10,000 to further their mission.
In 2018, this distinguished award, went to Beth Broadway, President/CEO of InterFaith Works of Central New York. Beth’s winning nomination was selected from 67 nominations of both individuals and organizations, in this second annual national contest. New this year, was a "Runner Up" category which went to Mayme Webb-Bledsoe of Duke / Durham, North Carolina, who received $2,500.
Learn more about Beth and Mayme's work, as well as the accomplishments of the award finalists, honorable mentions and promising practices.
There are many people who don’t realize that we have yet to achieve a society where everyone has equal opportunities, and that we’re still dealing with the affects slavery and Jim Crow. That’s why it’s so important for our children to learn about this history, to see examples of people who fought for equal rights, and to understand how that history impacts us today.
People from all backgrounds and geographic areas, nonprofits, government agencies, community based organizations and educational institutions – came together for a week to explore what it means to be a leader in the 21st Century. Everyday Democracy’s first Institute for Community Change Leaders was held in December 2018, in Southbury, Connecticut. Forty-seven community leaders were selected from 15 states through a competitive application process.
Our ultimate goal is to create positive community change that includes everyone, and we believe that our tools, advice, and resources will help foster that kind of change. Whether you’re grappling with a divisive community issue, or simply want to include residents’ voices in city government, Everyday Democracy's Dialogue to Change process, using a racial equity lens, can help.
