Resources

Materials and information you can use in the fight against bias, bigotry and racism and promoting understanding and respect among all people!

Dialogue and Deliberation Links - The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) brings together people and groups who actively practice, promote and study inclusive, high quality conversations. NCDD is a vibrant network of over 700 organizations and individuals who, collectively, regularly engage and mobilize hundreds of thousands of people around today's critical issues, and NCDD's resource-rich website is a popular hub for dialogue & deliberation leaders.

Healthcare Disparities: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: A Public Opinion Update is new research conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates for NCCJ and Aetna. Also, included in this section is a link to Unequal Treatement: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, a report of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

NCCJ Interfaith Calendar is available for order from our Chicago Regional Office. Call 800.311.9823 or email: chicago@nccj.org - this award-winning calendar is a powerful education tool for classroom, home, or office. Cost is $18.00 plus shipping.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Toolkit is a resource to plan a celebration of the King holiday that will help people to take a "Day ON" rather than a "day off" in the work of building inclusive community!

Download a Copy of FOCUS - St. Louis Report on Racial Equality: Racial Equality in the St. Louis Region, a major report on the impact of race in the domains of housing, economic development and education can be downloaded on this website or go to the Focus-St. Louis website for further information.

Leadership As A Way of Being is a monograph by Ambassador James A. Joseph, former national board chair of The National Conference for Community and Justice. This commentary on leadeship will inspire you and inform your leadership efforts.

Graduates of NCCJSTL's programming have created outstanding programs to continue the process of developing strong leadership for social justice advocacy. The Teaching and Leading for Social Justice Advocacy program is one such program. This training process has been developed and is supervised by Dr. Peter Wilson. For further information on this program, check out this pdf: TLSJA

Public Prayer In A Diverse Society provides helpful guidelines to individuals who are asked to lead prayer on civic occasions.

Agreements for Being in Community includes the elements of successful dialogue and provides facilitators with a framework for promoting constructive conversation.

The Top 5 Things You Can Do to fight bias, bigotry and racism and promote understanding and build more inclusive community.

Education Equity: The following urls provide information on education equity issues. NCCJ staff will update them from time to time. If a url is no longer active, please contact our office: 314.241.5103 x11.

How to Stand With Those Targeted By Hate was written shortly after 9-11, and can be helpful in the work of becoming allies to communities and individuals targeted by hate crimes.

Inclusion Bill of Rights moves beyond celebrating diversity to a description of the work of building an inclusive community for all people.

Cultural Leadership is a program that looks at the Jewish and African American experience.

Policy Link: Equitable Development. PolicyLink underscores the regional equity movement’s essential integration of place-based and people-based policy advocacy. Too often, smart growth focuses only on the where; equitable development is about who receives the benefits and burdens of development as well as where development happens.

Race and Racism and the Law: Law Reviews on Race is a searchable database of law review articles on race, health and other topics of interest to the anti-racism activist. The database is updated weekly. The search mechanism is crude in that it searches based on predetermined keyword assignments. So be flexible. The articles in the database can be obtained at any law school library or through interlibrary loan from your local library.

DiversityInc.com: DiversityInc publishes both DiversityInc, the magazine and DiversityInc.com. DiversityInc.com is a premier source of original, managerial-level information on the business benefits of diversity. DiversityInc.com publishes original content every business day. The site has over 200,000 registered users and sends a free e-mail newsletter to over 88,000 people, six days per week. Although the original content is only available to paying subscribers, diversity news briefs, published under license from the Associated Press, the Career Center and the Diversity Resource Guide are available for free.

Links to Partner and Informational Sites will take you to a listing of websites of NCCJ's partner organizations.