Sponsored by the Alliance – Advancing Community Development by Confronting Racism

Date:  April 29, 2011
Time:  9:00 – 11:30am
Location:  Boston Private Bank; Ten Post Office Square, Boston 02109

The Alliance invites you to take a Stand Against Racism
Join them for a DVD Viewing and discussion of
“Race the Power of an illusion: The House We Live In”

RACE The Power of an Illusion is a provocative series that questions the  very idea of race as biology. The series provides an eye‐opening discussion tool to help people examine their beliefs about race, privilege, policy, and justice.

“The House We Live In”(Episode III) –focuses not on individual behaviorsand attitudes, but on how our institutionsshape and create race, giving different groups vastly unequal life chances. Whodefines race? In the early 20th century, thecourts were called upon to determine who was white by employing contradictory logic to maintain the color line. The episode revealssome of the ordinary social institutionsthat quietly channel wealth and opportunity,so that white people benefit from a racist system without personally being racist. It concludes by looking at why we can’t just get rid of race.

Registration to alliance@macdc.org by April 22nd, Required
For more information about The Alliance or The Stand Against Racism event, contact Shirronda Almeida @ 617.426.0303

Online Registration

Exploring the Reputation and the Reality of Race Relations in Our City

Date:  Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Time:  8:30 – 10:30am
Location:  The Boston Foundation (75 Arlington Street, 10th Floor, Boston, MA)

Known as the “Mecca” and intellectual center for African Americans in the 19th century, today Boston has a mixed record on race relations, with a low point during court-ordered desegregation of the Boston Public Schools in the early 1970′s.  Please join the Boston Foundation for the first in a series of forums presented in conjunction with Commonwealth Compact, the Museum of Science and the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts on the occasion of the Museum of Science exhibit opening this month called Race: Are We So Different?

RSVP by January 24, 2011 to rsvp@tbf.org
Please enter “Race Forum” in the subject line of the e-mail

Provided by Realize Resources

Date: April 1, 2010
Time: 9:00am – 4:30pm
Location: 25 West Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Through interactive, thought-provoking experiences, this training offers participants the opportunity to develop increased understanding of cultural influences, assumptions and perceptions that may impact the effective delivery of services to diverse client populations.

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe how cultural, personal and work experiences influence assumptions and perceptions;

• Apply a cultural competency framework to their agencies and practices to assess service delivery

• Utilize strategies for initiating and engaging in challenging conversations about cultural competency

The cost of the training is $195 and includes breakfast and lunch, as well as training materials. 6 social work CEUs are available.

Additional Information
Registration

Friday, October 15, 2010

Immigrant Workers and Students and the American Dream
Speaker: Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Labor Center; Carlos Amador, UCLA graduate student
Time: 12:00pm–2:00pm
Location: 32-141
Urban Studies and Planning Departmental Speaker Series

The debate on immigration has intensified nationally, including state legislation in Arizona and the recent debate on the DREAM Act in the U.S. Senate. This lecture will focus on the role of immigrant workers in revitalizing the American labor movement, and the emerging immigrant youth movement to pass the DREAM Act. Kent Wong is the director of the UCLA Labor Center and a labor attorney who has worked as a scholar and activist with immigrant workers and undocumented students. He will be joined by Carlos Amador, a UCLA graduate student and DREAM Act advocate.

Friday, October 22, 2010

“Inequality in Historical Perspective” (Special Gateway Lectures: Addressing Inequalities)
Speaker: Emma Rothschild, Professor, History, Harvard University
Time: 12:00p–2:00p
Location: 32-141
Urban Studies and Planning Departmental Speaker Series

Emma Rothschild is the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University and Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics. Her most recent book, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2011. Recent publications include “The Archives of Universal History” (Journal of World History, September 2008), “A Horrible Tragedy in the French Atlantic” (Past and Present, August 2006), and Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2001). She is also currently involved in a collaborative research project, at the University of Cambridge and at Harvard on “Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas.”

Professor Rothschild studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, and then moved to MIT, where she was a Kennedy Scholar in Economics. She is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She has chaired the Executive Committee of the United Nations Foundation Board and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Department of Urban Studies and Planning

For more information, contact:

Ezra Glenn

617-253-2024

eglenn@mit.edu

Partial match funding is also available for applicants receiving AmeriCorps grants.

Deadline for applicants is December 15, 2010

For additional information, please contact:
Irwin Nesoff
Department of Leadership and Policy
Wheelock College
inesoff@wheelock.edu
617-879-2170

Led by: The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

Hosted by:
Boston College Center for Human Rights & International Justice
Haymarket People’s Fund
Madison Park Community Development Corporation
Mel King Institute for Community Building

undoing racism 2010 registration

Date
Thursday, September 30, 6-8pm
Friday, October1, 9am-5pm
Saturday, October 2, 9am-5pm

Location
Community Room at the Madison Park Village Management Office
122 Dewitt Drive, Roxbury, MA 02120

Registration Fee
$350 for small organization and individuals
$450 for large institutions and businesses
Scholarships Available for MACDC members by contacting Shirrondaa@macdc.org

Presented by the Immigrant Learning Center

Date:  September 29 – October 1, 2010
Location:  Westin Boston Waterfront

The National Immigrant Integration Conference (NIIC) will be held in Boston, Massachusetts this fall. The 1st NIIC successfully brought together over 300 stakeholders: policy makers and community based organizations, service providers and the government sector last June. The focus in Denver was how to move integration efforts forward at the local, state and national level. The Boston conference will emphasize promising practices with four broad themes:   Immigrants and Naturalization, Immigrants and the Economy, Host Communities and Justice with 24 workshops on naturalization, civic engagement, public education, language, workforce development, recertification, integration models, community development and public services.

The Partnership for New Americans selected Boston because of the rich diversity of immigrant communities and the long history of progressive integration policies in the state.  The breadth and depth of Massachusetts’ immigrant community, the 7th largest overall immigrant population in the nation, provides a unique backdrop for inclusion and integration discussions as it represents one of the nation’s most diverse populations.  Governor Patrick will offer his New American Agenda as one example of uniting forces across all sectors to foster immigrant integration.   New Jersey and Massachusetts are among the first states to work on an integration policy.

Register today: www.integrationconference.org

Sponsored by Third Sector New England

Date:  May 13, 2010
Time:  9:30am – 12:30pm
Location:  Brandon School and Residential Treatment Center, 27 Winter Street, Natick, MA 01760
Registration Fee:  $79.00

Workshop Description: Leaders increasingly recognize that in a multicultural society, diversity matters when serving our constituencies, building staff teams, and interacting with the community. At the same time, many leaders have questions about what is necessary to build a diverse workforce, better work with clients from differing cultural backgrounds, and, in general, lead change to promote diversity in their nonprofits.

Achieving diversity does not mean it can be sustained without understanding the challenge of inclusion. This interactive workshop for executive directors, board members and senior leaders will introduce a systems perspective that illustrates the multiple, interrelated factors necessary for inclusive non-profit organizations.

Building on the work of Third Sector New England’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiative, workshop content will focus on exploring organizational readiness and creating the foundation for sustainable change. The facilitators will share case studies and examples from their extensive experience working with a wide range of non-profit organizations.

Additional Information and Registration: Here

Hosted by the Boston Center for Community & Justice

Date:  Friday, May 7, 2010
Time:  7:30am – 10:00am
Location:  Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, 14th Floor

As Greater Boston’s cultural diversity increases, companies draw their workforce, customers, suppliers, and partners from a world of global complexity.  In that global market, what strategic opportunities exist for organizations to institutionalize diversity?  What would establish the “business case for diversity” in our region?  Can we measure returns on that investment for both companies and the wider community?  Speakers will discuss the challenge of leadership and business strategy that address cultural diversity in order to grow multiple bottom lines.

The program will focus on issues of strategy and leadership more than issues of implementation. When registering online, participants will be invited to contribute to a list of implementation resources that will be distributed at the breakfast.

Registration Information Here

For addition information, please contact:
Janeen Smith
JSmith@BostonCCJ.org
617-451-5010 x21

Upcoming Open Enrollment Programs:

Exploring Group Dynamics
Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010 – Friday, January 29, 2010 (also available April 11-16, 2010 & May 2-7, 2010)
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Registration Fee: $4,400.00

With the guidance of highly experienced professional consultants, participants in Exploring Group Dynamics will learn more about the implications of their behavior for such group processes as inclusion, leadership, support, control, decision making, and the resolution of conflict. Using the Sole Associates support model, workshop members will have the opportunity to learn more about how “others see them”, and through this process will come to view their own perceptions and behaviors in new and fascinating ways.

Additional information and Registration: http://www.soleassociates.com/calendar.htm
866-659-3169

Skills for Productive Conflict
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 – Sunday, March 12, 2010
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Registration Fee: $4,400.00

Some people attempt to avoid conflicts, believing they produce little but pain. In many situations however, conflict stimulates great energy and creativity. Sometimes it brings people much closer together. Conflicts are often the source of valuable change, insight, and growth. When it is well resolved, conflict generates enormous individual and group benefit.

This six-day workshop is designed to support program participants as they learn more about the psychological forces, skills, and behaviors, that contribute to the productive resolution of conflict.

Additional information and Registration: http://www.soleassociates.com/calendar.htm
866-659-3169

Advanced Group Dynamics Clinic
Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010 – Monday, April 30, 2010
Location: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Registration Fee: $4,400.00

This program is for those experienced professionals who are already knowledgeable in the field of group dynamics. Participation is for those who wish to extend their conceptual knowledge and methodological skills in the field of group dynamics. Though the program has a focus on the concepts that guide our understanding of groups, it will also support participants as they learn more about their own behavior and its implications for the development of the groups with which they work.

Additional information and Registration: http://www.soleassociates.com/calendar.htm
866-659-3169

Facilitation Skills
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010 – Friday, June 11, 2010
Location: Boston Area
Registration Fee: $1,250.00

“Facilitation” is a set of techniques that allows groups to become “more than the sum of their parts.” Facilitation skills can have great benefit in virtually any interactive setting. Of course, some people have the formal role of facilitator, but facilitation skills can be useful in any situation in which one hopes to improve the productivity and creativity of groups.

This program is for those who want to enhance their group facilitation skills quickly. It is well suited to professionals who wish to increase their professional contribution with regard to these practical skills, whether or not their professional title includes the word “facilitator.”

Additional information and Registration: http://www.soleassociates.com/calendar.htm
866-659-3169