Fostering Social Change

We facilitate a resident-led neighborhood revitalization effort by fostering social change: a change in individual and neighborhood-wide mindsets and behaviors. Our key strategy to advancing social change is educating residents in literacy, advocacy, leadership, skill development and service to others.

Below is a series of racial equity resources shared with us by the panelists of Dominican Center's Racial Equity Forum in 2016.

• A Taking on Racial Equity (PowerPoint presentation)
• Racial Equity Resource Guide
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Improving Milwaukee through Neighborhoods

Fair Housing / Neighborhoods:
Race the House We Live In
Fr. James Groppi and the Historic 1967-68 Open Housing Campaign in Milwaukee
Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century by P. Dreier, J. Mollenkopf, and T. Swanstrom (doc)
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by R. Sampson (pdf)
Aligning Resources and Results: How Policymakers and Communities Can Collaborate to Improve Neighborhood Outcomes (pdf)
Resource Guide: Designing and Directing Neighborhood Change Efforts (pdf)
Milwaukee Woman Brings Street Level Credibility to Safe Zone Plan

Education:
College Degrees for Social Justice
Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics by Sarah Reckhow
Guide to College Student Rights
Student Activism Guide for Making a Difference
​Waiting for Superman

Intercultural Relations:
Racial and Economic Equity (webinar)
​Intercultural Communications by Milton Bennett (pdf)
Communicating Across Cultures by Stella Ting-Toomey (read book review)

Social Change:
We Need to Talk About an Injustice - Bryan Stevenson (Book: Just Mercy) (Equal Justice Initiative)
The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn't True - Mia Birdsong
It's Not Foundation Money but Culture and Talent That Can Change the World (article)
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (pdf) (Global Perspective website)