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What We Do

Award-winning programs that inform, connect and inspire

Calling All Colors is a diversity awareness program for middle and high school students in which students attend conferences, learn tools for increasing appreciation of diversity in their schools, and creatively collaborate to implement action plans all year.
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The Lakeshore Region Summit on Racism gathers hundreds of individuals from all sectors of the community to a conference focused on the effects of racism and designed to stimulate a year of action.
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Diversity Trainings supply speakers and materials to public, private and nonprofit groups that seek to understand and eliminate barriers to racial inclusion.
The Lakeshore Institute for Healing Racism is an 8-week dialogue focused on understanding and healing the wounds of racism.
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The Migrant Mentoring Program provides academic and social supports for children of migrant farm workers and their families, and creates opportunities for cultural exchange between volunteers and migrant families. Additionally, a summer reading program serves children ages 0-5.
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The Language Academy provides courses for adults, youth, and businesses interested in learning and practicing a new language. Courses in Conversational Spanish are currently being offered.
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Advocacy Services seeks to eliminate racial barriers that limit equal treatment, provide a voice for local enforcement of civil rights laws, and promote communities of inclusion.
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Special Projects
(2009-Present) Building One America Collaboration
The Diversity Alliance has coordinated initial dialogue between key stakeholders and community leaders and Building One America leadership.
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(2009-Present) Great Start Program Collaboration
The Great Start program of the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District has partnered with the Diversity Alliance to conduct a research project to answer this question: "What are the barriers to success for youth of color and "at-risk" children ages zero to five?" The Diversity Alliance will conduct focus groups and surveys in target areas to confirm previously identified barriers and identify new barriers along with possible implementable solutions.

(2005-Present) Recruitment, Retention and Advancement: Strategies to Achieve a Diverse Workplace Toolkit
Now revised biannually, this resource toolkit for employers was originally a project of the Summit on Racism
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(2001-Present) Fair Housing Initiative
Now merged with the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, originally began as interested community members, brought together by the Lakeshore Summit on Racism, started to investigate the need for fair housing services in Ottawa County.
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