The Diversity Alliance provides award-winning core programming that connects, inspires and engages a broad cross-section of our community - from the grassroots volunteer, to an area CEO - in promoting inclusion and eliminating racism. download video...
 learn more... The Lakeshore Institute for Healing Racism is an 8- or 2-session dialogue focused on understanding and healing the wounds of racism. learn more...  The Language Academy provides courses for
adults, youth, and businesses interested in learning and practicing a
new language. learn more...
 Advocacy Services provides a voice for local
enforcement of civil rights laws, and the elimination of barriers that limit equal treatment for all. learn more... | 
Migrant Programs provide academic and social supports for children of migrant farm workers and their families, and creates opportunities for cultural exchange between volunteers and migrant families. learn more...  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. learn more... 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. learn more... |
Special Projects & Collaborations
The Diversity Alliance is coordinating initial dialogue between key stakeholders and community leaders and Building One America leadership.
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Compiled by volunteers as a project born of the Lakeshore Region Summit on Racism, this toolkit is the result of a study of successful practices in recruitment, retention, and advancement of a diverse workplace.
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Now merged with the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan, the Fair Housing Initiative originally began as a interested community members, brought together by the Lakeshore Region Summit on Racism, started to investigate the need for fair housing services in Ottawa County.
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Pathways, MI partnered with the Diversity Alliance to offer trainings to in-home Spanish-speaking child care providers at local migrant camps.
Barriers to Success Research Project (2009-2010)
Great Start of Ottawa County partnered with the Diversity Alliance to conduct a research project to answer: "What are the barriers to success for youth of color and "at-risk" children ages 0-5?" Interviews conducted in Holland, Grand Haven and Georgetown/Allendale indicated the main community concerns to be: health care, food assistance, and affordable, healthy foods.