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INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL l PROJECT CHANGE

a national joint racial and social justice venture

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call to communities of the nation and the world!

MISSION

The Institute for Democratic Renewal•Project Change (IDR•PC), a national joint antiracism, social justice collaboration, catalyzes, supports, strengthens and contributes to movements for racial and social justice. IDR•PC assists communities in dismantling racism and achieving full and equitable participation in the democratic process through a variety of convenings, networking, learning communities, projects, publications and technologies.

IDR•PC BACKGROUND

Established at Claremont Graduate University in 1998, the work of the Institute for Democratic Renewal is dedicated to preserving and strengthening those basic components of a democratic society expressed by the words freedom, security, opportunity, and choice. These four words are the hallmarks of a free society and the foundation of American democratic values. The first major undertaking of the Institute was its now-concluded national project, Renewing Democracy Through Interracial, Multicultural Community Building. Rooted in and growing out of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race, the project sought to identify communities nationwide where exemplary action in interracial, multicultural community building was underway. Printed in six languages, up to 70,000 copies of the project’s major publication, A Community Builder’s Tool Kit: 15 Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive, Interracial/Multicultural Communities, are in circulation and can be ordered on this website. The project concluded in 2002 with the joint anti-racism venture merge of the Institute for Democratic Renewal with Project Change (IDR•PC).

The Institute for Democratic Renewal (IDR) at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California and Project (PC), established as an initiative of the Levi-Strauss Corporation in Oakland, CA, entered into a partnership in early 2002, combining their efforts and experience promoting social justice. IDR•PC works with many other national and local organizations in this effort. Partnering in the leadership of IDR•PC are John D. Maguire, President Emeritus of Claremont Graduate University, and Shirley Strong, Executive Director of Project Change. See and hear Dr. Maguire briefly provide the history of this partnership.

Advising and counseling IDR•PC are nationally recognized, distinguished individuals who have devoted themselves and their organizations to racial and social justice and community building work.

- Acknowledgements -

IDR•PC receives support from the

Angell Foundation

Carnegie Corporation

C. S. Mott Foundation

Ford Foundation

Levi Strauss Foundation

Marguerite Casey Foundation

Schumann Center for Media and Democracy