Close the Gap: A Community Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• What is the Community Guide on Race, Class, and Place Disparities in the Twin Cities?
• How to Use this Guide
• Tips for Facilitators

Part I: Making the Case

• Making the Case

Part II: Race

• “Building Pride, Building Resilience”
• Legislative Racial Report Card
• “Telling our Stories”
• The Skin I'm In
• “The Browning of Minnesota”

Part III: Class

• "Not Those People"
• Justice for Janitors
• Diversity at Food Shelves
• Hope & Homelessness

Part IV: Place

• Access to Jobs
• Re-segregation: Fact Not Fiction
• “More Like America”
• Healing in Any Language

Part V: Making Change

• Hiring from the Heart
• E-mentoring, E-ffectiveness
• Community Garden Reunion
• Immersive Education
• Power of Parents in Education
• Origins of the African American Men Project
• The Church as a Gateway
• Impact of Minority Entrepreneurs

Annexes:

Annex 1, Human Rights Documents:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Download PDF)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (Download PDF)
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Download PDF)

Annex 2, Tips for Facilitators

• What is a Facilitator? (Download PDF)
• Ground Rules: RESPECT poster

Annex 3, Glossary