People experience these effects when they take their children to school, when they apply for jobs, when they try to rent or buy a home, when they shop, when they interact with the police and more. Each individual and organization was asked to agree to the TRHT Guiding Principles throughout the design phase and beyond. On Jan. 21, 2020, we invite everyone to join us for the fourth annual National Day of Racial Healing – rooted in experiences for truth telling and trust building that lead to racial healing for a more just and equitable future. However, after participants get to know one another and build relationships, the process also involves developing a plan for creating transformational change in one or more areas: the economy, the law and in separation – the things that keep us a part like residential segregation and colonization. The TRHT process is a comprehensive effort. Considering us as a partner in your work.

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Starting from different places in each community’s journey and focusing on specific issues and challenges that are most urgent in their regions.

In the most recent 10 years of investment in these areas, the work revealed a clear need to focus more energy, resources and discourse on uprooting and eliminating the false ideology of a hierarchy of human value so that all of us could begin to effectively transform the places we live, learn work and play. Welcome. Each place received a grant investment for implementing their TRHT and in a growth fund to sustain the work for the long-term locally. Kellogg Foundation committed approximately $24 million in 14 multi-sector collaborations in communities across the U.S. to implement the TRHT process using a framework designed through an engagement process involving leaders and scholars as representatives of more than 144 national TRHT individual and organizational partners.

When he established the foundation, he said, “Use the money as you please, so long as it promotes the health, happiness and well-being of children.”. Because, while the TRHT is not a framework for responding to incidents as they happen, it can help communities in addressing the underlying root cause of why these incidents often happen in the first place – structural racism. #HowWeHeal. Please allow 24 hours for your events to appear on the map. Ultimately, the foundation selected the 14 places based on the calls it received from communities who indicated their readiness as well as communities where the foundation already had active priority place-based work. TRHT is a national effort and throughout the next two-to-five years there will be place-based TRHT processes in 14 communities, including: (1) State of Alaska; (2) Baton Rouge and (3) New Orleans, Louisiana; (4) Buffalo, New York; (5) Chicago, Illinois; (6) Dallas, Texas; (7) Los Angeles, California; (8) Richmond, Virginia; (9) Selma, Alabama; (10) Saint Paul, Minnesota; and (11) Battle Creek, (12) Flint, (13) Kalamazoo and (14) Lansing, Michigan. The TRHT was launched as a way to co-develop a process by which communities and this country could begin doing that. The responsibility belongs to all of us. Reviewing discriminatory civil and criminal laws and the public policies that come from them and recommending solutions that will produce a just application of the law. The Kellogg Foundation believes that racism affects all people from all backgrounds. A primary example being the work of the Association of American Colleges & Universities and their work to establish TRHT Centers at 30 schools across the U.S. As voluntary partners, the individuals and organizations all submitted letters of interest and commitment to the TRHT during the design phase. “Empleen el dinero del modo en que crean conveniente, siempre y cuando promueva la salud, la felicidad y el bienestar de los niños.” - Will Keith Kellogg, “Sèvi ak lajan an jan w vle depi se sante timoun, byennèt timoun ak kè kontan pou timoun w ap ankouraje.” - W.K. Join in solidarity to grieve together, heal together and renew a commitment to end racial inequities together. Yes. This robust community engagement process resulted in a set of recommendations and an Implementation Guide to inform community-led TRHT processes. ... Our theory of action is rooted in the community organizing principle of learning by doing. Communities will aim to establish a sustainable effort to advance local racial equity work and ultimately build an infrastructure that supports racial healing and transformation statewide.

The disparities and inequities faced by different racial and ethnic communities throughout the United States and the world became glaringly obvious with the onset and spread of the COVID19 pandemic. Learn more about WKKF’s commitment to racial equity. Racial healing is a process that can benefit all people because, regardless of background, we are all living in and affected by the same racialized world. Examining how to create and distribute new complex and complete narratives in entertainment, journalism, digital and social media, school curricula, museums, monuments and parks and in the way we communicate that can influence people’s perspectives, perceptions and behaviors about and towards one another so that we can work more effectively and productively towards community-based change. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work and life. In 2017, there are multi-sector collaborations of people in 14 places across the United States who have received Kellogg Foundation grants, in addition to other national, regional and local funding, to implement a TRHT process. During its design phase in 2016, the Kellogg Foundation began receiving calls inquiring about its TRHT process from communities looking for assistance in responding to significant local racial incidents. Efforts will focus on cracking the surface of Greater Chicago’s seemingly diverse communities, and addressing the impacts that segregation and racial disparities have and continue to make in the area. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Learning labs, texting resources, micro-schools, and more address pandemic-era education struggles, West Michigan blessed with fabulous network of bike paths and trails, Albion College works to create a 'protective bubble' around students to keep out COVID-19, Launch NY initiative helps women and minority founders scale up and aim high. The TRHT supports people of all ages, races, ethnicities, faiths, cultures and socioeconomic statuses coming together to shape narratives about the past, present, and future – complete and accurate stories that honor the full complexity of our humanity as the country forges a more equitable future. Fair? Dismantling key pieces of the city’s social and economic framework that have long reinforced racial oppression and perpetuated societal and economic separation within its communities. Her vision and leadership was significant in architecting the 2016 TRHT design phase, which engaged 176 leaders and scholars from 144 national organizations with a reach of more than 289 people. The Kellogg Foundation spent 2016 in a design phase for TRHT, partnering with 176 leaders and scholars as representatives of more than 144 national TRHT individual and organizational partners, with a reach of more than 289 million people. Holding themselves accountable to a data-driven based strategy that lessens the cost of structural racism on the community and increases measurable benefits for people. But, it was the murder of George Floyd in May that brought people out into the streets to protest and has led to national and global conversations about the importance of racial healing. It is when we value one person more than another based on skin color or other physical, superficial characteristics and let those values affect the decisions we make each day in areas like policymaking, in job decisions, in how we teach children – to name a few. It is not one person’s, one group’s or one organization’s responsibility. The TRHT Framework and process will help communities heal and produce actionable change. Work will involve honest examination and discussions to reshape purposefully discriminatory practices embedded in Richmond’s notoriously under-funded and embattled public school system; limited access to public transit modern economic/employment centers; and public housing that isolates and concentrates the poor in areas with few jobs or services. Eradicating structural racism and addressing implicit bias that impact all people who make up California’s rich multi-ethnic population in which there is no majority population. We anticipate ongoing collaboration with these leaders in their organizations, their sectors, on the ground in communities as well as through our annual National Day of Racial Healing, which falls the Tuesday immediately following Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Harnessing one of the region’s greatest strengths – its deep roots in community organizing – to address its urgent needs for healing and transformation.

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Studying structured inequality and barriers to economic opportunities and recommending approaches that can create an equitable society.

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To heal is to restore to wholeness; to repair damage; and to set right. The growth fund is also a place where additional funding is being raised and matched by other national, regional and local foundations. Our goal is to support and empower communities in their efforts to dismantle the structures that limit opportunities for vulnerable children. And, we believe that is all of our responsibilities to make it happen. At times this may mean that we need to tell necessary and uncomfortable truths. The TRHT Framework consists of five areas, and the first two: Narrative Change and Racial Healing and Relationship Building, are foundational pillars for all TRHT work. The investments in each place range from approximately $1.5 to $4 million and implementation can be from two-to-five years. On June 25, 2020, the W.K. This absurd belief, which has fueled racism and conscious and unconscious bias throughout American culture, is the perception of inferiority or superiority based on race, physical characteristics or place of origin. The result of this year-long community engagement process is a TRHT Framework and related recommendations and an Implementation Guidebook to inform community-led TRHT processes. Racial healing is not only important, it is essential. In terms of criteria, the foundation selected TRHT places based on three factors: (1) interest and commitment to TRHT; (2) history of that place; and (3) readiness for a TRHT process. All rights reserved. By fostering engagement, communities will be empowered to address issues affecting them in politics, economics, education, health and safety. Examining and finding ways to address segregation, colonization and concentrated poverty in neighborhoods to ultimately ensure equitable access to health, education and jobs. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) was founded in 1930 by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg.