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The Umtapo Centre has provided anti-discrimination training to high schools and communities for the past three years under its Peace and Anti-Racism Education programme. Mott has supported this work for the past two years as one of the grants made to support various approaches to combating racism in schools. Over the next two years, the Umtapo Centre proposes to extend this training to all nine provincial departments of education; advocate to have this training incorporated into the school curriculum; establish youth centres to promote peace and anti-racism in six communities; produce three newsletters each year; and produce a documentary on the Peace and Anti-Racism Education programme. This grant will provide partial support for these activities and for an evaluation of the impact of the programme since its inception.
The greatest need identified in the field of community organizing is for additional trained organizers, a professional role that demands a sophisticated and disciplined skill set, including the ability to develop and challenge leaders, identify and facilitate training needs, analyze social and economic conditions, learn a community's local history, develop hundreds of relationships across all sectors of a community, and lead critical evaluation and reflection sessions on the organization's development and work. This grant will support a response to this need by funding an Organizers Institute being founded by the Direct Action and Research Training Center.
The Mott Foundation, through its Pathways Out of Poverty program, supports initiatives to engage individuals, particularly those from low-income neighborhoods, in identifying and taking action on their mutually held concerns.