Diversity and inclusion

Neighboring 101

Monthly zoom classes that look at the issue of neighboring by highlighting examples across the nation where it is being done well.

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Systems Change Primer

Event date: June 17, 2022 - Oct. 21, 2022

The Systems Change Primer is a workshop (presented virtually in 2022) designed to refresh and reiterate the key tenets of Systems Change methodology as explicitly tied to achieving Racial Equity. Facilitators will offer a shared learning and guide ...

Power Building Academy

Event date: June 24, 2022 - Aug. 14, 2022

WEPOWER is a community of members who work together to address systemic injustice at its root. We design the solutions that we know will support our well-being. We build wealth that can resource the dreams of our families and the transformation of ...

Neighborhood Leadership Academy

Event date: Sept. 12, 2022 - Nov. 15, 2022

St. Louis, MO

The Neighborhood Leadership Academy (NLA) provides in-depth and multifaceted leadership training that emphasizes community building principles and strategies, project planning, organizational leadership and management practices, and personal ...

Introduction to Equity-Centered Community Design

Event date: Oct. 14, 2021 - June 9, 2022

Oppressive, inequitable, and unequal systems are by design; therefore, we can redesign them. Equity-Centered Community Design is a creative problem-solving framework developed by Creative Reaction Lab that supports the development of equity-centered ...

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MU receives USDA grant to help veterans, Latinos, women and others to farm

Published: Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $179,614 grant to the University of Missouri to support efforts to help veterans, Latinos, women and socially disadvantaged persons to farm or go into agribusiness.The grant will fund ...

Boots on the Green

Published: Friday, May 23, 2014

GRANITE CITY, Ill.– After Bobby Hutchinson lost his left leg in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm, he thought he’d never play golf again.“I just kind of had it in my head that that chapter in my life was over,” says Hutchinson, who was a ...

New documentary on Eliot Battle previews Feb. 25 on MU campus

Published: Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Local civil rights pioneer Eliot Battle is the subject of a new documentary that chronicles his pivotal role in desegregating schools, housing and the Columbia community.On Feb. 25 at 7 p.m., University of Missouri Extension will ...

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Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: Growing Together in New Destination Areas

Publication date: June 1, 2015

Cambio de Colores as a yearly event aims to strengthen the networks of community organizers, extension professionals, academics, and public and private-sector institutions focused on communities that are changing as a result of newcomer settlements, ...

Battle: Cambio Desde Adentro — Currículum de la Guía de Observación

Publication date: July 22, 2014

Este documental es sobre el educador Eliot Battle y el papel fundamental que jugó en la desegregación de las escuelas, barrios residenciales y en la comunidad en general de Columbia, Missouri. Battle promovió estos cambios a través de la vía ...

Battle: Change From Within, Curriculum Viewing Guide — Schools, Community and 4-H

Publication date: June 1, 2014

This documentary is about educator Eliot Battle and the pivotal role he played in desegregating schools, housing and the Columbia community. As Battle facilitated changes with quiet resolve, he faced resistance from both the black and white ...

Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: Positive Steps Toward a Pluralist Society

Publication date: June 1, 2014

Cambio de Colores — Latinos in the Heartland: At the Crossroads, ¿Incorporation or Marginalization?

Publication date: June 1, 2013

Battle: Change From Within, Curriculum Viewing Guide — Community

Publication date: Dec. 2, 2012

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