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Communities Working Together works in a variety of ways to increase understanding and help people of different backgrounds and points of view work together more effectively. CWT does this through providing trainings and workshops, facilitating dialogues, offering consultation services for groups and individuals, conducting mediation between parties and organizing a variety of other special events and activities. Our current programs are generally of four types:
- Dialogues on interracial and interethnic cooperation
Communities Working Together has a long and successful track record working in cities around the country to improve understanding and cooperation across racial and ethnic lines. During 2004 CWT has been active in organizing community dialogues and other educational programs that commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. These programs have taken place throughout the state of Maryland and other similar dialogues that reflect on the changes of the past 50 years are planned in other communities later this year. CWT is also involved in on-going programs that utilize interracial dialogue in Flint, MI, Richmond, VA and Columbus, GA. At the same time, we are working with several national organizations as well as community leaders in Montgomery, AL to make plans for a large national commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which will be late in 2005.
- Interfaith gatherings
to increase understanding and cooperative action
In
the past, CWT has worked with leaders of many different faiths and religions
at the local level. Now, for the first time, we are bringing leaders
from across the country together to explore ways to build a national
interfaith movement. Communities Working Together is a primary sponsor
of the Interfaith Dialogue Gathering that
will take place in Washington, DC from November 11-14, 2004 .
- Personal leadership trainings and workshops
Encouraging and assisting community leaders to take personal responsibility for solving the problems they see around them is a key component of our work. Communities Working Together assists many groups, organizations, and government agencies in designing leadership training programs that are appropriate for their needs. In addition, CWT works with its parent organization, Project Victory to promote and conduct a course entitled" The Soul of Leadership". This 24 hour course is offered in several different formats and will next be offered in early 2005 in Santa Cruz, CA .
- Forums and dialogues for educational institutions
Many schools
and educational institutions have relied on Communities Working Together
to help them develop materials, train facilitators and conduct programs
that emphasize understanding, tolerance and cooperative action. CWT
is now working with several organizations in Maryland to promote an
action kit for students that will be distributed this fall across the
state. The action kit is entitled "Learning About the Past and Influencing
the Future" and gives students easy to understand information about
how they can get involved and have a positive impact in their community.
CWT has also been contacted by representatives of several colleges and
universities that are interested in organizing dialogues and/or trainings
to help create a greater sense of unity on their campuses. It is anticipated
that some of these programs will start in the fall of 2004 and continue
through the school year.
