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All of these grantees are experimenting with ways of incorporatingBill Bridges' theory of transition into their work. COMMUNITY RECONCILIATION Action
Evaluation Research Institute Purpose
of Grant: To fund the Action Evaluation Research Institute (AERI)
to guide a final educational and "hand-off" process with
community representatives; analyze and document the collaborative
process to date, and the application Bridges' transitions framework
to it; facilitate thoughtful and accurate coverage of the collaborative
process by the media; and adapt the lessons learned from the Cincinnati
Collaborative process to similar instances of conflict in other
jurisdictions. Action
Evaluation Research Institute Purpose of Grant: To fund the Action Evaluation Research Institute, the nonprofit arm of the ARIA Group, to host an Action Evaluation Conference, Enhancing the Power of Action Evaluation, in which it will bring Action Evaluation practitioners, partners, sponsors and associates together to create a shared understanding of how the Action Evaluation methodology and technology can be further developed. Action
Evaluation Research Institute Purpose of Grant: To develop both a user-friendly integrated model of Transitions and Action Evaluation for use by grantees, and a curriculum to train grantees in the model's use. Baltimore
Community Foundation Purpose of Grant: John Griffith was the husband of AFF Board Member Liz Wilson and son of Dr. Lawrence and Anne Griffith. He grew up in Maryland and graduated from Friends School of Baltimore and Haverford College. He obtained a master's from UCLA School of Public Health. He earned a medical degree from Case Western University and did his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Following group practice in Ohio, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions where he established the Fibroid Center. John
was a highly regarded medical doctor who was most honored by awards
which priced his compassionate care of patients and his teaching
and mentorship of residents. What John treasured most was using
his immense talents and huge heart to help people and make a positive
difference intheir lives. Liz Wilson has established a Fund to help
support in others the same passion for learning, teaching, and giving.
This grant will support this Fund. The
Baptist Peace Fellowship Purpose
of Grant: To fund six months of planning that will allow the leaders
of Detroit's interfaith community to go through a reflective process,
gather input from their congregants, create a vision for a more
cohesive Detroit metropolitan faith-based community, and develop
a two-year action agenda that will facilitate the community's movement
toward this articulated goal. Beloved
Community Center of Greensboro/Greensboro Justice Fund Purpose
of Grant: To support the planning phase of a reconciliation process
that would attempt to address the conflict in Greensboro surrounding
the 1979 killing of five labor and civil rights demonstrators by
Klu Klux Klansmen and American Nazi Party members. Beloved
Community Center of Greensboro/Greensboro Justice Fund Purpose of Grant: To support the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that will attempt to address the conflict in Greensboro surrounding the 1979 killing of five labor and civil rights demonstrators by Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazi Party members, and to work with community residents and stakeholders to implement the TRC's recommendations. Beloved
Community Center of Greensboro/Greensboro Justice Fund Purpose of Grant: To fund a day-and-a-half convening (mini-conference) of a small group of Community Reconciliation grantees to explore the role that a collective understanding of history plays in community reconciliation efforts. CDR
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City University of New York - Dispute Purpose of Grant: To fund the Making Talk Work: Cops and Kids Transition Dialogue Program - a pilot project which seeks to build upon the existing Cops and Kids Program to improve relations between police and young people by: providing them with valuable conflict resolution skills; offering an opportunity to engage in an expressive, open discussion with each other within a supportive, respective setting; and aiding participants in developing and presenting, to community members, ways to resolve issues of community concern. Committee
Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) Purpose of Grant: To hire a full time consultant to coordinate the organizing, education, outreach, coordination and planning related to the waterfront initiative. This initiative is already being funded by AFF and currently involves planning a multi-stakeholder engagement process convened and facilitated by UJC and CAAAV (including member leaders of the Chinatown Tenant Union) with the goal of creating a community (broadly defined) vision and plan that will have a significant and concrete impact on promoting equitable and sustainable development in Chinatown. Community
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Law Center Purpose of Grant: To fund the first two years of a three-year project to provide a series of community conferences to address the seriously eroded relationships between residents and police in the Greenmount West neighborhood in Baltimore. Conflict
Management Group Purpose of Grant: To fund a planning project in Providence, Rhode Island to assess the potential value for a joint application of the Transition Framework, Action Evaluation, and Interest-Based Negotiation in skills building and community reconciliation towards improved police-community relations. Construyendo
Circulos de Paz/Constructing Circles of Peace (CCP) Purpose of Grant:To create promotional materials necessary for the growth and development of CCP and to enable CCP staff to hire a consultant who will design a logo, stationery, business cards and an introductory brochure to educate clients, officials, the media and funders about this ground-breaking program. Developing
Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To integrate the Collaborative Change Approach with the Navajo and Hopi traditional peacemaking processes to bring together and engage native peoples in deep dialogue with one another about their water. The core outcome of this entire project will be a deep sense of voice. Developing
Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To enable Project staff to refine the design for and build their capacity to facilitate the "Water is Life" Project in the Tuba City and Chinle areas of the Navajo Nation. Developing
Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To enable the Navajo to speak with a more powerful and unified voice to their leaders about the sacred nature of and equitable distribution of water. Developing
Innovations in Navajo Education, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To enable 36 Navajo peacemakers to facilitate work on environmental and natural resource issues by developing relationships among all the various stakeholders, creating respect and cooperation through a comprehensive goal identification. Flathead
Valley Community College Foundation Purpose of Grant: To engage a broad base of stakeholders in the Flathead Valley Community in a CCA process in which they begin to design a way to engage in respectful civic ciscourse to address some of the conflict that has arisen as a result of the community's changing economic landscape. Natural resource use will be the initial conflict to be addressed. Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLESN) Purpose of Grant: To underwrite GLESN's Accountability Program, a new program aimed at community reconciliation on the issue of anti-gay hate violence. Good
Shepherd Services Purpose of Grant: To underwrite the cost of the Second Annual meeting of Community Reconciliation grantees. The seminar was facilitated by Lisa Magarrell of the International Center for Transitional Justice, and brought current and prospective grantees together to share their experiences and lessons from their work with the transitions framework. International
Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Purpose of Grant: To fund a year-long Andrus Family Fund Fellowship, based at the International Center for Transitional Justice, to develop ideas for how various international models of transitional and restorative justice could address domestic hate crime, conservation and police/community issues. International
Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Purpose of Grant: To provide support to ICTJ's theoretical and practical work in the field of transitional justice and reconciliation, to the benefit of both ICTJ and AFF. International
Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Purpose of Grant: To allow the International Center for Transitional Justice to provide substantive support to the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project and to the upcoming Greensboro Truth Commission. International
Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Purpose of Grant: To allow the International Center for Transitional Justice to continue to provide substantive support to the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project and to the upcoming Greensboro Truth Commission. International
Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Purpose of Grant: To allow Lisa Magarrell, Senior Associate at the ICTJ, and Jill Williams, the former Director of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to work with key Greensboro partners to evaluate the broader impact of the Greensboro truthand reconciliation process and share the lessons learned with other community efforts. Jane
Goodall Institute Purpose of Grant: To distill lessons from African environmental conservation programs that can form a framework for addressing conservation conflicts in the United States. Jane
Goodall Institute Purpose of Grant: To distill lessons from African environmental conservation programs that can form a framework for addressing conservation conflicts in the United States. Jane
Goodall Institute Purpose of Grant:To underwrite the costs of the Second Annual meetings of Community Reconciliation and Foster Care to Independence grantees (both past and current grantees). Jane
Goodall Institute Purpose of Grant: To fund the dissemination and publication of the results of JGI's Conservation and Community Conflict Study. Jane
Goodall Institute Purpose
of Grant: To underwrite the costs of the Third Annual meetings of
Community Reconciliation and Foster Care to Independence grantees
(both past and current grantees). The Community Reconciliation meeting
will take place either late summer, or early fall of 2004. Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights Purpose of Grant: To support the first phase in a process to improve police and community relations in New York City. Make
the Road by Walking, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To allow Make the Road by Walking (MRBW) to explore the possibility of using William Bridges' Transition Framework and the C3 (formerly known as Action Evaluation methodology) to collaboratively resolve the problem of endemic homophobia in Bushwick neighborhood high schools through MRBW's and GLOBE's Safe Schools Campaign. Make
the Road by Walking, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To allow Make the Road by Walking (MRBW) and Gay and Lesbians of Bushwick Empowered (GLOBE) to utilize the Collaborative Change Approach to facilitate a collaborative change process in which students, school administrators, staff, security, and parents work together to resolve the problem of endemic homophobia in three Bushwick neighborhood high schools through MRBW/GLOBE's Safe Schools Campaign. Make
the Road by Walking, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To allow Make the Road by Walking (MRBW) and Gay and Lesbians of Bushwick Empowered (GLOBE) to continue its work with stakeholders in the Safe Schools Project to institutionalize changes to ensure long-term solutions to the problem of homophobia and transphobia in schools. Make
the Road by Walking, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To allow Make the Road by Walking (MRBW) and GLOBE to continue its work with stakeholders in the Safe Schools Project, and to launching the project in at least two new high schools. The
Meridian Institute Purpose of Grant: To incorporate the principles of the Transition framework into Meridian's existing approach to facilitating community-based watershed initiatives in four watershed communities in New Mexico. Michigan
Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Purpose of Grant: To fund a "Commitment to Inclusion and Justice: A Community Engagement Program to Reduce Racial Profiling in Detroit," a structured process designed to engage members of the Detroit community in: (1) understanding and acknowledging the discrimination and biases associated with racial profiling; and (2) identifying, creating and implementing new strategies for successful community reconciliation efforts and improved community-police relations. Michigan
Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Purpose
of Grant: To enable the Interfaith Partners Board to engage in activities
to solidify the New Beginning that it has reached and to expand
and engage the circle of people and congregations in the larger
interfaith community in activities that will help them navigate
their own transition process so that they can share in this New
Beginning. Purpose of Grant: To build on Southwest Detroit and National Conference for Community and Justice's (NCCJ's) collaborative efforts over the past two years (these efforts, collaboratively, are referred to as "impact Southwest Detroit") to enhance the relationship between police and community by: (1) further developing southwest Detroit's internal capacity for collaboratively social change; and (2) augmenting NCCJ's organizational capacity for improving community-police relations throughout Michigan. Michigan
Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Purpose of Grant: To allow the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion (formerly known as The National Conference for Community and Justice - Michigan Region) to continue to support the Initiative for Meaningful Police and Community Trust (IMPACT), and to assist the IMPACT Steering Committee members with developing a strategic plan for sustainability, including a fund development plan consistent with IMPACT's goals. Michigan
Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion Purpose of Grant: To enable the Working Group of the Interfaith Leaders Council to prepare itself for Bridging the Congregational Divide (BCD) - a process to address institutional racism and racial inequity in the Detroit Metro community. National
Organization for Victim Assistance/ Purpose: To promote community reconciliation through the identification, examination and development of new responses to hate crimes/hate incidents that are based on facilitated dialogue and other restorative justice priniciples. New
Prospect Development Corporation Purpose of Grant: To fund the planning and design phase of a year-long project to create a collaborative process for addressing and easing tensions between the Cincinnati police and communities of color. New
Prospect Development Corporation Purpose of Grant: To help support the implementation of the Community Partnering Plan, a project included in the Collaborative Agreement that is designed to prepare the community for community problem oriented policing (CPOP), a central feature of the Agreement. New York UniversityCenter on Violence and Recovery 194 Mercer Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10012-1502 www.nyu.edu/cvr Grant Amount: $58,000 (1 year) Date Awarded: April 2005 Purpose of Grant: To introduce and explore the use of Peacemaking Circles (PCs), an innovative, non-traditional restorative justice intervention, to address domestic violence issues on an individual and community level in Nogales, Arizona. New
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Atlantic Marine Alliance Purpose
of Grant: To engage NAMA Northwest
Atlantic Marine Alliance Purpose of Grant: To plan the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance's facilitation of the design of a large-scale visioning process for the New England fishery. Northwest
Atlantic Marine Alliance Purpose of Grant: The purpose of this project is twofold: (1) to engage diverse stakeholders in New England's groundfish industry in a negotiation process in order to build a shared vision for its future; and (2) to work to see that the results are widely disseminated and form a foundation for subsequent fisheries management decisions. Northwest
Atlantic Marine Alliance Purpose of Grant: The grant will support three interrelated goals: (1) the writing of a book entitled, Sharing the Ocean: Building a Common Vision for New England's Commercial Fisheries, that documents the Fleet Visioning Project (FVP), a recent AFF-funded effort that addressed the conflict over fisheries management in the Northeast; (2) articulate an accessible explanation of the Collaborative Change Approach (CCA) in order to provide AFF grantees and other communities undergoing change with a reference for managing change; (3) to serve as a "living document" to remind the Northwest Atlantic fishery community of the important progress it achieved, helping to sustain the transition as well as promote the implementation of FVP products into management. Portland
State University Immigrant
and Refugee Community Organization Purpose of Grant: To address historic tensions between African refugee groups displaced from two geographical regions - Somalia and the Great Lakes region of Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo - by facilitating dialogue about the participants' common experiences of transition as refugees and imagining a new beginning in which the refugees are able to live and work together. Search
for Common Ground Purpose of Grant: To assist leaders in Cincinnati resolve the standoff over economic issues (the boycott); help local media create space for common ground; engage the arts and youth communities; and strengthen the capacity of community organizations and the new Police Community Problem-Solving Center. Search
for Common Ground Purpose of Grant: To establish a pilot peer-to-peer consultant network for Community Reconciliation grantees to learn from each other about how to use the Transition Framework to confront challenges in their community reconciliation work. Spalding
Drive Charter Elementary School Purpose of Grant: To allow the Spalding Drive Charter Elementary School, where Mary Lowman (former Andrus Family Fund's Board Member) worked for many years as a student counselor, to build/landscape a wishing well and garden in Mary's honor. University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Purpose of Grant: To gather baseline data from residents of Guilford County, North Carolina, before the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission begins taking public testimony in July 2004. Data from the proposed study will serve as a baseline to assess, in future research, whether attitudes on race, reconciliation, justice and social cohesion change over time as a result of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Purpose of Grant: To enable Dr. Jeffrey Sonis to conduct a follow-up study to determine whether attitudes towards reconciliation and social trust have changed in Greensboro, North Carolina as a result of the activities of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. University
of Virginia Purpose of Grant: To fund the convening, consensus-building, and facilitation of one urban and one rural community-based collaborative effort in communities that are seeking to resolve natural resource management issues. University
of Virginia Purpose of Grant: To fund a graduate student for the fall 2007 semester and during the Christmas break to assist Frank Dukes, the Director of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation at the University of Virginia, to research and plan for a systematic and coordinated effort involving University administration and faculty and staff, alumni, community members, and students in defining how the University of Virginia community should examine and address the history and legacy of slavery and segregation. University
of Virginia Purpose of Grant: To support the Institute for Environmental Negotiation in partnership with the Office of African-American Affairs and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, in convening and facilitating a systematic, coordinated effort involving University of virginia students, administration and faculty and staff, alumni, and community members in defining how the University community can complete the transition from the divisive legacy of slavery and segregation to a community of shared understanding and purpose.
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Justice Center Purpose of Grant: To engage a wide-range of stakeholders in New York's Chinatown community in a process in which they create a collective vision and action plan that promotes sustainable housing and economic development in Chinatown in the face of small business and residential displacement as a result of globalization and gentrification. Urban
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Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) Purpose of Grant: To : (1) develop a strong and articulated stakeholder of low-income residents that will be organized and informed, and will have the necessary experience and leadership to engage other community stakeholders in discussion, decision-making and action that will facilitate the sustainable and inclusive development of Chinatown; and (2) continue the process of engaging multiple stakeholders, particularly those that have not traditionally seen each other as allies or resources, in a broader process of community reconciliation that will enable the collective visioning for and the viable implementation of equitable and sustainable development of a diverse and inclusive Chinatown. Urban
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Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) Purpose of Grant: To support the planning process for the next phase of the Sustainable Chinatown Project to carry out a multi-stakeholder engagement process convened and facilitated by Urban Justice Center and CAAAV (including member leaders of the Chinatown Tenant Union) with the goal of creating a community (broadly defined) vision and plan that will have a significant and concrete impact on promoting equitable and sustainable development in Chinatown. Urban
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Independent, Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!) Purpose of Grant: To engage LGBTQ youth, residents, merchants and police in the West Village community in a process in which they begin to collaboratively reframe the definition of the West Village Community so that it includes LGBTQ youth, and builds a sense of common interest in a safe West Village among all stakeholders. Urban
Justice Center Fabulous,
Independent, Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!) Purpose of Grant: To further engage LGBTQ youth, residents, merchants and police in the West Village community in a process in which they begin to collectively reframe the definition of the West Village community so that it includes LGBTQ youth and builds a sense of common interest in a safe West Village for all stakeholders. The
Urban League of Greater Cincinnati Purpose of Grant: To build the capacity of "The Friends of the (Cincinnati) Collaborative ("Friends") to continue to listen to and work with the African-American community, police and other stakeholder groups of the Cincinnati community. The Friends will educate the community in what was accomplished since the Collaborative Agreement was signed in 2001. They will discuss the challenges, paradigm shift to community police problem solving, and facilitate a process of widespread engagement, across all stakeholder groups, in which the community's citizens understand, expect, and cooperate with this new method of partnering with the police to continue. Vanderbilt
University Purpose of Grant: To fund a 6-month personal transformation and leadership development process in which Cincinnati youth will be taught how to plan, advocate and access resources to change their relationship with local adults and become prepared to lead an effort to bring together two fractured communities. Vanderbilt
University Purpose of Grant: To: (1) train the current Core Group of Youth "Multipliers" (recruited and trained with our prior grant) to recruit and train an additional 10-12 youth using a Transition-enhanced youth development curriculum; (2) to create a Youth Board that will conduct a needs assessment of the youth in the Over-the-Rhine and Madisonville neighborhoods as related to police-community relations; and (3) to work with a consultant to devise a strategy to bring the police into the process and establish a youth-police partnership that will facilitate a process in which the two stakeholding groups will work together to improve their relationship. Vanderbilt
University Purpose of Grant: To fund the travel and lodging costs that will enable academics and AFF grantees to participate in a conference hosted by Vanderbilt University in April 2007 on sources of resistance to apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation in inter-group conflicts. The conference will include explicit discussions the Transitions Framework and also feature a dialogue between AFF-funded practitioners and the scholars in attendance. Vanderbilt
University Purpose of Grant: To help AFF grantees maximize the benefits to their programs from applying the Transition Framework by providing consistent, high quality training, consulting and coaching; and to help the entire AFF - board, staff, consultants, grantees, and learning partners - learn how to more effectively "hard wire" the Framework into existing programs so that the benefits will be sustainable in the long run.
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Institute of Justice Purpose of Grant: To fund: (1) the publication and distribution of 10,000 educational booklets containing the entire text of the Collaborative Agreement and a summary of it to Cincinnati community members; and (2) the design of a media strategy to help ensure thorough and accurate coverage of the Cincinnati collaborative process. Vital
Visions, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To create a new study guide for a film that Vital Visions created (which was screened on Public Television) called, Theologians Under Hitler, utilizing a Collaborative Change Approach process that engages a small nationally recognized group of leaders from across the political/theological spectrum (left/right, Jews, Christians, Christian conservatives/liberals, etc.). Vital
Visions, Inc. Purpose of Grant: To build upon a Collaborative Change Approach (CCA) process that engaged a small, nationally recognized group of leaders from across the political/theological spectrum by initiating a second CCA process that would re-engage these leaders - together with leaders from various areas of theological education - to create ways to translate the ideas and values contained in the study guide associated with the film "Theologians Under Hitler" into a teachable curricula. West
Anniston Medical Clinic, Inc. Purpose of Grant: The Tolbert Healthcare Project, the Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, and the Community Foundation of Calhoun County seek funding from the Andrus Family Fund to utilize the Collaborative Change Approach to reconnect Anniston, Alabama, in and through the development of a youth-based initiative. Through the development of Anniston Reconnecting - a Catalyst for Healing ("ARCH"), a community reconciliation strategy focused on collectively developing a sustainable youth initiative, will be formulated, planned and implemented over a period of three years. Working
Films Purpose of Grant: With local partners, to organize "film conferences" based on the theme of community reconciliation and justice and to partner with film-maker Adam Zucker to devise a national outreach strategy for his film about the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project (a recipient of numerous AFF grants). The
Working Group Purpose
of Grant: To complete the third installment of the PBS television
series, "Not in Our Town: The Kalispell Story," and initiate
a series of facilitated screenings in Kalispell, both of which will
use the film and the Bridges' Transition framework to help this
rapidly changing comunity through the Endings phase of the model. Purpose of Grant: To initiate a series of facilitated screenings in Kalispell, Montana of the PBS television documentary series, "Not in Our Town: The Fire Next Time, The Kalispell Story," which will use the film and the Bridges' Transition framework to help this rapidly changing community through the Endings phase of the model. The
Working Group Purpose of Grant: To create a Transitions curriculum that could be used as a companion tool to the film, The Fire Next Time. The
Working Group Purpose of Grant: To record/film "teachable moments" from workshop sessions at the Joint Grantee Conference in August, including interactions between Bill Bridges and grantees. The
Working Group Purpose of Grant: To produce a short film (30 minutes) that would feature the Constructing Circles of Peace Program (CCP) in Nogales, AZ, and that would: (1) introduce CCP to other communities and potential funders as an alternative solution to traditional justice system methods for dealing with intimate violence; illustrate the use of the Transition lens in the CCP process; and present the CCP story and ideas to prospective participants, counselors and law enforcement as an orientation tool to the process. YorkCounts
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