The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund (LCCREF) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to civil rights education and research. Seeking to communicate to the American public the progress made in civil rights and intergroup relations, the continuing challenges, and the strength of our diversity, LCEF works to develop strategies for reducing prejudice and promoting intergroup understanding within American institutions-schools, neighborhoods, and the workplace. LCEF enjoys a close relationship with the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation's oldest and most broadly based civil rights coalition.
The Leadership Conference has more than thirty years of experience and understanding in formulating other innovative programs to address the issue of race relations and discrimination. These initiatives include:
All Together Now!, a guide containing educational activities and resources in diversity designed for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms
Cause For Concern: Hate Crimes In America, a comprehensive assessment of the hate crime problem in the United States. Documents with statistics and case studies the extent of hate crimes in the country based on race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender and includes examples of hate crimes that have occurred when racial minorities move into predominantly white neighborhoods.
Partners Against Hate, a collaborative initiative to provide the public with hate crime-related information, resources, news reports, and effective counteraction tools in the fight against youth-initiated hate violence designed by LCEF, the Anti Defamation League and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence.
The National Fair Housing Alliance
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is a consortium of private, non-profit fair housing organizations, state and local civil rights groups, and individuals, was founded in 1988 to lead the battle against housing discrimination. Through education, enforcement, training and advocacy, NFHA promotes equal housing, lending and insurance opportunities.
The mission of the National Fair Housing Alliance is to eliminate housing discrimination and ensure housing opportunity for all people. Specifically, the National Fair Housing Alliance seeks to eliminate housing discrimination against all persons because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, familial status, or any other characteristic protected under state or local laws. In furthering this goal, NFHA engages in activities designed to encourage fair housing practices through educational efforts; assists persons who believe they have been victims of housing discrimination; identifies barriers to fair housing in order to help counteract and eliminate discriminatory housing practices; works with elected and government representatives to protect and improve fair housing laws; and takes all appropriate and necessary action to ensure that fair housing laws are properly and fairly enforced throughout the nation.
The National Fair Housing Alliance recognizes the importance of "home" as a component of the American dream and envisions a country free of housing discrimination where every individual, group and community enjoys equal housing opportunity and access in a bias free and open housing market where integrated neighborhoods are the norm, and the private and public sector guarantees civil rights in an open and barrier free community committed to healing the history of discrimination in America.
"As a former Mayor, I am fully aware of the need to build solid relationships in our local neighborhoods to prevent community tensions. I applaud the work of the National Fair Housing Alliance and the Leadership Conference Education Fund in building this CommUNITY 2000 initiative."
- U.S. Senator Lincoln D. Chafee, (R) Rhode Island
