The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

CommUNITY 2000

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Civil Rights and Fair Housing Today
• CommUNITY2000: What is it? Why is it?
  • Purposes of CommUNITY 2000: Developing, Documenting and Reporting
  • Funding: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Overview of Partners for First 18 Months
• Building Communities With a Menu of Strategies
  • Accomplishments for Modeling by Organizations Nationwide
  • Successful Strategies: The National Partners
  • Successful Strategies: Local Partners
  • Contact Information
• National Partners
  • Building Community Throughout the Country
  • National Advisory Board
• The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston
• Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities
• Access Living
• The Fair Housing Council of San Diego
• Building Community for the Future
• Appendix A: Case Studies on Coalition Building Activities
  • Introduction
  • Case Study Methodology
  • City Approaches to Community Tensions
  • Cross Cutting Themes
  • Recommendations
• Appendix B: Census 2000 Charts
• Acknowledgements

Overview of Partners for First 18 Months

The CommUNITY 2000 local partners were chosen because they represented different geographic regions and, with the exception of the Greater Boston organization, had well-established fair housing centers. Each of the partners involved in Phase I, both national and local, faced their own unique challenges. Each partner received a different level of funding. Yet regardless of monies received, the partners met their challenges and developed solutions.

Each partner fulfilled the objectives that the architects of CommUNITY 2000 initially set forth. Each developed innovative approaches to help foster positive change in the civil rights and fair housing environments of their communities. Each was able to make a contribution to the Menu of Strategies.