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

Accomplishments for Modeling by Organizations Nationwide

CommUNITY 2000 was designed so that its objectives would resonate well beyond the parameters of the project itself.

To that end, the CommUNITY 2000 partners' purpose in investing their time, effort and ingenuity in the project was two-fold: to prevent or respond to community tensions within their own spheres of influence, and to provide interested individuals and organizations with a variety of strategies adaptable to their particular circumstances.

What follows is the CommUNITY 2000 Menu of Strategies. It offers a thumbnail sketch of each successful tension-reduction plan implemented during the two-year project, and a brief explanation of why, generally speaking, the strategy worked.

This Menu is meant to serve as a tool for anyone seeking effective ways to reduce, respond to or reconcile tensions.*

* For further information on the project itself or specific strategies, please refer to our contact information