American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
NATIONAL ORIGIN EQUITY LINKS
Description: "A civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their cultural heritage."
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
Description: An organization dedicated to combatting anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry in all forms.
BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
Description: The BUENO Center for Multicultural Education is an integral part of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Through a comprehensive range of research, training, and service projects, the Center strongly promotes quality education with an emphasis on cultural pluralism. The Center is deeply committed to facilitating equal educational opportunities for cultural and language minority students. The Center also disseminates research findings and related information through various Center publications. Funding for some Center programs is provided through grants and contracts from the U.S. Department of Education.
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE)
Description: One of three National Research and Development Centers funded through the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students.
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Inc.
Description: An organization that develops "programs designed to afford leadership development training for talented young Hispanics, as well as the opportunity to enter a wider range of professional areas."
Digital Divide
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
Description: The Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) is a federally-funded collaborative effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Council for Exceptional Children, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education. The CLAS Institute is funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education. The CLAS Institute identifies, evaluates, and promotes effective and appropriate early intervention practices and preschool practices that are sensitive and respectful to children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Equity Assistance Centers (EAC)
(formerly Desegregation Assistance Centers)
Description: The ten Equity Assistance Centers are funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They provide assistance in the areas of Race, Gender, and National Origin equity to public schools to promote equal educational opportunities.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (ERIC/CLL)
Description: The ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics is operated by the Center for Applied Linguistics, a private non profit organization. ERIC/CLL provides a wide range of services and materials for language educators, most of them free of charge.
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
Description: GCIR seeks to move the philanthropic field to advance the contributions and address the needs of the world's growing and increasingly diverse immigrant and refugee populations.
Harvard Civil Rights Project
Harvard University
Description: A project that produces original research on civil rights and equal opportunity policies to inform the design and implementation of those policies.
Iniciativa para la Excelencia en la Educación de los Hispanoamericanos
U.S. Department of Education
Description: Los objetivos claves de la Comisión son fortalecer la capacidad de la nación para proveer educación de alta calidad y aumentar las oportunidades para los hispanoamericanos para que participen y se beneficien del programa federal de educación.
Japanese Americans Citizens League
Description: "The nation's oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization, founded in 1929 to address issues of discrimination targeted specifically at persons of Japanese ancestry residing in the United States."
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
Description: "The leading nonprofit Latino litigation, advocacy and educational outreach institution in the United States."
Minority Student Achievement Network
Description: The Minority Student Achievement Network is a national coalition of multiracial, relatively affluent suburban school districts that have come together to study the disparity in achievement between white students and students of color through intensive research. The Network was established to discover, develop, and implement the means to ensure high academic achievement of minority students.
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
Description: An organization that "works to advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through litigation, public education and public policy."
National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
Description: "The only national organization exclusively concerned with the education of language-minority students in American schools."
National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
Description: NABE is a professional membership organization that supports the education of English language learners through: providing professional development opportunities for its members; collaborating with other civil rights and education organizations to ensure that the needs of language minority students are met in every state; and lobbying Congress for adequate funding of all programs that serve English language learners.
National Association for Multicultural Education
Description: A national membership organization consisting of individuals and groups -- from all levels of education, different academic disciplines and diverse educational institutions -- who have an interest in multicultural education.
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)
Description: NCELA, the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (formerly NCBE, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA, formerly OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S.
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
Description: The oldest and largest tribal government organization in the United States, NCAI serves as a forum for consensus-based policy development among its membership of over 250 tribal governments from every region of the country.
National Council of La Raza
Description: "A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans."
National Education Association (NEA)
Description: "America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education."
Native American Rights Fund
Description: "A non-profit organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide."
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
U.S. Department of Education
People for the American Way
Description: An organization "committed to defending democracy and bringing the ideals of community, opportunity, diversity, equality and fairness together to form a strong, united voice."
Project Equality
Description: "A national program with over 35 years of experience in working to change employment practices by utilizing the purchasing power of its members to encourage and motivate suppliers of goods and services to take affirmative employment actions."
Publications and Fact Sheets on Health Issues for Latino Americans
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Description: Links to articles & factsheets on health issues affecting Latino American families.
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Description: "A non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. dedicated to improving the education of African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans."
Southern Poverty Law Center
Description: "A non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation."
Teaching For Change
(formerly Network of Educators on the Americas - NECA)
Description: A Washington, DC-based not-for-profit organization that promotes social and economic justice through public education.
The English Language Learner KnowledgeBase
Region VII Comprehensive Center
Description: The English Language Learner KnowledgeBase is an online resource supporting educational professionals in the administration of their programs for ELL students. It brings together the theory and practice needed to create a quality program that meets Office for Civil Rights (OCR) compliance requirements.
Urban Institute
Description: A nonprofit policy research organization whose goals are to "sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices."