Who is the Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative?The Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative (FREC) is a loose collective of organizations committed to overcoming racism in Minnesota. We collaborated to organize the Overcoming Racism: Why IS It So Hard? conference November 6-7, 2009.
You or your organization can be part of this work! Last year’s Overcoming Racism conference was a resounding success. The Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative will be holding the conference again in 2010. The kick-off planning meeting will take place on February 16, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at William Mitchell College of Law (Room 219) and will be facilitated by Rowzat Shipchandler and Barb Rose. We will be starting the meeting at 9:00, so please try your best to be there by then.
To RSVP, please follow this link and fill out the form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFdRVEZnU2lIeXlTRnRVUXJ6bEhWZ1E6MA.
You are kindly requested to park in the overflow lot which is one block east of the college at Summit and Grotto. For directions, please visit: http://www.wmitchell.edu/about/directions.html.
The Collaborative is talking about its future mission and role. This particular meeting will be focused on the conference. We will be further discussing the role of the collaborative at a March 15 meeting.
FREC collaborative members 2009:
- ASDIC Antiracism Study-Dialogue Circle Partnership
- ASDIC FIT Team – Facilitators in Training
- Science Museum of Minnesota
- The Saint Paul Foundation
- Side by Side Associates
- Saint Paul Area Council of Churches
- Cherokee Park United Church
- University of Minnesota
- YWCA of Minneapolis
- Discussions Than Encounter
- Minnesota Department of Human Services
- Civic Media
- Ramsey County
List of collaborative members, partners and sponsors for 2009 conference