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Stronger Relationships, Stronger Communities: Lessons From a Regional Intergroup Grant Initiative
Author(s) -
Lee Kien S.,
Calvin James R.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-006-9050-7
Subject(s) - immigration , demographics , latin americans , health psychology , political science , race (biology) , power (physics) , sociology , public administration , gender studies , public health , demography , medicine , law , physics , nursing , quantum mechanics
This paper tells the story of an intergroup grant initiative and the neighborhood projects it supported. It highlights the challenges of race and power, in conjunction with other overlapping identities and forms of discrimination. The demographics of the greater Goodland region have changed dramatically over the last few years and decades. The life for traditionally European American and African American communities is being altered by a steady influx of new immigrants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This paper discusses a philanthropic community's response to these changes and within this, two specific neighborhood‐based responses. The lessons and insights described in this paper, told by the initiative's evaluator and advisory council co‐chair, are drawn from five years' of systematic data collection and analysis, focused observations, and the reflections of other participants in the initiative.