Roundtable on Community Change
(formerly Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families)
Introduction
The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change focuses on the problems of distressed communities and seeks solutions to individual, family, and neighborhood poverty. We carry out this mission in several ways. We convene leaders across key sectors and provide a safe environment for them to examine and develop ways to address issues of common concern. We conduct applied and policy research on critical challenges facing the field of community change. We serve as a technical advisor to leaders who are actively engaged in activities designed to improve outcomes for low-income children, youth and families. And, we distill lessons in the field nationally and internationally. We utilize a number of strategies to advance the field such as leadership development seminars, publications, public speaking, and websites.
Since its establishment in 1992, the Roundtable has sought to synthesize and convey lessons learned in Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), and to connect the theory and practice of community building with the broader goals of social and economic justice. Most recently, the Roundtable has developed and imparted strategies for addressing structural racism through seminars with practitioners within the community building field, and in other sectors, such as government, philanthropy, youth-serving organizations, media outlets, departments of education, human services, universities, and corporations.
Complete list of the Roundtable's Publications
Current Projects and Programs
The Roundtable's work focuses on two areas: (1) Community Change and (2) Structural Racism.
Community Change: The Roundtable distills lessons from initiatives that address poverty on a community level. We conduct research on cross-cutting themes and new evaluation approaches in community change efforts. In addition, the Roundtable manages the Community Building Resource Exchange--a database of publications and other research on community building initiatives. For more information on these projects, follow the links below:
Structural Racism: The term structural racism refers to the system in which public policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other norms work in various, often reinforcing ways to perpetuate racial group inequity. The Roundtable's Project on Structural Racism and Community Building aims to dismantle structural racism through the Racial Equity and Society Seminar series and research on youth development and criminal justice. In order to build a community of practice and provide ongoing support for Seminar participants, the Roundtable has created the Racial Equity and Society Peer Learning Forum. In addition, the Roundtable serves as a clearinghouse for key resources on racism, racial disparity, and racial equity. For more information on the Roundtable's Structural Racism work, follow the links below:
For more information, contact:
The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change
281 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Tel: (212) 677-5510
Fax: (212) 677-5650
ivettcl@aspenroundtable.org
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