| If racism was constructed, it can be deconstructed. |
| 639 South Green Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336.722.8379 |
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| Our community institutions successfully embrace anti-racist identity and values to end racial disparities, appreciate diversity and practice collaborative efforts of compassion and justice. MISSION The Institute for Dismantling Racism educates, organizes, and supports individuals and teams to develop anti-racist identity, culture, and institutions to end oppression. VALUES Spiritual Grounding While religion has been a tool of oppression, giving legitimacy to systems and institution’s unjust misuse of power, it has also served as sustenance and inspiration for those suffering from racism. We seek all forms & traditions that will deepen commitment to the work. Open & Honest We remain vulnerable to one another, knowing that although racism has taught us to be deceptive to self and others, we need one another for accountability and integrity. Compassionate Practice Our work begins with empathy for those who have been destroyed and wounded by the pathology of racism; first seeking to do no harm as we care for the suffering. Justice Raising compassion to the institutional level – we seek the healing of the institutions and their systems, that they provide equality of access to and equitable distribution of power and resources. Personal Growth All people are in process. No one is finished in the work of becoming whole. We must ever include the work for justice with the task of becoming more whole individuals. Embracing Diversity Beyond tolerating difference, we seek to appreciate our cultural roots and traditions. Transparency In all decision-making, planning, and management of finances, we seek to disclose all information, practice an open process and reach out for input from all members. Collaboration We move the work forward through the use of collective efforts rather than duplicating or competing with other groups or organizations. Abundant Thinking We move the work forward together with the knowing that there are more than enough resources, people and time. History We learn lessons from the past so as not to repeat their patterns; to inspire us, muse to our activism, celebrating the s/heroes that have come before us. Celebration We acknowledge and celebrate ourselves and each other - becoming inspired by who we are being. |
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| Rev. Willard Bass, Jr. Executive Director revwillard.bass@gmail.com Lauranita Katende Program Manager idrassist@gmail.com Jorge Zeballos Community Organizer jorgelzeballos62@gmail.com |
| BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
| Effley Howell Founder The Thankful Heritage Museum Raul Andriano Director Hispanic Ministries Green Street United Methodist Church Mustafa Abdullah CHANGE Organizer Judy A. Greene - Secretary Community Volunteer Bishop Todd Fulton - Treasurer Senior Pastor and Founder Mt. Moriah Outreach Center Quintana Stewart Community Volunteer Tim Monroe Community Volunteer Clyde Godwin Pastor Hope Presbyterian Church Tiffany Baffour PhD., M.A., M.S.S. Associate Professor & Chair Behavioral Sciences & Social Work Winston-Salem State University Rev. Doug Bailey Founder/President Center for Urban Ministry Karen Vallecillo-Pereira T.A.N.F. Program Coordinator YMCA of Northwest NC Mary Ann Blackwell Community Volunteer Barry Boneno Business Owner |
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| Executive Director, Willard Bass, receiving the ECHO Award from the Winston-Salem Foundation. |