Alliance Institute hosted its first Community Involvement Convening on May 11-13, 2016 in Gulfport, MS. Funded by the Gulf Health Outreach Program (GRHOP), the convening brought together community organizations from across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida to network, build programming skills, and to focus on collaborative strategies to expand their varied initiatives.
Monday, August 24, 2015 marks the beginning of a week of activities in commemoration of the devastation that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in the form of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, the magnificent jewel of the coast, was and, is the epicenter of attention by the media (and by default the American …
Much ado has been made in our post-racial America about the use of code words to mask the true racial undercurrent. You know, urban and inner-city when what is meant is Black. We see it all the time and the only novelty these days is that we are now post-racial and supposedly beyond such things. …
In late June, I participated in NPN’s Equity Breakfast discussion about equity, inclusion and economic growth in the City of New Orleans. Interestingly enough, just about a week later I moderated a town hall panel discussion on Inclusion in the Silicon Bayou as part of the Essence Festival’s #YesWeCode Hackathon. The focus of the hackathon …
A few weeks ago Alliance Institute partnered with Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training (VIET) to put on a health fair. A primary focus of the fair was the introduction of four of our other partners that are bringing health services to New Orleans East; a community with the highest density of Vietnamese families in the …
Why Jasmine Rice? (A Lesson in Culturally Competent Organizing) Read More »
Around 1997-1998 I was introduced to the internet; prior to that, I considered the internet to be some white people stuff (note: at the time, I didn’t use the term stuff). Once I’d been exposed, I became evangelistic about letting everyone I knew that they had to get online or get left behind. Roughly around …
