Oregon Humanities

Oregon Humanities Awards $1,000 Grant for Forum on Race and Community Development

Take III Outreach will screen film and host panel discussion.

12 January 2011 | Permalink

More than forty years after the civil rights movement, the average African American family has just one-eighth the wealth of the average white American family, and much of the disparity is due to differences in housing. Oregon Humanities has awarded a $1,000 Responsive Program Grant to Take III Outreach for its forum exploring the role of race in community development.

The forum, The Power of an Illusion, on will be held January 29 at noon in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist Church, 3138 N. Vancouver Ave., Portland.

The PBS documentary short film The House We Live In, which explores the historical development of the idea of “whiteness” and the advantages conferred on some groups by certain institutions and policies, will be screened. A panel discussion featuring Adrienne Livingston, executive director of the Black United Fund of Oregon, and J.W. Matt Hennessee, former chair of the Portland Development Commission, will follow the film. For more information on Take III Outreach and the Power of an Illusion forum, please contact Sherman Burrell at (503) 227-3389.

For more information on Oregon Humanities Responsive Program Grants, contact Annie Dubinsky, Program Coordinator, (503) 241-0543 / (800) 735-0543 ext. 116, or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Oregon Humanities awards Responsive Program Grants of up to $1,000 on a rolling basis to nonprofit organizations in Oregon. Responsive Program Grants fund programs that are not part of an organization’s regular programming, in response to pressing, current issues or events that the applicant is uniquely qualified to help the public explore.