Advancement Project's mission is to develop, pioneer and widely disseminate innovative ideas and models that inspire, encourage and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement. The goal of this movement is to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy for all Americans.
From its inception, the Advancement Project has worked to assist organized communities of color dismantle structural racism that undermines the promise of democracy for all Americans. Advancement Project operates on two planes. First on the local level by providing strategic policy, legal and communications support to organized communities which increase their capacity to identify and address local racial and social injustices. Secondly, working on the national level to expand and replicate lessons learned as a result of work on the ground. Advancement Project uses a model of community-centered racial justice, lawyering through trainings, networking, media outreach, and public education.
Dream Fund Project
Advancement Project's work through the Dream Fund seeks to examine and address structural and institutional exclusion in K-12 education in two school districts where graduation rates of students of color are significantly low. The Fund is supporting Advancement's efforts in Denver, Colorado and Greensboro, North Carolina. To do this work, Advancement has partnered with two local groups, Padres Unidos in Colorado, and Beloved Community Center in North Carolina.
Through these partnerships, Advancement Project hopes to accomplish structural and institutional reform in education, conduct participatory research, public policy and perform a national outreach to disseminate public education materials which expose racial inequities in education and propose solutions.
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