Break through compassion fatigue!

Your cause is important! But let’s face it, people have compassion fatigue. With the information overload we all experience, you’ve got to be creative in how you let people know about your organization’s good work. A story well told can be the answer to gaining the attention your organization deserves!

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Tell your organization’s STORY

I had the pleasure of teaching STORY POWER at the Community Media Workshop’s “Making Media Connections” Day. Whether you’re a business or non-profit, take the time to create your organization’s story.

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Go hear stories this summer!

There are Storytelling Festivals all over the United States this summer – go have a great time and remember how much you enjoy LIVE entertainment!

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Young people want to be involved!

I had the chance to work with wonderful young people this summer in the Chicago Peacebuilder Program. Whenever people say “young people don’t care anymore” I wonder what young people are they talking about? Given half a chance young people are ready to be active citizens and work for justice and opportunity for all.

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Seminar enlarges ideas on diversity

At a recent O’Halloran Diversity Productions/Bea Young Associates seminar, Kellie Henegar reminds us that diversity is larger than race and gender. She describes the “culture shock” of moving from military to civilian life.

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Everyday folks discuss racism

To keep celebrating the GRAND OPENING of this new blog and my teachers’ diversity online course, I’m giving you a taste of one of the offerings from the www.inspireaclassroom.com (teachers’) website. Whether you’re a teacher or not, you might want to listen to these videos of people from all walks of life talking about race, diversity and inclusion. If you’d like to purchase for yourself or would like to gift a teacher you know to have in his/her classroom, go to:

http://inspireaclassroom.com/?page_id=20

Here’s your preview of what’s called the “Discussion Videos” in my diversity/inclusion curriculum “Kaleidoscope: Valuing Differences and Creating Inclusion” (Remember my video host, Blip TV, runs ads at the beginning of the video. I’m not endorsing any of their advertisers. It will take app. 10 seconds for the “Discussion Video Promo” to load):

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Launch Special – Sneak preview of RaceVoices.com

This is a special week – launching this new blog site and a new diversity online program for teachers at www.inspireaclassroom.com

To celebrate this GRAND OPENING I want to give you a sneak preview of a new site we’re launching in 2010 called RaceBridgesVideo.com. This site co-produced with Angels Studio will be a mini-JustStories Festival online: 5 minute or so stories about cultural bridgebuilding.

Here’s a short clip from my one-woman show “Dividing Lines: The Education of a Chicago White Girl in 10 Rounds”. The quality of the video will be much better on the RaceBridges Videos site, but you can get an idea of what we’re up to. If you haven’t already, make sure you sign up for our list so you can get announcements about these and other upcoming activities.

(For those of you not familiar with You Tube or Blip TV, they host your video – thus, saving you space on your computer – but they put advertisements on to pay for their site. I’m not promoting any of these products. It takes 5-15 seconds for my video to load. You can “x” the ads out as you watch my videos. Thanks.)

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