In 2021, Northwestern launched the Racial Equity and Community Partnership grants program, a set of grants focused on supporting ideas that work toward making our communities more equitable.
“Our first year of grant-funded projects is already making a positive impact in communities across Evanston and Chicago,” said Dave Davis, executive director of the Office of Community and Neighborhood Relations. “This program demonstrates how partnerships between Northwestern and community-based organizations benefit both and create deeper ways to address racial equity.”
This year, there will be nine associated grants aimed at having a structural impact on racial equity in Evanston and Chicago. Latino and Latina Studies at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is directly linked to a partnership with the Mudlark Theater, a performing arts center based in Evanston.
The partnership will help with “creating bilingual identity-based curricula with Latinx youth, educators, performers, and scholars, based on diasporic performance traditions.”
Learn more in Northwestern Now’s new article, “Racial Equity and Community Partnership grants awarded.”