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| Workshops About Oneonta NCBI |
About NCBIThe National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) is a nonprofit leadership training organization based in Washington, D.C. Since 1984, NCBI has been working to eliminate prejudice and intergroup conflict in communities throughout the world. NCBI's proactive approach begins with a corps of community leaders who are taught effective bridge-building skills to combat intergroup conflicts. The local leadership team embodies all sectors of the community, including elected officials, law enforcement officers, government workers, educators, students, business executives, labor union leaders, community activists, and religious leaders. These community leaders work together as a resource team, offering prevention-oriented programs to deal with prejudice and intergroup tensions. Using NCBI tools for working through tough, polarizing intergroup issues, the leadership team is available to intervene in a community when specific intergroup conflicts arise. NCBI has trained leadership teams in a variety of settings, including high schools, colleges and universities, corporations, foundations, correctional facilities, law enforcement agencies, government offices, and labor unions. Currently NCBI has 50 city-based leadership teams, known as NCBI Chapters; 30 organization-based leadership teams, known as NCBI Affiliates; and over 60 college/university-based teams, known as Campus Affiliates. The national news media has reported extensively on the effectiveness of NCBI programs. The Washington Post published a front page story on the significance of NCBI's work with young people. ABC World News featured NCBI as a "program that works." On the anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, The Los Angeles Times published a feature story on NCBI in its Sunday Magazine, citing NCBI's work in Los Angeles as some of the most important anti-racism work being done in the city. Weekly, the newsletter of the National League of Cities, in a special supplement, urged local elected officials to enlist the assistance of NCBI in creating proactive solutions to racial tensions. Stories on the success of NCBI's work have also appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and on National Public Radio. The Oneonta NCBI campus team would like to invite you to join us in our efforts to enhance the college mission to "foster the development of understanding and respect in all members of our College community"
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