Civic Engagement

The 21st Century Partnership Task Force on Diversity called for improving the internal diversity performance of community institutions and ensuring that institutions in the community include diversity as a priority in their own planning and programming. The network of relationships that knit the majority community together should be made accessible to the minority communities in the community as well. Strategies to extend opportunities for greater civic involvement to minorities could include:

• involvement in neighborhood groups,
• appointment to citizen committees serving local government
• recruitment by service clubs
• involvement in non-profit board
• involvement in interest groups such as the League of Women Voters, and
• involvement in committees advising business organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce