Episcopal Church Foundation Vestry Papers - for leading congregations

Episcopal organizations to learn from:

Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing
The Center for Racial Healing is a collaborative ministry between the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and The Episcopal Church, directed by Dr. Catherine Meeks, that works towards dismantling racism.

The Union of Black Episcopalians
“The Union of Black Episcopalians is a confederation of more than 55 chapters and interest groups throughout the continental United States and the Caribbean with over 200 years of black leadership in the Episcopal Church. The Union empowers its members and local chapters to be agents of justice and transformation.”

Office of Black Ministries – The Episcopal Church
“The Office of Black Ministries seeks to inspire, transform and empower the people of the African Diaspora to live fully into the Jesus Movement.”

Beloved Community Initiative for Racial Justice, Healing, and Reconciliation A mission of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. "The Beloved Community Initiative in Iowa equips people for the lifelong work of growing as a community of reconcilers, justice-makers, and healers. The work for racial justice requires a long-term commitment to change in every aspect of our individual and public lives. Our programs encourage that lifelong work in the areas of truth-telling, proclaiming a vision of justice, practicing the way of love and repairing the systems and institutions that perpetuate injustice."

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Poor People’s Campaign
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is a movement “uniting people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.”

Color of Change
Color of Change “designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champions solutions that move us all forward.”

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
“Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans.”

Equal Justice Initiative
“Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, the Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society. EJI challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal justice system, and creates hope for marginalized communities.”

Showing Up For Racial Justice
“SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.”

Recursos en Español:

SOMOS MÁS. VAMOS A DEMOSTRARLO
Únete a Mijente en la lucha por los derechos, justicia y cambio radical para la comunidad Latinx

Un pacto para arrancar el racismo de raíz por el Obispo Deon K. Johnson de la diócesis episcopal de Missouri

Oficina de las Naciones Unidas del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos
En esta página encontrarás todo sobre los derechos humanos por las Naciones Unidas. Los derechos humanos son derechos inherentes a todos los seres humanos, sin distinción alguna de nacionalidad, lugar de residencia, sexo, origen nacional o étnico, color, religión, idioma o cualquier otra condición. Todos tenemos los mismos derechos humanos, sin discriminación alguna. Estos derechos son interrelacionados, interdependientes e indivisibles.

La oficina de los ministerios latinos-hispanos de la Iglesia Episcopal
Los Ministerios Latinos / Hispanos de la Iglesia Episcopal participan activamente en el Movimiento de Jesús. Apoyamos a las diócesis y a las feligresías mediante la producción de recursos, el desarrollo de redes y la provisión de oportunidades para la formación de líderes laicos y ordenados.

Follow on Social Media:

Oh Happy Dani: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
The art page of Danielle Coke, a young black woman artist who says, “I aim to create art and words that encourage faith, inspire justice, and guide good people through loving God and neighbor well.”

Black Lives Matter: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
This is the official page of Black Lives Matter. “#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.”

No White Saviors: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
No White Saviors is based in Kampala, Uganda and “engages in a global conversation on how we can all do better.”

White Awake: Facebook
White Awake combats white supremacy by focusing on educational resources and spiritual practices designed to engage people who’ve been socially categorized as “white” in the creation of a just and sustainable society.

The Conscious Kid: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
“Research and resources on parenting and education through a critical race lens.”

The Great Unlearn: Instagram
Curated by Rachel Cargle, this page offers monthly self-paced syllabi about race and history.

Center for Antiracist Research: Twitter
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research is directed and founded by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. The Center works to educate, empower, and bring about an antiracist society.

Black Women’s Blueprint: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
A Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, “Black Women’s Blueprint envisions a world where women and girls of African descent are fully empowered and where gender, race and other disparities are erased”.

Grassroots Law Project: Facebook and Instagram
Using grassroots organizing and legal expertise, The Grassroots Law Project aims to reform the American legal system to end abuses of authority used to unjustly injure, arrest, convict, and sentence.