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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $5M grant to the Center for Social Solutions (CSS) and nine institutional partners as part of the Foundation’s ‘Just Futures’ initiative. Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions, emerges from the Center’s focus on slavery and its aftermath and is informed by three generations of humanistic scholarship and what that scholarship suggests for all seeking just futures.
The Crafting Democratic Futures (CDF) Project is a three-year initiative that will bring together colleges and universities around the country with communities to develop suggestions for racial reparations solutions. The Center will undertake the ambitious and timely project in concert with eleven additional partners:
Our Partners
Crafting Democratic Futures is proud to collaborate with several institutions from across the country for this groundbreaking project.
Carnegie Mellon University
Connecticut College
Concordia College
Emory University
Rutgers University Newark
Spelman College
University of Michigan
Wesleyan College
Wofford College
WQED
The Council of Independent Colleges
Latest News
- CDF Newsletter: March 2022
Dear CDF teams, It is the third week of March… Continue reading CDF Newsletter: March 2022 - MLive: A ‘look back’ and a ‘look forward’: Washtenaw County committee studying reparationsWASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – For eight months, an internal Washtenaw… Continue reading MLive: A ‘look back’ and a ‘look forward’: Washtenaw County committee studying reparations
- CDF Newsletter: February 2022Dear CDF teams, Happy February! It’s been a while since… Continue reading CDF Newsletter: February 2022