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From Conversation to Action

Whether you’re experiencing the museum, attending a community dialogue, booking a team-building workshop, or organizing for justice, our work transforms awareness into action and action into lasting change. 

Our Core Programs

Explore opportunities to learn, connect, and lead change across our anchor initiatives:

Workplace Training with Culture Connections

Workshops that spark empathy, creativity, and courage.

Through facilitated dialogue, Culture Connections invites groups to confront bias, sit with discomfort, and build shared understanding. Each session inspires personal reflection and community accountability.

Who It’s For –

  • Corporate Teams – Culture learning that equips and inspires people to work together with purpose and impact.
  • Schools – Empathy-building experiences aligned with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) standards.
  • Nonprofits – Brave, supportive spaces for honest dialogue and meaningful growth.
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Truth + Transformation

Confront the Past. Mobilize the Future.

Truth & Transformation is a national initiative that supports racial healing. We center truth-telling, historical reckoning, and civic renewal. Inspired by community-led justice, we partner with cities to co-create local change.

Ways to Get Involved –

  • Sponsor – Fuel justice-centered programming.
  • Host – Bring Truth + Transformation to your city.
  • Volunteer – Lend your time and voice.
  • Attend – Show up and be part of the conversation.

 

Featured Truth & Transformation Efforts –

Forced Labor Memorialization

Honoring those forced into unpaid labor after emancipation, this project connects local histories of injustice to present-day advocacy and repair.

Racial Terror Awareness

This project uncovers and uplifts the stories of those impacted by racial terror. It asks us to remember not just as history, but as a moral imperative.

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LGBTQ+ Institute

Belonging Is a Human Right.

The LGBTQ+ Institute empowers queer voices through advocacy, research, and pride. We elevate LGBTQ+ stories, advance intersectional research, and champion policies that protect and affirm queer lives. Rooted in community, we create pathways for dialogue, leadership, and collective action to drive lasting change.

Key Initiatives –

Bayard Rustin Society –
A giving community advancing LGBTQ+ equity in the legacy of Bayard Rustin’s intersectional activism.

Youth Programs –
Supporting queer youth in the South through education, wellness, and joy-filled leadership development, including IGNYTE Conference.
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Let’s Build a More Just Tomorrow

Our programs meet you where you are and move you toward what’s possible. Whether you’re here to learn, lead, or lift up others, your next step starts now.