BRIDGES equips people with awareness, skills, and opportunities to develop relationships that will engage and transform our region into a more equitable and just community.

 Equity Leadership

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BRIDGES 2010 Report to the Community

BRIDGES has been our region’s leading human relations organization since 1944 and is a founding member of the National Federation for Just Communities, a coalition of like-minded organizations working across America to bring the values of diversity, inclusion and social justice to our communities, schools, workplaces and institutions.

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BRIDGES Believes

•That we all belong to a vulnerable population.
•Everyone leads in creating a more welcoming and inclusive environment.
•Everyone has gifts, talents, and assets to contribute.
•Making people feel connected, capable, and contributing is the foundation of a more welcoming and inclusive community.
•That for change to occur, awareness must happen on the internal, interpersonal and institutional levels.
•In challenging people to think, not telling them what to think.
•Our changing demographics require that we acknowledge and engage in a way that reflects the racial diversity in our region, Our issues are not just Black or White.
•Our work lies at the intersection of the -isms. Our challenges are complex and interconnected.
•In the platinum rule-"treat others the way THEY want to be treated."
•Diversity happens, inclusion is a choice.

"Cincinnati is not isolated from the broader demographic forces that are creating a nation where racial, ethnic, religious, and other types of diversity are all increasing and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future."