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The printing cost for the Building Bridges Resource Guide was donated by Middleham (for
the first and second edition) and the Community Mediation Center (for the third revision).

Steps Action(s)
Find Out Who’s Our committee members had already partnered with a number of
Doing the Work these groups through the years, so we had a head start. Watch the
local papers. Do an internet search. Check with the local library –
they’re often tied into an amazing amount of information about
what’s going on in the community.
Confirm Points of Community advocacy groups are often short staffed and under-
Contact resourced. Be persistent in contacting the PoC to confirm. If you
can’t make contact, look for others in the organization who may
point you in the right direction.
Provide Brief Be very brief! Get this from the PoC if possible. If you have to
Summary Information draft it or edit it, try to confirm that they agree with what you
on the Groups’ Focus have.
Format the Document It will help if the format provides a ready reference, easy-to-
access in the home office or kitchen. We printed the resource
guide in half-page booklet form for the event and full size for our
website and email distribution.

Clearinghouse Web Site

As our planning committee made connections and gathered more and more information, we
saw the need to make that information readily available to our community. We thought it
important to share information not only about our program, but on events and initiatives
championed by our partners and others related to dismantling race and privilege in our
community. Two of our planning committee members again stepped forward with the skills
to put a web site together for us. The result was The Big Conversation Dismantling Racism
and Privilege Clearing House (https://dismantleracism.org/). The cost for the website
domain was donated by our web developer and steering committee member.

Steps Action(s)
Establish Web Site There are enough people that have the technical skills to do this.
Hopefully you, like we, will have one of them on your planning
committee or readily accessible to you.
Determine Desired Figure out what you want to share and what you don’t want to
Content and Layout share. Who will control the site and who may contribute to the
of Site site? Our first priority was to do outreach for our Dismantling
Racism events and to share information gathered during the
programs. We wanted to make the Building Bridges Resource
Guide readily available. And we wanted to share information and
resources that we gained as we planned and conducted our
programs.

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