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PRRAC: Connecting Research to Advocacy
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) is a civil rights policy organization
convened by major civil rights, civil liberties, and anti-poverty groups in 1989-90. PRRAC's
primary mission is to help connect advocates with social scientists working on race and poverty
issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on structural inequality issues. PRRAC
sponsors social science research, provides technical assistance, and convenes advocates and
researchers around particular race and poverty issues. PRRAC also supports public education
efforts, including the bimonthly newsletter/journal Poverty & Race, and the award-winning
civil rights history curriculum guide, Putting the Movement Back Into
Civil Rights Teaching (co-published with Teaching
for Change). At the present time, PRRAC is pursuing project-specific work in the
areas of housing, education, and health, focusing on the importance of "place" and the continuing
consequences of historical patterns of housing segregation and development for low income families
in the areas of health, education, employment, and incarceration. PRRAC's work is informed by an
extensive national network of researchers, organizers, attorneys, educators, and public health and
housing professionals.
PRRAC has received financial support from hundreds of individual donors, as
well as from the Rockefeller, Ford, W. K, Kellogg, Taconic, Irvine, C.S. Mott, Annie E. Casey, Levi
Strauss, Morton K and Jane Blaustein, Spencer, George Gund, Albert List, Fannie Mae, Boehm, AMJ,
Tides, Caroline & Sigmund Schott, Nathan Cummings, Joyce, Abell, Akonadi, New World, Hartford Courant, and Freddie
Mac Foundations, the Impact Fund, The Open Society Institute, Working Assets
Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, Funding Exchange, the Lindheim
Memorial Trust, The Krieger Fund, and The Baltimore Community Foundation.
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