Anima Organizational Partnerships

Anima Leadership is proud to announce our organizational partnerships with two national level organizations committed to education as a force for an equitable, sustainable and peaceful future.

Canadian Race Relations Foundation

CRRF is a Crown Corporation that operates at arms-length from the federal government. An outcome of the 1988 Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement, the mandate of the CRRF is to fight racism in Canada. CRRF is recognized as a Canadian leader in policy development, research and education offering innovative solutions to combating racism in all its forms. CRRF has worked extensively nationally, including work on public interest remedies by the provincial Human Rights Commissions and was a partner to the federal government’s Racism Free Workplace Strategy. For more details on CRRF, please visit their website: www.crr.ca.

CRRF and Anima Leadership are joining forces to offer the Equity Institute, an incredibly unique experiential training process that integrates diversity issues with emotional intelligence and conflict resolution. The Equity Institute will be offered at different venues across Canada over the next year.

United World Colleges of the Netherlands

United World Colleges (UWC) of the Netherlands is part of a global educational movement started in the 1960s which brings together students from all over the world, regardless of their ability to pay. The UWC mission is to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. The UWC network has over ten colleges around the world including in Canada, the US, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Costa Rica. UWC Netherlands is currently in negotiations with the Dutch government, as well as other prominent European organizations, to open a UWC college in the Netherlands in 2009.

UWC Netherlands and Anima Leadership jointly offer the Youth Leadership Summit each summer in the Netherlands for European youth. Based on Anima Leadership’s unique program methodology (see ALIVE Program for Youth), this effective and transformational program is designed to support diverse youth in becoming future leaders on integration and cross-cultural issues. July, 2008 marks this program’s forth year anniversary!