Capacity Building Institute

We help communities better respond to stress and trauma.

Our work

In 2016, Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging received a $5 million grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA). This grant was designed to address trauma in communities affected by racial oppression. 

The project was called Resiliency in Community After Stress and Trauma (ReCAST).

ReCAST identified three goals:

  1. Built greater understanding between City staff, police and the community.
  2. Increase multifaceted, layered responses to trauma.
  3. Promote shared decision making through involvement in budgeting.

To focus on our second goal, we started the Capacity Building Institute (CBI) in 2017.

Award granted

The following groups received our awards:

  • Hersiliency
  • Abdi Ali, LLC
  • Tene Wells Coaching
  • Samuel Simmons Consulting
  • Kente Circle Training Institute
  • People Serving People Charities, Inc.
  • WE WIN Institute, Inc.
  • Living Naturally Abundant

Past vendors for capacity building

We want to thank all the vendors who have helped us provide capacity building opportunities to City staff and residents:

  • Abdi Ali, LLC
  • Abdur Razzaq Counseling and Social Architecture
  • Bridges of Hope Leadership Academy
  • CLUES
  • Cultural Coherence
  • Darris Consulting Group
  • Inspire to Change
  • Irreducible Grace Foundation
  • Justice Leadership Solutions
  • Kente Circle Training Institute
  • Liberty Community Church
  • Living Naturally Abundant

More past vendors for capacity building

  • Mary Winston
  • Minnesota Peacebuilding Institute
  • NACDI
  • People Serving People
  • Phoenix Rising Collective
  • Rebound
  • Roxanne Anderson
  • Simmons Consulting
  • Tene Wells Coaching
  • Voices for Effective Change
  • Voices for Racial Justice
  • We Win Institute
  • Wilder Foundation

Connect with the right care

We connect communities to care that is in harmony with their cultures. We maintain a Cultural Wellness Directory to do so.
See our directory

Related resources

Videos

CBI: How we got here

Capacity building for staff and community

Division of Race and Equity: Where do we go from here?

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Contact us

Racial Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

Phone

612-673-2870

Address

City Hall
350 S. 5th St, Room 223
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Office hours

8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Monday – Friday

Closed on City holidays

See list of City holidays