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Web site: www.irpumn.org |
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Mission: The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP) investigates the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people of color and the disadvantaged. A core purpose of IRP’s work is to ensure that people have access to opportunity. Another is to help the places where people live to develop in ways that both promote access to opportunity and help maintain regional stability. |
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Description: The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP) was founded by john a. powell in 1993 at the University of Minnesota Law School, and is currently directed by Myron Orfield. For over a decade, the Institute has focused its efforts on creating greater understanding of racialized poverty and changing policies and practices that affect the well-being of low-income communities of color. This is not a goal that can be accomplished independently. Thus the Institute collaborates with many advocacy groups and community organizations, national, state and local government officials, as well as faith-based, philanthropic, and business leaders, and media representatives. |
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Resources to Share: Projects Page of the Institute on Race & Poverty Representative studies:
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