During this season of giving and new year 2025, Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition is looking to you to help us continue the important work we are doing as we “lay the groundwork to eradicate racism.” We are now fully engaged in the Education Committee’s MV Living Legends: Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Elders Oral
Call them “sessions” or call them “parties, come for the uplifting experience — knowing that we can, indeed, make a difference in swing states by our get-out-the-vote campaign that promises to exceed 10,000 postcards just after Labor Day! Combined with the same efforts by similar groups across the country, these grassroots postcarding efforts by Keep
The Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition, in partnership with the Martha's Vineyard Museum, will kick off its annual Truth & Joy Celebration on July 18th at 5 PM, with a one-hour concert featuring the fabulous voice of guest star: Theresa Thomason. Theresa is well known for her superb performances internationally and will bring us together with
Did you know there are many BIPOC-owned (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) businesses right here on Martha's Vineyard? Many of them are listed on the Martha's Vineyard Black-Owned Business Directory. Your support of Black-owned businesses contributes to the growth of our local economy and helps sustain a diverse and inclusive community. This Black History
Jocelyn Coleman Walton and Andy Italiano represented MVDC at the MV Regional High School's Change Makers Fair on November 29, 2023!
Following his untimely resignation as Chair of the MVDC Board of Trustees due to failing eyesight, Dr. Walter Collier, revered co-founder of Friends For Life which became the Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition, has been named Chair Emeritus by unanimous acclamation of the Trustees. This honorary title will permit him to continue to have an impact
Fiscal sponsorship provides financial services and avoids infrastructure costs Martha’s Vineyard Diversity Coalition (MVDC) has entered into a Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with the Martha’s Vineyard Community Foundation* (MVCF). This arrangement allows MVDC to avoid infrastructure costs associated with with financial management and control of funds raised by MVDC for its Projects and Programs. This helps
Following the development of an organizational infrastructure and the establishment of its first projects and committees in 2020, the Diversity Coalition recognized that its maturation warranted an initiative toward legal incorporation. With the pro bono legal assistance of Jay F. Theise, Esq. of Aquinnah, incorporation as a Massachusetts Charitable Trust was accomplished in November of
First, thank you for taking the time to be on the right side. As it has been in past times of tribulation, goodness needs nurturing and all of its related intentions need cultivation. Injustice must eventually, even if only in micro increments, yield to hopeful and persistent action. Time is fleeting but it is on
