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The Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
Launched in 1981, ARC was born out of the community organizing experience. Both activists and academics recognized a need for rigorous study of the practice of organizing and the need for solid research into the issues around which organizers were mounting campaigns.
During the early years ARC worked closely with the Center for Third World Organizing producing publications, offering trainings and embarking upon the Community Strategy and Training Initiative, a model effort to improve the practice of organizing that has since been replicated in several states.
Moving into the 1990s, ARC published Beyond the Politics of Place, a landmark study of community organizing. This report ignited a controversy still raging about the importance of organizing around the identity concerns of the marginalized: people of color, gays and lesbians, and women. For a more recent take on these issues see ARC President Gary Delgado’s article "The Last Stop Sign."
ARC also established RaceFile, which has become a leading reference journal on race and media. In 1998, RaceFile merged with the Center for Third World Organizing`s publication Third Force to create a new magazine exploring issues of race, culture and action, ColorLines.
ARC`s influence grew with the publication of numerous studies of social policy that garnered national media attention extending to the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. ARC also began to incubate other organizations, including Californians for Justice, We Interrupt This Message, and POWER [People Organized to Win Employment Rights], fostering a wide range of initiatives in community organizing.
In the last half of the `90s, ARC established the Racial Justice Leadership Initiative, a groundbreaking: national initiative to encourage popular education within community organizations. It launched the ERASE program to challenge persistent and pervasive racism in US public education. In 2001, it took up the cause of restoring some semblance of a safety net for people in need, beginning WARP, the Welfare Advocacy Research Project.
Today ARC is a leading research lab and foundry where academics and activists forge tools to spark social progress and measure the results.
Launched in 1981, ARC was born out of the community organizing experience. Both activists and academics recognized a need for rigorous study of the practice of organizing and the need for solid research into the issues around which organizers were mounting campaigns.
During the early years ARC worked closely with the Center for Third World Organizing producing publications, offering trainings and embarking upon the Community Strategy and Training Initiative, a model effort to improve the practice of organizing that has since been replicated in several states.
Moving into the 1990s, ARC published Beyond the Politics of Place, a landmark study of community organizing. This report ignited a controversy still raging about the importance of organizing around the identity concerns of the marginalized: people of color, gays and lesbians, and women. For a more recent take on these issues see ARC President Gary Delgado’s article "The Last Stop Sign."
ARC also established RaceFile, which has become a leading reference journal on race and media. In 1998, RaceFile merged with the Center for Third World Organizing`s publication Third Force to create a new magazine exploring issues of race, culture and action, ColorLines.
ARC`s influence grew with the publication of numerous studies of social policy that garnered national media attention extending to the front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. ARC also began to incubate other organizations, including Californians for Justice, We Interrupt This Message, and POWER [People Organized to Win Employment Rights], fostering a wide range of initiatives in community organizing.
In the last half of the `90s, ARC established the Racial Justice Leadership Initiative, a groundbreaking: national initiative to encourage popular education within community organizations. It launched the ERASE program to challenge persistent and pervasive racism in US public education. In 2001, it took up the cause of restoring some semblance of a safety net for people in need, beginning WARP, the Welfare Advocacy Research Project.
Today ARC is a leading research lab and foundry where academics and activists forge tools to spark social progress and measure the results.
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