For Your Community

We have more than a 20-year history of engaging with communities across Mississippi and beyond. Reach out for more information if you are interested in bringing our community and capacity building process to your community.

If you’re interested in our team working with your organization, go to our For Your Organization page.

What Have Community Partners Done?

• Public ceremonies to acknowledge painful racial histories in ways that encourage the community to learn and grow together
• Oral history projects on the racial history of the community
• Civil rights driving tours, memorial highways, and historic markers of significant civil rights or African-American history (often done in conjunction with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi Freedom Trail that is part of the Mississippi Development Authority’s Tourism Division)
• After-school and summer mentoring and tutoring programs for children
• The creation of a local “Excel by Five” program to support pre-K education of area children
• Civil and human rights curricula in local schools that include after-school programs and oral history projects. Local student test scores have improved, as have graduation rates
• The creation of a local integrated community choir to perform at community events
• Scholarships for local children to enroll in previously unaffordable summer enrichment programs
• The restoration of a significant civil rights historical landmark, which has also spurred new business in the surrounding area
• Development of a city/county/university coalition that created affordable housing options and homeowner training
• Playgrounds in neighborhoods that had none
• Community gardens
• A rural youth community center with computer labs, a library, and arts programs
• The creation of civil rights collections in local libraries
• Community cleanups and beautification efforts
• The creation of a coalition of local nonprofits on the MS Gulf Coast that works together to coordinate social justice related programs
• My Brother’s Keeper programming for mentoring young boys of color
• Teachers’ summits on how to teach civil rights history and multicultural curriculum development
• Social events such as ice creams socials and potlucks that make an effort to have large interracial social gatherings

Community Partners

The Alluvial Collective has partnered with communities and organizations in and around Mississippi and the southern United States, in corners of the U.S., and as far away as Northern Ireland and South Africa.

To speak with us about your community, contact April Grayson, our director of Community & Capacity Building, using the contact form below.