At the Center for Preventing Hate, we empower community members with the knowledge that they have the ability to positively impact the culture around them. Our community work is premised on the understanding that when any members of our community are targeted with bias-motivated harassment or violence, none of us are truly safe.

Our Approach

Our approach with all our partners is similar in strategy. First, we gauge the form and impact of bias, harassment and violence. Then, we develop an action plan with our partners to interrupt the pattern of escalation. Finally, our experienced staff implements the plan with our partners and provides on-going support. In communities, the Center’s work with partners has included but not been limited to organizing public rallies following hate crimes, producing reports related to civil rights legislation, writing letters to the editor, and supporting individual testimonies before legislative bodies.

Crisis Response, Research & Advocacy

When hate crimes or incidents of hate occur in communities, the Center acts quickly to guide local leaders in publicly denouncing such acts. Working with youth and adult leaders, the Center has facilitated a range of effective crisis responses, including public rallies, letters to the editor, student service projects and press conferences.  Our purpose is always to help communities convey to perpetrators that their behavior is unacceptable – that the community will not tolerate further acts of hate. The Center’s strategies also serve to support, publicly, members of communities that are targeted by hate.

Special Reports & Projects

Sometimes preventing hate also requires uncovering new information and amplifying the voices of those who have been targeted. We investigate and document bias, harassment and violence targeting community members. We publish summaries and analyses of our findings in reports and offer recommendations for both policy development and outreach programs. To download copies, visit the special reports page.

When issues of bias and harassment extend beyond an isolated incident and continue to affect broad communities, the Center develops extensive multi- year programming with partners in an effort to reverse the escalation of hate.

An example of such a project is the New Migration Project. To learn more how the Center is tackling the rising tide of anti-immigrant bias across the United States, click here.