Sharing Web Resources

The organization I chose was the National Black Child Development Institution. The link to the organization is: http://www.nbcdi.org.

This organization helps with children dealing with poverty and racial barriers have an equal opportunity at education. For over 40 years, the NBCDI has helped bring awareness of issues that effect the black community and child and tries to empower them from things like early childhood education, health, child-welfare, literacy, and family engagement.  The organization was launched by the Black Women’s Community Development Foundation, whose leadership, in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, was deeply concerned about the unsatisfactory conditions faced by families determined to raise healthy Black children.  For 38 years, NBCDI was led by Evelyn K. Moore, who got her start as a teacher in the ground-breaking Perry Pre-school/High Scope program, which became the model for Head Start.(NBCDI, 2013)

A trend that caught my eye about this website is just the overall mission of the site which is culture and diversity of African American children. Learning and understanding how to help them rise above racial differences and to provide ways for them to progress is a very great and essential them and focus of this organization. I also like that within the mission statement, they want ALL children to be successful, not just African American children.

I think this is an amazing website, and there is so much to learn. I feel honored to have stumbled across this website as a resources, and I recommend it to everyone who is an educator and non-educator. It is for everyone who wants to learn about diversity and culture and it is a great resource available to educators to help with teaching young African American children and inclusion of their families within the curriculum.