The Community Inclusion panel of the Cincinnatus Association was pleased to announce today that the Stephen H. Wilder Foundation has agreed to provide a $4,000 grant for the follow-up to the ground-breaking study of Stable Integrated Communities.

The additional grant money will be used to develop a means to appropriately celebrate the achievements of the SICs throughout Hamilton County, with a view to inspiring others to attempt to do the same and indicating what has been found to work successfully toward that end.

Previously, the Community Inclusion Panel, with the assistance of the Wilder Foundation, coordinated a study of Stable Integrated Communities, developing a foundation to address issues of institutionalized racism in neighborhood integration and justice administration.  The study, whose results were released in 2007, found 14 Greater Cincinnati communities that have been integrated for over 20 years.  The researchers examined statistics on racial change and talked in depth with residents to learn more about their success in maintaining diversity and the challenges they face.  The text of the study report can be viewed through this website.