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Case Studies

The SYDA Foundation
The SYDA Foundation, a global non-profit educational institute, was looking to explore the issue of diversity in order to implement organizational changes that better supported its core values. World Trust Executive Director, Dr. Shakti Butler first worked with senior management in a number of strategic planning and educational sessions. In these sessions, they viewed the video Light in the Shadows. Then they explored their own feelings and prejudices around race. By setting themselves up as the example, SYDA Management was able to better facilitate and support other people in the organization in embracing diversity.

Dr. Butler also gave several half-day presentations to SYDA staff using the video The Way Home . These presentations were followed up with informal get-togethers with participants to discuss subsequent learning, how they had changed and how that change was reflected in their lives and the organization.

Washington State University
As part of their annual People-of-Color conference across Washington , WSU invited World Trust to give a full day presentation on diversity to over 350 conference attendees. World Trust also facilitated groups of WSU administrators, staff and faculty to look at how to use what they learned about diversity on their respective campuses. Many participants remarked how this was one of the rare times when these groups communicated with one another and were grateful for the opportunity to build their own community.

testimonials

We were fortunate to have been able to telecast The Way Home, produced and directed by Shakti Butler , Executive Director of World Trust. The response to the program was overwhelmingly positive, so much that we aired it twice more, and we would have shown it more had we been able to. This thought-provoking program is unique in that it shows women of different cultural affinities sharing their lives in a way rarely visualized on television. This organization is breaking new ground in ameliorating the history of distrust and misunderstanding amongst the people of this country and the world.
Ashley James,
Station Manager, KTOP/Channel 10; City of Oakland