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From YouTube: Isaac Coleman: Social Justice Community Grants
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This is the full interview for the Isaac Coleman segment in the Buncombe Bulletin episode from May 2021. To view the entire episode, you can visit: https://youtu.be/Ddi1kAm8aE4
A
So
the
isaac
coleman
grants
are
grants
to
nonprofit
organizations
in
our
community
working
to
champion
equitable
opportunity.
The
legacy
of
isaac
coleman
was
about
working
toward
justice,
including
racial
justice,
and
so
these
are
non-profits
that
are
working
for
more
racial
equity
in
the
community
and
they
align
with
our
strategic
plan.
Buncombe
county
is
prioritizing
equity
as
a
organizational
value
and
as
a
foundation
for
how
we
move
forward.
A
Some
of
the
kinds
of
projects
that
have
been
funded
through
isaac
coleman
are
jobs,
programs,
education
and
projects
that
help
create
sense
of
community
and
sense
of
space
and
culture.
So
things
like
community
gardens
and
recreational
and
engagement
opportunities,
isaac,
coleman's
legacy
was
about
justice,
and
these
grantees
really
embody
that
spirit.
B
When
we
talk
about
the
services
that
that
that
they
are
offered
and
the
things
that
the
community
needs
in
order
to
start
healing
and
to
be
better
so
bunker
county
department
of
health
and
human
services,
they
utilize
our
services,
we
have
a
contract
with
them
to
provide
domestic
violence,
intervention
for
offenders
as
well
as
survivors.
We
also
have
a
contract
with
united
way,
where
we
have
a
learning
center,
aka
learning
pod
first
grade
to
12th
grade
to
have
access
to
our
internet,
so
they
can
do
their
virtual
learning.
B
When
we
talk
of
confidence
accomplishments,
it
can
be
looked
at
in
many
different
ways.
You
know
you
can
look
at
the
data
and
see
how
many
people
we've
served
and
that's
great,
because
we've
served
over
270
people,
so
we
can
get
people
in
and
we
can
give
them
the
services,
and
we
have
you
know
about
15
people
who
have
completed
the
peer
support,
training
waiting
on
their
certifications,
which
is
great.
B
We
applaud
that
the
effect
of
what
we're
doing
it
won't
show
for
another
couple
of
years,
because
once
people
start
to
heal,
then
they
can
start
to
feel
then
they
can
start
to
build
and
that's
a
better
life
for
themselves,
their
family,
their
community.
And
that's
what
we're
looking
to
that.
That's
the
real.
B
C
Read
to
succeed
is
a
local
literacy
non-profit.
We
are
on
a
mission
to
close
the
race-based
opportunity
gap
in
our
community
right
here
in
asheville
and
buncombe
county
through
community
power,
literacy
programming
that
involves
children,
their
families
and
our
community
partners.
We
train
volunteers
that
work
one-to-one
with
students
in
kindergarten
to
third
grade
in
supporting
them
and
coming
to
grade
level
with
their
reading,
and
we
also
are
actively
expanding
our
scope
of
work
to
work
with
families
and
community
partners
that
support
children
zero
to
five.
C
C
Reading
is
a
right.
Literacy
is
a
right
and
there's
absolutely
a
way
for
us
to
bridge
the
gap.
So
the
isaac
coleman
grant
specifically
helps
us
look
at
the
opportunity
gap,
which
is
huge
between
black
and
white
students
in
our
community
through
an
equity
lens
right
and
a
literacy
lens
and
so
showing.
If
you
look
at
the
data-
and
we
see
that
around
less
than
a
quarter
of
black
students,
third
to
eighth
grade
are
reading
at
grade
level
compared
to
their
white
counterparts,
which
are
around
80
percent.