About Us
Diversity Focus team participating
in Stella’s Parade. Other community
participants included Cedar Rapids
Freedom Festival Staff and both
the local Police and Fire Departments.
Many organizations in our community support diversity. However, our communities will progress and grow more quickly if we work together to draw from the vast cultural experiences we have here, in eastern Iowa, and look to other areas of the country and world to expand our focus.
To spearhead this activity, Diversity Focus was proposed and then established in 2005 as a new entity to integrate and coordinate existing efforts as well as identify or create other activities and programs.
Diversity Focus is a non-profit organization devoted to enhancing the diversity of the Cedar Rapids – Iowa City corridor with the following goals:
- Communication - promote awareness and an image in the community that diversity is valued
- Information Clearinghouse - create a resource center that leverages the many products, capabilities and work of organizations supporting diversity
- Program Enhancement - advance new ideas and opportunities to build a more diverse community
The world is flat, as author Thomas Friedman says. Ideas and customs move across the world almost seamlessly now. At Diversity Focus, we welcome the challenge to highlight the diversity we have right here and use it to help the community grow and embrace the future.