Researchers
Foundations
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One of the Aetna Foundation's grant programs focuses on disparities in health and seeks to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care through an integrated business and philanthropic approach. These efforts include the enhancement of cultural competency, voluntary data collection, collaboration with national experts to develop outreach programs, and partnerships with the nonprofit sector.
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The African-American Mosaic provides a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the study of Black History & Cultures.
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association site offers various projects that teach about understanding race and human variation.
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations site serves as a vehicle through which users can easily access the information needed to better serve the health needs of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. The site includes a health and literature database.
Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity
The Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity is a multidisciplinary, collaborative venture to produce research, research-based policy prescriptions, and curricular innovation on issues of racial and ethnic justice in California and the nation. The Warren Institute's mission is to engage the most difficult topics related to civil rights, race and ethnicity in a wide range of legal and public policy subject areas, providing valuable intellectual capital to public and private sector leaders, the media and the general public, while advancing scholarly understanding.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
One the research priorities of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is in the area of Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
The mission of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is to inform and illuminate the nation's major public policy debates through research, analysis, and information dissemination in order to improve the socioeconomic status of black Americans and other minorities; expand their effective participation in the political and public policy arenas; and promote communications and relationships across racial and ethnic lines to strengthen the nation's pluralistic society.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The major focus of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation has supported funding in the area of minority health and race, ethnicity, and medical care. The site also includes a tutorial on race, ethnicity, and health care.
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The MacArthur Foundation is funding a new project on Building the Field of Digital Media & Learning, which will focus on understanding the impact of the widespread use of digital media on our youth and how they learn. One of the core issues facing young people in the digital world that will be explored will include race and ethnicity.
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The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide and provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.
NAACP's Research, Advocacy, and Training Division
One of the NAACP's purposes is to intensify the Association's research-based approach to advocacy by providing quantitative and qualitative data, research, and measurable advocacy tools to support the NAACP's six advocacy areas - Health, Civic Engagement, Education, Economic Empowerment, Criminal Justice, and International Affairs.
National Congress of American Indians
In 2003, NCAI launched a national Policy Research Center which was designed to collect, coordinate, and make available information, data, and analyses that are pertinent to public policy decisions.
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The mission of the Pew Hispanic Center is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. The Center conducts and commissions studies on a wide range of topics with the aim of presenting research that both meets the most rigorous scientific standards and is accessible to the interested public. The Center also regularly conducts public opinion surveys that aim to illuminate Latino views on a range of social matters and public policy issues.
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The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations. PRB also focuses its work around four core themes: Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Population and the Environment; and Population Futures--Aging, Inequality and Poverty, Migration and Urbanization, and Gender.
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
The primary mission of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council is to help connect social scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality.
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The main goal of the Russell Sage Foundation is to conduct and disseminate social science research while improving the social effectiveness of such research. Two of their research programs focus on Cultural Contact (investigating how well U.S. institutions are managing to respond to the growing diversity of the American population) and on Immigration.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is devoted to improving health and health care. One of their areas of interest is examining and working toward eliminating the gaps in health care experienced by racial and ethnic minorities.
The Urban Institute, Center on Labor, Human Services & Population
The Center on Labor, Human Services & Population analyzes employment and income trends, studies how the U.S. population is growing and changing, and evaluates programs dealing with homelessness, child welfare, and job training. The center also works within the areas of immigration and race/ethnicity/gender.
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The Third Millennium Foundation's principal goal is to support initiatives designed to promote tolerance among the young. Its work is focused on developing young children's understanding of and respect for the differences that exist between themselves and others, especially those related to culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and socioeconomic status.
Definitional Sites
National Health Interview Survey Race and Hispanic Origin Information
The purpose of this site is to provide users of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) with in-depth information on race and Hispanic origin, two of the most salient demographic variables that are collected in the survey.
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The U.S. Census Bureau's Race and Ethnicity Web page offers information about Census bureau data relevant to issues of race and ethnicity.
National Center for Education Statistics
The link below provides a listing of various National Center for Education Statistics datasets resulting from a keyword search on race and ethnicity at the NCES Web site.
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The American Indian Health Web site includes definitional and data listings on American Indian Health from of the Office of Indian Health.
