Glenrosa Middle School ACES Program

Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries.

International Justice Mission is a human rights organization that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and oppression. A multi-national team of law enforcement professionals and a highly qualified legal staff conduct criminal investigations and collect evidence to rescue victims and bring perpetrators to justice. The work of IJM has been featured on Dateline NBC, in Forbes, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal and other media outlets. IJM was founded by Gary Haugen who served as the Officer in Charge of the U.N. investigation into the Rwandan genocide.

World Vision provides relief, development and advocacy and is dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.

Me to We is a family of social enterprises that is challenging notions of consumption, and redefining the relationship between business and charity. Me to We itself is neither a traditional charity nor an ordinary corporation. Our goal is to change the world. We're helping Free The Children become sustainable in their work, supporting them in their goal to end poverty and thus put themselves out of a job.

Invisible Children makes documentaries about war-affected children in east Africa and tour them around the world. They use the power of media to inspire young people to help end the longest running war in Africa.

PBS Frontline microsite on the genocide in Darfur.

BBC microsite on the issue of slavery.

Ms. Farrow is an activist and humanitarian who spoke to our students at We Day. Her website has many current articles on African conflicts and issues.

This is an on-line quiz you can take to see if you have any biases against other group sof people. The direct link doesn't work for some reason so type PROJECT IMPLICIT into Google and it will be the first result you get.

Great site with lots of information and on-line activities to see what you know and learn more about yourself in terms of race. Be sure to try the "Sorting People" activity.

Talks about how people are stereotyped in the media.

Jim Crow was a racist lifestyle that some people subscribed to many years ago. This site is a museum of objects collected from the Jim Crow era. Its an interesting look back and a good tool to teach tolerance and acceptance.

Information on classism.

Many people are not aware that millions of victims of the Holocaust were not Jewish - there were about the five million non-Jewish victims -- usually referred to as "the others". This site contains information about this these victims.