04/18/2023 MASHPEE INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY COMMITTEE Minutes

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Mashpee Inclusion and Diversity Committee 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, MA 02649 Mr. Kupferman made a reference in the column that he thought today was Holocaust Day in Israel. He also pointed out a great article about Jayden Bryant and her athleticism as a student athlete. Coalition Meeting The Coalition is growing rapidly. They have over 32 committees and still growing. They meet via Zoom. She was invited to speak to Dennis DEI Committee as they are having a hard time getting off the ground. It’s a Committee that is part of the town like Mashpee. They had two concerns, one being how to get people to volunteer and how to get student participation. Ms. Stevenson recruits members for MIDC. From day one MIDC had student ambassadors and that was through the relationship they built with the Human Rights Club through the Academy. It’s also important that the town provide a secretary for note keeping. Ms. Stevenson also got a request from Bourne to help with their Diversity Day. She found an ASL person for Race Amity Day. Human Rights Club – Diversity Day & Who We Are The Human Rights Academy is coming up on May 15, 2023. It’s in Osterville at Cape Cod Academy. It involves training for students on diversity with teens from different high schools all over Cape Cod. The immigrant project went to Provincetown from an introduction that was made at the Human Rights Academy. Who We Are is still going on and right now they are interviewing families, they started with 14 but that number has grown. The Hall of Flags is th being honored May 10 at 5:00pm and there will be a reception. She would like some MIDC members to show up. MASS Cultural Council granted another round for funding. The immigrant project is on the docket for Cotuit Center for the Arts. th Diversity Day at the school was on hold due to COVID. They wanted to do it October 28 th because it’s National Immigrants Day. On Sunday, April 30 a senior project is doing a fundraiser at the Government Tribal Center and members from the Tribe will be cooking some th authentic Wampanoag recipes. That will take place from 12p-4p. On April 29 Barnstable High th School will host a memorial for NAACP for Cape Cod. On May 5 Marie Younger Blackburn and her son are putting together a program called Band Together for Inclusion. That will take th place at 5:00p.m. at the Mashpee Middle High school. June 11 is Race Amity Day from 12p- 4p. Mr. Kupferman’s article also generates money and he donates that back to the Committee. He paid for an advertisement for Race Amity Day. OLD BUSINESS Town Budget and Grants 2