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september 28, 2016 - Nissan
Nissan Foundation grant supports unique civil rights training for Nashville law enforcement agencies
- Historical framework used as gateway to productive conversations with law enforcement and an increasingly diverse population
- Nissan continues its 24-year long commitment to fostering cultural diversity
- Nissan Foundation recently awarded $700,000 in grants to nonprofits supporting the breakdown of societal barriers and building inclusive communities
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The #nissan Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Nashville Public Library Foundation (NPLF) to support expansion of the Nashville Public Library's (NPL) unique civil rights training partnership with law enforcement agencies, including the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD).
The NPL's "Civil Rights and a Civil Society: Civil Rights Training for Nashville Enforcement Agencies and Beyond" originated as a partnership between NPL and MNPD in 2015 for new officer trainees and has since expanded to include other entities, such as school groups.
"The #nissan Foundation is proud to support NPLF and NPL's mission to enrich lives and open doors to new ways of understanding our neighbors and the world we live in," says Scott Becker, senior vice president, Administration, #nissan North America and President, #nissan Foundation.
The library's civil rights program uses the NPL Civil Rights Room's archival images, oral histories and film footage from Nashville's civil rights history as a gateway to productive conversations about today's prevailing issues affecting law enforcement and the city's increasingly diverse population. Through this historical framework, participants discuss today's complex community dynamics in an environment that encourages open conversation and greater understanding. The NPL's civil rights programming would not be possible without generous gifts to the NPLF from community partners like the #nissan Foundation, indicates Tari Hughes, NPLF president.
"We thank #nissan for its support of Nashville Public Library's programming to cultivate a more inclusive and tolerant Nashville," says Hughes. "We are honored to be selected as one of the leading culturally diverse and relevant programs in a community that serves as a home to Nissan's U.S. operations."
The next session of the civil rights training program will be offered at the NPL the week of September 26.
MEDIA NOTE: The #nissan Foundation today released a video about the NPL's civil rights training program. It features interviews with Andrea Blackman, the NPL's Special Collections Division Manager; Tari Hughes, NPLF President; MNPD Chief Steve Anderson; and Vicki Smith, Nissan's Senior Manager, #corporate Social Responsibility and Executive Director of the #nissan Foundation, about how the training came to be. It also features an interview with MNPD officer Nakia Reid, who shares the valuable learnings she took away from a recent training session. Video link available here.
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