Welcoming Gainesville & Alachua County
President: Barbara McDade Gordon, Ph.D.
Email:
Website: https://welcominggainesville.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WelcomingGainesville/
Mission: “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor.”
Welcoming Gainesville & Alachua County, Inc., (WG&AC) is a 501(c)3 registered nonprofit dedicated to making Gainesville, Florida and Alachua County an inclusive community that welcomes immigrants, international students, refugees, and other newcomers to our neighborhood. We a celebrate diversity as a source of strength and innovation. WG&AC is part of the nationwide Welcoming America network. We accomplish our mission by creating and promoting immigrant-friendly policies, communicating welcoming principles and the benefits of inclusion among residents, and organizing programs and events that unite individuals from a variety of backgrounds.
Organization: The Baha’is
Contact: Dr. Taraneh Darabi
Website: https://bahaigainesville.org/
Mission/Purpose:
The purpose of the Baha’is to unify humanity. We are one Human Family is our central focus.
Our local community life centers around four main activities: study circles, devotional gatherings, children's classes, and junior youth empowerment programs. We invite everyone, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity, to study, worship, and work with us to bring into reality the vision of humanity as one global family and the earth as one home.
SF COLLEGE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE NATIONAL ACHIEVERS SOCIETY
SF College Center of Excellence, (SFCOE/National Achievers Society), is a college track program for K-12th grade students and their families under the auspices of the Florida Education Fund (FEF). This group achievement engaged learning model enables students to excel both academically and culturally. Families learn to become active participants and advocates for their children’s education. Faith communities and civic organizations partner with the program*. “Together we learn and grow!” Signature programs sustain academic excellence, promote transformative community service, further cultural awareness and responsive global citizenship.
SFCOE Signature 
Programs:
Brain Bowl Competitions (History and Math)-earn scholarships at Florida colleges and universities
Arts Change Hearts-performing arts promote acceptance and oneness among peoples
Making Awesome Discoveries (MAD)- Summer enrichment program offers STEAM, Coding and SAT/ACT preparation
21st Century Citizenship-addresses food insecurity; health care; digital divide; civic engagement
Program Coordinator/Community Liaison: Harriet McLaughlin Stafford
Website: https://www.sfcollege.edu/nationalachievers/index
http://www.fefonline.org/nas.html
Contact information: 352-381-7086
Suwannee St. Johns Group
Mission
Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Planet
Longer version:
Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth
Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources
Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment
Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives
Mailing address
SSJ Sierra Club
4118 NW 69th St
Gainesville FL 32606
Website: https://www.sierraclub.org/florida/suwannee-stjohns
Organization: Your Black Matters
Founder: Dr. Francesca Fajinmi
Website: https://yourblackmatters.com/
Purpose:
Why “Your Black Matters”?
You will be shocked to realize that every individual, all people, of all race and creed, all over the world, has a black matter. My goal as the founder of Your Black Matters is to use this podcast and the blog to take you through this journey, so you can understand the depth of this phenomenon, be informed about it, and become an active contributor to the new Black relations. The bottom line is that every individual can contribute to the history we area about to write.