Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund

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The Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund

The Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance for those who wish to participate in Doing Our Own Work: A Seminar for Anti-Racist White People and other continuing education programs offered for graduates of Doing Our Own Work.

The Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund was established in 2009 by a generous gift from Dawn Mead in honor of Ann Flescher’s abiding passion for racial justice and her love of facilitating the Doing Our Own Work seminar.

We invite you to support the Doing Our Own Work program by making a tax deductible contribution to the Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund.

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Your contribution to the Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund will provide scholarship assistance to new participants in the Doing Our Own Work programs.

Make checks payable to “RCWMS,” write on the memo line: “Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund,” and send to:

Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund
c/o RCWMS
1202 Watts Street
Durham, NC 27701

You may also donate online with a credit card through The Resource Center for Women in Ministry in the South (RCWMS) and designate the Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund.

RCWMS serves as fiscal agent for the Ann E. Flescher Scholarship Fund. The mission of RSWMS is to weave feminism and spirituality into a vision of justice for the world.

If you have any questions, please e-mail Melanie Morrison, Executive Director of Allies for Change, or call 989-855-2277.

Doing Our Own Work:
A Seminar for Anti-Racist White People

For 16 consecutive years, Doing Our Own Work has provided a unique and innovative context for white people who seek to deepen their commitment to confronting and challenging racism. Hundreds of people, from communities all across North America, have taken part in this intensive seminar. Offering more than 40 hours of “class time,” Doing Our Own Work equips white people with the analysis, skills, and tools needed to be more effective anti-racist allies with people of color and to help bring about institutional change. Doing Our Own Work is designed as a supplement to, not a substitute for, contexts where people of diverse races discuss and strategize together how racism can be challenged.

Doing Our Own Work is a program of Allies for Change, an organization providing anti-oppression education, training, and resources for individuals and organizations committed to social change.

For additional information and dates of upcoming seminars, see our calendar, e-mail Melanie Morrison, or call 989-855-2277.

Ann Ellen Flescher

(1958 – 2008)

Ann E. Flescher’s deep and abiding passion for justice can best be summed up in the Hebrew phrase tikkun olam – repair of the world. She worked for 16 years as a social worker, counselor, and administrator at the Michigan State University Counseling Center. For more than a decade, Ann was also intimately involved in the Doing Our Own Work anti-racism seminar for white allies, first as a participant and then as a facilitator and trainer. In addition to co-facilitating the Doing Our Own Work seminars, she helped to design and lead the first Doing Our Own Work Training of Facilitators program in 2003. In May of 2008, Ann died of cancer at the age of 49, but her unceasing passion for justice lives on in those of us who knew and loved her and in the graduates of Doing Our Own Work.

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