GROUP FORMATION GUIDE & DIRECTORY
How to actually put a Conversations in Black and White group together?
Well, after talking with librarians and booksellers and educators and organizational leaders about forming Conversations in Black and White groups, we’ve complied some suggestions for identifying other interested readers. They recommended reaching out to the following:
- Independent bookstores (they often have bookclubs of their own and may be willing to expand to include this mission or link with independent bookstores in other communities);
- Local libraries or regional library systems (libraries frequently have bookclubs of their own and may be willing to expand to include this focus);
- Local community centers (community centers sometimes sponsor book clubs and may consider one with this emphasis);
- Companies (the companies or organizations for which readers work or have connections might be open to this endeavor);
- Alumni organizations;
- Universities and colleges;
- Professional societies;
- Sororities and fraternities; and
- Non-profit organizations.
GROUP DIRECTORY
If you have formed a group and would like to share some details with us, please use the form below. You will have the option to make this information private (just for us!) or public, which means that it will be posted on this website. Conversations in Black & White will never sell this information and will only use it to help facilitate like-minded conversations.
Regardless of whether you elect to make your group information public or private, we will make a virtual appearance at a meeting of the first 10 Conversations in Black and White groups to register. And periodically thereafter, we may pop into a group meeting, with your permission.
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