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Building understanding (BUDS) builds understanding and inspires positive change agents through workshops, a monthly speaker series, an annual festival, a teen summer camp, an international youth homestay program, among other community events.

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As Saul Bellow once wrote, we live in a beautiful wicked world.
Despite significant strides since the U.S. civil rights movement, racism, classism, bigotry and bias continue to oppress and harm.
And as Mandela, Dr. King, Audre Lorde, and others have so perceptively noted, the persons being harmed are all - the bigot's life is lessened and limited, and the whole community's welfare depreciated.