Project Access ADR

From the Executive Summary, 15 February 2005

ACCESS ADR is an initiative to increase the number of ADR professionals from ethnic and racial groups under-represented in the ADR field who are available for selection by the users of ADR services. Diversity in the field is of increasing importance in the global community in which business operates today and in the future. The need for more full-time mediators from a variety of ethnic and racial groups is one of the great challenges facing this growing field of ADR in the United States. ACCESS ADR is designed to expose the users of ADR services to those mediators from various ethnic and racial groups under-represented in the ADR field who are available and qualified to handle high-stakes/complex mediations.
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Project Access ADR Receives Grant

From press release, 03 August 2004

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation recently announced that it has authorized a grant of $60,000 over 18 months to the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, a Maryland-based not-for-profit organization, for general support of ACCESS ADR, an initiative to increase the number of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) professionals of color and to enhance their access to ADR clients.
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