NCBI International
NCBI is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1984. NCBI has established not only city-based leadership teams but also organization-based leadership teams in high schools, colleges and universities, corporations, foundations, correctional facilities, law enforcement agencies, government and labor unions. Currently NCBI has 50 city-based leadership teams, 30 organization-based teams and 40 college-based teams.

The effectiveness of NCBI programs has been recognized in the national news media.  The Washington Post published a front-page story on NCBI's work. ABC World News featured NCBI as a “program that works”.  USA Today listed NCBI as a key resource for schools and communities to stop violence.  The National League of Cities has urged elected officials to enlist NCBI in creating proactive solutions to racial tensions.  And, a recent feature on ABC News referred to NCBI as, "a diversity program that works." NCBI has recently received a two year grant from the Department of Justice to bring together police and community leaders to work against racism in the community.
 

About NCBI - Illinois
Since its establishment in 1995, more than 11,000 people from the public, private and non-profit sectors have attended more than 300 NCBI-Illinois workshops. The NCBI-Illinois Team consists of over 100 advocates trained to conduct the award winning workshops. Our trainers are "peer leaders" representing a broad spectrum of people such as municipal employees, educators, community activists, social workers, law enforcement personnel and private sector employees. We can furnish trainers with work experience that relates to almost every workshop group.  NCBI-Illinois is head quartered in Park Forest, Illinois in the "Chicago Southland."  Our chapter members come from the entire Chicagoland region and as far south as Bloomington and Normal in central Illinois.

NCBI-Illinois has worked with dozens of Chicago area municipalities. We have provided staff training in school systems from elementary to the college level, and have worked with many police departments, religious communities and private sector clients.  NCBI-Illinois provided bi-monthly workshops as part of Baird and Warner Real Estate’s new Realtor training.  We have facilitated the establishment of teams of trainers in organizations such as the Village of Oak Park, the Walgreen Company, the Illinois Math & Science Academy, the City of Bloomington IL, the MARC Organization in Normal IL and Loyola University Chicago. We can help organizations of all types take advantage of their diversity, resolve conflicts, build community, and develop in-house leaders.