In 1993, Fargo-Moorhead area leaders held several community forums to identify community issues needing urgent attention. It was determined that the community needed to embrace its increasing ethnic diversity and assist diverse populations in overcoming barriers to community participation. Leaders wanted to ameliorate intolerance of all kinds, increase understanding of the value of diversity, and develop a permanent system wide framework aimed at celebrating the ever-increasing cultures of the community. With this in mind, action to develop a proactive regional diversity project, to cover four cities (Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead and Dilworth) in two counties (Cass County, ND and Clay County, MN) began.
A project development team was formed to develop the mission and long-term goals; to coordinate involvement from key stakeholders in the community; and to seek funding for the project. Cultural Diversity Resources (CDR) was established in 1994 as the Cultural Diversity Project and incorporated with its new name, Cultural Diversity Resources, in 1998 as a 501 (C) 3 tax exempt non-profit organization. CDR was established to address the challenges and opportunities of growing cultural and ethnic diversity.
Cultural Diversity Resources, Inc. is a proactive diversity initiative to address the challenges and opportunities of increased cultural and ethnic diversity with a primary focus on the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area.
The professional services of Cultural Diversity Resoruces are far reaching. CDR serves the entire state of North Dakota, Eastern South Dakota and Western (Greater) Minnesota.
