Recognition for CDR's work, and the moments that shaped the organization over three decades in Fargo-Moorhead.
2024
Yoke-Sim Gunaratne, Executive Director
The McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota Council on Foundations received 256 submissions from across Minnesota and approved seven honorees, two of them from Clay County, including Yoke-Sim. The honor recognizes her work developing programs in employment, financial literacy, diversity education, bilingual interpreter services, nonprofit management, and entrepreneurship training since 1994.
2023
Cultural Diversity Resources
The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber named CDR the 2023 recipient of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ChamberChoice Award for the organization's work building communities that value diversity.
Champions for Diversity Awards
CDR created the Champions for Diversity Awards to recognize contributions made by nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses, and K-16 educational institutions that demonstrate, encourage, and promote diversity and inclusion in our region.
Corporate sponsors have supported the annual Diversity Conference and Champions for Diversity Awards in support of CDR's mission of building communities that value diversity as our area becomes more diverse and global. Watch the events page for the next awards, or ask about sponsoring them.
Milestones
1993
Fargo-Moorhead leaders hold forums on urgent community issues and decide the region must embrace its growing ethnic diversity and help diverse populations overcome barriers to participation.
1994
The F-M Cultural Diversity Project launches with programs to increase understanding of diversity and inclusiveness, and sends its first leaders to National SEED Project training.
1996
CDR becomes the area's business leader for translation and interpreter services, training and certifying bilingual community interpreters.
1998
Cultural Diversity Resources is incorporated as a tax-exempt nonprofit serving the Fargo-Moorhead metro, Cass County in North Dakota, and Clay County in Minnesota.
1999
CDR's SEED cohort hosts a regional training that seeds seminars across the Red River Valley, from Fargo to Fergus Falls.
2012
CDR recognizes nonprofits, businesses, and K-16 educational institutions that demonstrate, encourage, and promote diversity and inclusion in the region.
2014
With a Bush Foundation community innovation grant, CDR begins building the leadership and capacity of ethnic nonprofits in collaboration with community partners.
2019
CDR's annual Cultivate Our Cultures celebration at the Heritage Hjemkomst Center reaches its largest crowd yet.
2021
Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity seminars move their fiscal home from Moorhead Area Public Schools to CDR.
2023
The Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber honors CDR with its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion award.
2024
Executive Director Yoke-Sim Gunaratne is named a Virginia McKnight Binger Heart of Community honoree.