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think any of our institutions are exempted if they're not making a concerted effort to look at the big picture, asking what are the ways we might be supporting this and not looking at the big picture."

"I'm not afraid of the conversation, but I don't want to lead with that," she concluded. "It's who I am, it's part of what I bring, but it's not the highlight of my being offered the position of executive director of the center."

At various points in the past, the center has been accused of institutionalized or individual racism, often unjustified accusations.

In addition to the executive director hire, the board has been busy working through a nearly half-million-dollar bequest and examining options for the future location of the center.

"We have used some of the money," Sferra noted. "We paid off a line of credit using $50,000. We have the rest of it in a fluid account and we are taking the ED

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He said that grant-giving organizations balked at the idea of an extended period without a permanent executive director in the position, so the search itself helped secure some funding.

"We received some good grants this year... and we hope to have one more staff member fully grant-funded," he said.

As for the location of the center, they examined partnering with other organizations to share space, as well as staying in their basement location at 6600 Detroit Avenue.

As it stands, it looks like they will move into a ground-floor space in the Gordon Square building, upstairs from their current location.

Sferra said that they had gotten a very good offer from Gordon Square. A meeting with local architects who are offering their services pro bono to design plans for renovating the space was set for April 18.

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