In the meantime, we think it's important to give you information including financial and granting summaries, in a timely fashion. Granting In 2000, ATR made grants in every part of our region to more than 100 community groups organizing dozens of constituencies to impact a complete spectrum of issues. ATR's commitment to movement-building guided the decision to overhaul our granting program in 1998. We have put our vision into action. Total granting in 2000 was also up slightly over 1999.
Final numbers are now available.
First, the organization undertook an ongoing Dismantling Racism Process to achieve broader unity, and to address race issues in our region, in our organization, and in ourselves. As reported in the ATRium, the highlight of this process during 2000 was a two-day training session led by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun involving mostly board and staff last October. We recognize, however, that we are largely a volunteer organization, that we have finite time available, and that we need to continue ATR's daily work, even as we take on deeper issues. We are confident that the groundwork we do on race will serve ATR well when we take up other fundamental issues with a similar level of intensity. Second, ATR set the basis for beginning the most thorough Strategic Planning Process ever undertaken in our 23-year history.