Mission & History

Our Vision

At CPIE, we envision a world where governments protect and preserve human rights and where people respect diversity and promote inclusiveness. Our vision is that educators must promote awareness, understanding, tolerance and respect. Our peers and our children will then develop an attitude that will not allow prejudice towards those different from us. Young people must become agents of change for a better world, in which no one will be a bystander when any kind of injustice or abuse is being committed.

Our History

Inspiration and admiration... In March 2007, Helene Luce attended a workshop about teaching the Holocaust and an activist was born. Stirred by personal stories of struggle and triumph by the persecuted, and recognizing a void in education about those struggles and triumphs, Luce saw a need and an opportunity. Why not establish a program to assist her fellow educators and perhaps create a better world? An organization could provide research, materials and training to teachers, as well as share personal stories about all kinds of civil injustice. Luce called her friend, who became equally as excited about the possibilities, and CPIE was born.

Why It Matters

"If someone challenged me to think or pointed out reality instead of stereotypes, I would never have gotten involved with these hatemongers."
--Floyd Cochran, a former member of the Aryan Nation
Quoted in the National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA