National Association for Multicultural Education Organization of the Year 2004
DC Humanities Council 6th Annual
Public Humanities Award 1993 
Advancement Project, 2006 Calendar
One of 12 national non-profit organizations selected to be featured. 
Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award 2004
for Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching
MetLife Foundation Teacher-Parent Engagement
Through Partnership Award 2001
for Tellin’ Stories Project

Selected in 2010 by the National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group, coordinated by the Harvard Family Research Project, as one of twelve examples of leading innovations in
family engagement, Taking Leadership, Innovating Change.