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• Continued to coordinate and service the Compact Against Hate Coalition. Participated in news conferences about the desecration of the Korean First Baptist church in November, 2000. Helped the church host a community press conference to support the victims and participated in a community impact meeting to guide the court in sentencing the perpetrator. The League provided corrective training with the goal of helping the young man appreciate the gravity of his acts and better understand and respect others.
• Initiated more than three dozen Hate Crime Networks.
• Endorsed passage of the Hate Crimes bill — letter sent to Minnesota House and Senate leaders.
• Responded to hate crimes and racial incidents in school districts and communities throughout the state and nation.
• Workshops on “Understanding, Reporting and Countering Hate Crimes” were presented with eighteen police departments throughout Minnesota.
• Helped establish new Human Rights commissions in Chaska and Owatonna.
• Distributed program ideas and met with numerous Task forces that are seeking to establish local commissions.
• Presented Idea Exchange meetings in Golden Valley, Red Wing and Brainerd, Crow Wing County.
• Helped plan and launch a conference on Somali Culture and Islamic Values at Roosevelt High School. The conference drew over 900 participants.

• Planning a similar conference with the Olmsted County HRC. The conference took place at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester and also attracted a large audience.
• Sponsored a statewide human rights essay contest for middle school students culminating in a community award ceremony at the Roseville City Hall.
• Presented the 27^th Annual LMHRC Conference celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-98. The League theme was “Living together Seeking Harmony — One Race — the Human Race.”
• Presented the 28^th LMHRC Conference based on a publication of the Shoreview Human Rights Commission — “Children Who Care: Educating Your Child About Human Rights.”
• Gave LMHRC award to the City of “Shoreview and the Shoreview Human Rights Commission in appreciation of their distinguished publication “Children Who Care.”
• Annual conference theme for 2003 was “the Lessons of Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka.”
• League launched a website link  with the Human Rights Center.
• A Somali meeting was sponsored by the League and the Minneapolis Chief of Police, St. Paul Chief of Police, Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, MDHR and the FBI. Meetings were held in Minneapolis, Rochester, St. Cloud and Fridley.
• The League presented at the “Rural Policy and Development of Cities of Minnesota organization in St. Cloud.
• The REHaB (Reducing and Eliminating  Hate Behavior) program was launched, with meetings, training sessions and Guidebook distribution  to REHaB team members.
• HRC reactivated in Anoka in aftermath of a hate crime incident in that community.
• The League responded to a hate graffiti incident at Bethel College.
• A series of 10 regional meetings around the state began to address the post 9-11-01 hate crimes. The first such meeting was conducted in Woodbury titled: “Interreligious and inter-Ethnic Responses to Hate and Bigotry — An Action Oriented Exchange of Experiences and Programs.” About 65 persons attended.
• The League responded to a hate incident in Eagan.
• As of March 20, 2004, REHaB counseling has been provided for 5 individuals convicted of hate crimes.