The Incorporated Village of Hempstead’s Human Relations Council educates, provides, facilitates, promotes, anticipates, studies, and recommends programs, projects, feedback, and actions for the elimination of discrimination in any and all fields of human relationships. It also facilitates events and programming with the goal of fostering a culture of community and inclusion within the Village of Hempstead.

The purposes of this Council shall be:

• To improve human relations in the Village
• To encourage the preservation of the ethnic and racial pluralism
• To facilitate cooperation, communication, and understanding among the individuals, groups and communities within the Village