The Fort Collins Not In Our Town Alliance is a community-based effort to create and support collaboration among individuals, agencies, organizations and local governments to address the causes and effects of prejudice, discrimination and hate motivated behavior. Fort Collins Not in Our Town Alliance, a non-political group, sponsors quarterly op ed articles called soap boxes in the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper.  The group has a Response team which meets with victims of incidents and advises them on possible ways to deal with these incidents.  It also has a Prevention Team which sponsors educational events for the community.  It sponsors a monthly book club to read and discuss books with themes on diversity, discrimination and various perspectives on related social issues.  It also maintains a hot line phone number monitored by the NIOTA Council, who are elected at an annual meeting by the membership.