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2025 Initiative Steering Committee Holds First Meeting
The concept behind the Black Men and Boys 2025 Initiative is a simple one: What can we do to make certain there is broad access to a high-quality education, economic opportunities, employment, and affordable housing for this population? Finding effective solutions requires thoughtful discussion; therefore, the first face-to-face meeting of the 2025 Steering Committee took place in New York just before the Black and Male in America conference, brought together by Kevin Powell and supported by 21CF.
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| Gulf South Allied Funders Meet a Challenge and Set a New One |
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Our efforts to help provide adequate resources for equitable recovery efforts received a substantial boost. In our last e-news, we announced a $100,000 challenge grant that came as a remarkable outcome of success from our spring Donor Education trip to the Gulf Coast.
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‘Cause and Effect’ is at the core of any lobbying effort. Citizens go to their elected representatives to communicate in no uncertain terms their concerns regarding the policy decisions affecting them, and then they monitor the resulting voting patterns.
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| From the President |
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We are very pleased to be writing to you from our new office and meeting space at 112th Street. It’s a great improvement over our very small offices on 125th Street, and yet our headquarters is still in Harlem, conveniently located near public transportation, allowing us to continue to serve a national network of leaders, grantees, donors, and allies.
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We Have Moved, and We’re Growing!
Our new address and contact numbers are:
Twenty-First Century Foundation
132 West 112th Street
Lower Level #1
New York, NY 10026
Tel: 212/662-3700
Fax: 212/662-6690
www.21cf.org
New York City Donor Briefing
on the Hurricane Katrina Initiative
September 12, 2007, from 8 - 10 am
Marble Collegiate Church, New York
Bay Area Donor Briefing
on the Hurricane Katrina Initiative
September 19, 2007, from 2-5 pm
Rising Up! Fundraising Dinner
September 19, 2007, from 6 until much later
The Park Chalet, San Francisco
Fall Donor Education Trip to the Gulf Coast
September 26-28, 2007
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| On the Ground: Our Grantees in Action |
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California Youth Connection, San Francisco
Compassion is easily discussed in our society; however, when it comes to the needs of young people lacking the support system of a functional extended family, the story changes. Since 1988, California Youth Connection (CYC) has worked diligently to help change that dynamic among the public and politicians alike. Driven by a staff and membership filled with current and former foster youth, the organization has an understanding of the needs of those being served due to their personal experience.
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The Eagle Academy, New York City
In a nation whose economy is driven by innovation and intellectual property, education has never been a more critical factor in success. The Eagle Academy for Young Men was established in partnership with 100 Black Men of America, Inc.
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Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association,
New Orleans, Louisiana
There is, by now, a familiar narrative that forms the backbone of most coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that features two basic tracks: stories of utter devastation and loss, and stories of people who triumph over extreme adversity. The reality of the situation for the Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) is a combination of those storylines. Housing, economic development with employment opportunities, and education are among the issues they organize community residents — those who have returned and those struggling to make their way home — to advocate for in the struggle for the future of their neighborhood.
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Target Area Development, Chicago
The Southside of Chicago has a reputation for being a pretty tough place, and there is some truth to that characterization. More important than toughness, however, are resilience and speaking up for oneself — traits found in abundance among local residents involved in the Target Area Development Corporation (TADC).
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| The Corner: Where Donors and Grantees Share Ideas |
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Congressman Murphy Seeks Facts, Finds Real People
Congressman Chris Murphy who serves the 5th District in Northwestern Connecticut, understands the need for continuing dialogue and, more important, concerted action so he took a trip to the Gulf Coast. The purpose of his journey to was to receive honest, unfiltered insight into the many serious issues faced by the people of the Gulf Coast.
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| Tool Box: Resources and Best Practices |
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Data + Analysis = Information
When it comes to what has happened along the Gulf Coast since August 28, 2005, we have heard all types of apocryphal information, but what do all those anecdotes really mean? Dr. Lance Hill, Executive Director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research based at Tulane University in New Orleans, pointed us in the direction of the Katrina Research Project on Equity (KRPE) This is the Southern Institute’s clearinghouse for research on the role of race and class in the post-Katrina recovery process in the Gulf Coast region and in displaced communities.
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