Resources & Reports

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Resource Links:

1. 13 myths of Affirmative Action - African American Policy Forum - www.aapf.org
2. Affirmative Action Info, Calendars, Tools, Daily Email Alerts - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund - www.civilrights.org
3. Tools and the DVD ARISE: The Battle over Affirmative Action - www.affirmativeactionadvocacy.com.
4. Race Dialogue and Tools - Center for Social Inclusion - www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/
5. Affirmative Action Tool Kit - American Association of University Women - www.aauw.org
6. Affirmative Action information - Equal Justice Society - www.equaljusticesociety.org/
7. Information on Affirmative Action & Race - Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity http://kirwaninstitute.org/research/projects/affirmative-action/index.php
8. The 2009 Nonprofit Economic Climate: Managing Nonprofits Through the Economic Downturn (Webinar) - Fiscal Management Associates & the Nonprofit Finance Fund - https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=PROG88E
9. Evaluation Tools for Racial Equity - Center for Assessment and Policy Development http://www.evaluationtoolsforracialequity.org/index.htm

Reports:

1. The Great Service Divide: Occupational Segregation & Inequality in the New York City Restaurant Industry. Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY). March 2009. (In March 2009, ROC-NY released a groundbreaking study on occupational segregation based on race and gender in the New York City restaurant industry.)
2. An Independent Study of Michigan Proposal 2 in Comparison with California Propositions 209 and 54 and Washington State Initiative 200. University of California - Berkeley. December 2008. (In the fall of 2007, the Fulfilling the Dream Fund commissioned a group of university-based researchers to
   conduct an independent analysis of the campaign and election resulting in the adoption of Proposal 2 by Michigan
   voters in November 2006. Click on the above link to read the Executive Summary)
3. Affirmative Action in the Public Discourse: Media Content & Opinion Analysis, The Opportunity Agenda (a public opinion analysis encompassing the current debate around affirmative action, as efforts in five states push for ballot referendums on the issue. Recommendations on building a pro-affirmative action strategic frame are provided.).
4. Coral Construction v. City & County of San Francisco, Brief of Amicus Curiae, Supreme Court of California, Case No. S152934 (contracting discrimination case LCCR was involved in).
5. The Corporate Boardroom: Still a Male Club, Lissa Broome, 33 Journal of Corporation Law 665, 2008 (book review written by Lissa Broom of UNC Center for Civil Rights examining No Seat at the Table, which chronicles the lack of gender diversity on corporate boards)
6. A Fair Chance: Field Analysis & Recommendations to Promote Opportunity for All, the Fulfilling the Dream Fund, March 2007 (identifies priorities for defending and supporting affirmative action policies and provides specific recommendations on how the philanthropic community can help address racial and gender inequalities).
7. Free to Compete? Measuring the Impact of Proposition 209 on Minority Business Enterprises, Discrimination Research Center, 2006 (Discrimination Research Center, now Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, set out to measure the impact of Proposition209 on businesses that were certified as MBEs).
8. Overview of the Education Equity Project, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area & ACLU of Southern California, October 2006 - March 2008 (examines the tremendous need for public education regarding the rights and tools provided by the Williams settlement and implementing additional legislation).
9. Steps that Government Agencies Can Take to Ensure Equal Opportunity Public Contracting, Education & Employment , Jeffrey Bleich and Todd Gluth, Fall 2007 (examines pro-active steps that government institutions can take to promote affirmative action in California in a post-Proposition 209 era).
10. A Vision Fulfilled? The Impact of Proposition 209 on Equal Opportunity for Women Business Enterprises, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, September 2007 (documents the eleven-year impact of WBE's in California)