Investing in the Black Community 

STATE OF THE RACE will present practical, research-based information for professionals, activists, and decision-makers in the nonprofit, foundation, and public sectors.  This is a comprehensive look at trends and dynamics affecting black people in Bay Area communities, which can be directly applied to many kinds of advocacy, direct service, and organizing efforts to improve quality of life issues for African Americans.

FIRST OF A SERIES

The event is the first of two conversations planned to coincide with research that Urban Strategies Council has been commissioned to undertake on behalf of BABIP. The first phase of the commissioned research will identify both the neighborhoods where African Americans reside and the changes in their residency between 2000 and 2008.

The second phase of the research, scheduled for completion next year, will incorporate the 2010 Census data and examine key outcome indicators for African Americans in education, health, employment, crime and economic development.

This conference is framed to be solution-based to bring substantive changes for Black communities in the Bay Area and will be a platform for:

   1. discussing the initial data analysis,

   2. identifying strategies for addressing some major issues confronting the Black community, and

   3. starting to frame an approach to investment that can improve these outcomes.

CONFIRMED SESSION LEADERS & PARTICIPANTS

Dr. Emmett Carson, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation

James Head, Vice President for Programs, The San Francisco Foundation

Dr. Malo Hutson, Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning

Eric McDonnell, Vice President, United Way of the Bay Area

Arnold Perkins, Alameda County Health and Human Services, Retired

Dr. Steven Pitts, Labor Policy Specialist, UC Berkeley Labor Center

Nicole Taylor, President and CEO, East Bay Community Foundation

Junious Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Strategies Council

CONFERENCE OUTLINE

(A final schedule will be posted on September 28.)

I.    Registration & Breakfast

II.   Welcome & Introductions

III.  Opening Plenary Session

IV.  Concurrent Sessions:

- Education Participation and Attainment

- Health and Environment

- Employment and Income

- Crime and Incarceration

- Economic Development

- Redevelopment and Base Closure

VI.               V.   Lunchtime Keynote Address

           VI.  Concurrent Sessions (repeated)

           VII.  Session Summary and Closing Plenary: Strategies

CELEBRATING BLACK PHILANTHROPY

The STATE OF THE RACE conference will follow BABIP's Celebrating Black Philanthropy Gala Reception honoring African American philanthropists on September 29, 2010 at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland. Click here for more information; please join us!

ABOUT US
For more information about BABIP, please visit our website, www.babip.org. BABIP is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, a national leader in rigorous, high-quality fiscal management of nonprofit sector initiatives.