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Urban Peace has made significant strides in improving safety in Los Angeles communities by increasing the skills, knowledge and professionalism of public and private stakeholders working to reduce youth gang violence. Now in its eighth year, the Urban Peace Academy (UPA) has trained 2,400 gang violence interventionists, school leaders, parks and recreation workers and community residents. Over 800 gang interventionists are now certified to work for the Los Angeles Citys Gang Reduction and Youth Development program. And 900 law enforcement officers and over 400 LAPD officers have been trained. The UPA also provided training for gang intervention and community workers implementing the highly successful Los Angeles and Long Beach Summer Night Lights programs to work in the Citys 32 SNL Parks. 2368065 58875 Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track Project: The Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Project works with grassroots organizations throughout the country to examine, expose, and reform practices that lead to the criminalization of students. We support work on the ground, build capacity for community-led work, and build bridges amongst those working to end the schoolhouse to jailhouse track. Across the country, school systems are shutting the doors of academic opportunity on students and funneling them into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The combination of overly harsh school policies and an increased role of law enforcement in schools has created a school-to-prison pipeline, in which punitive measures such as suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests are increasingly used to deal with student misbehavior, and huge numbers of youth are pushed out of school and into prisons and jails. In many communities, this transforms schools from places of learning to dangerous gateways into juvenile court. This is more than an education crisis; it is a racial justice crisis, because the students pushed out through harsh discipline are disproportionately students of color. 1954271 30000 1566449 Healthy City is an information and action resource that unites community voices, research and technology to solve the root causes of social inequity in California. In 2013 we engaged over 3,060 community stakeholders and nonprofit professionals. In each setting, participants learned to incorporate data and geographic development in their community improvement efforts. Healthy City helped philanthropies such as The California Endowment, The California Wellness Foundation, and First 5 Los Angeles make more equitable and targeted investments in the health of communities. The Community Research Lab (CRL), a program that helps community-based organizations lead and sustain their own research, spent most of 2013 preparing for the expansion of our community research workshops across the state and to new audiences. 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2) SUPPORT OF THE FLORIDA STATE CONFERENCE NAACP'S EFFORTS TO PASS A BILL REVISING THE STATE'S ZERO TOLERANCE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE LAW; 3) WORK WITH THE PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE ON THEIR EFFORT TO OBTAIN REVISIONS TO THE COUNTY TAXICAB CODE.3) DISCUSSIONS TO BLOCK REGRESSIVE ELECTIONS BILLS AND ADVANCE PROGRESSIVE ELECTION REFORM IN MO, FL AND PA STATE LEGISLATURES, AND A LIMITED AMOUNT OF FEDERAL LOBBYING IN THE CONGRESS REGARDING PROPOSED REFORMS OF THE HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT AND THE NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT.4) ADVOCACY IN CONGRESS ON BEHALF OF DISPLACED RESIDENTS FROM THE GULF COAST AND SUPPORTING LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING SYSTEM IN NEW ORLEANS AND NATIONWIDE. 574337 405846 168491 153125 62714 90411 258902 11992980 179890 475500 655390 11337590 11337590 12959567 475500 475500 12484067 12484067 true DEMOCRACY NORTH CAROLINA 1821 GREEN STREET DURHAM NC 27705 562271150 501(c)(3) 20700 0 VOTER PROTECTION PROGRAM PADRES UNIDOS 3025 WEST 37TH AVE STE 206 DENVER CO 80211 841426652 501(c)(3) 51640 0 SCHOOLHOUSE PROGRAM UNITED WAYS OF CALIFORNIA 1107 FAIR OAKS AVE STE 12 SOUTH PASADENA CA 91030 941646369 501(c)(3) 30000 0 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 3 0 Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used Grant recipients are required to submit reports detailing the results of the project funded and expenditures incurred. These reports are reviewed and monitored by staff. X X X false false false false false false false false false false CONSTANCE RICE BD MEM/CO-DIR 163797 7346 171143 EDWARD HAILES SENIOR ATTORNEY 154266 5043 159309 JOHN KIM CO-DIRECTOR CA 150262 8333 158595 JUDITH DIANIS CO-DIRECTOR DC 169325 12879 182204 SUSAN LEE SENIOR ATTORNEY 135603 18950 154553 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Strategic Communications: Advancement Projects strategic communications program adds capacity to state and local groups working to confront and dismantle structural racism. To achieve racial justice, Advancement Project uses carefully crafted legal, policy and communications strategies in support of grassroots movements. Since its inception, Advancement Project has employed strategic communications to promote local reform efforts and to influence the national discourse on issues of structural exclusion. Through the commission of public opinion research, crafting winning messages, training spokespeople, serving as a PR firm to local groups through the development and implementation of communications plans that include the use of traditional media (television and radio) as well as social media, Advancement Project seeks to move the dial on the civil rights issues of our time. We create echo chambers on issues to capture hearts and minds to provide an opening for change in policy and the law. In the area of voting rights, Advancement Project has conducted public opinion research, created messages and provided support to local groups to expose voter suppression and push for progressive reforms. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Restoration of Rights Project:Historically, Virginia was one of only four states that took away from all citizens convicted of a felony the fundamental right to vote for life unless they went through a lengthy and challenging individual petition process. Advancement Project's Restoration of Rights Project - a multi-racial, multigenerational rights restoration campaign seeks to establish full automatic restoration in Virginia. The Project, built on Advancement Project's previous clemency campaigns, is a definitive strike at this unfair disenfranchisement system. This project achieved a major milestone on the path to full automatic restoration in 2013. In May 2013, the Governor of Virginia issued an executive order to provide automatic restoration for those who were convicted of "non-violent" felony offenses. Advocacy and strategic communication efforts by Advancement Project and its grassroots partners played a major role in this significant victory. It also paved the way for a second victory in April 2014, when the Governor narrowed the list of felony offenses classified as violent by removing all drug charges from the list (expanding the number of citizens eligible for Virginias automatic voting rights restoration process) and reducing the five-year waiting period, for when people with violent convictions may apply to get their rights back, to three years. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track Project: The Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Project works with grassroots organizations throughout the country to examine, expose, and reform practices that lead to the criminalization of students. We support work on the ground, build capacity for community-led work, and build bridges amongst those working to end the schoolhouse to jailhouse track. Across the country, school systems are shutting the doors of academic opportunity on students and funneling them into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The combination of overly harsh school policies and an increased role of law enforcement in schools has created a school-to-prison pipeline, in which punitive measures such as suspensions, expulsions, and school-based arrests are increasingly used to deal with student misbehavior, and huge numbers of youth are pushed out of school and into prisons and jails. In many communities, this transforms schools from places of learning to dangerous gateways into juvenile court. This is more than an education crisis; it is a racial justice crisis, because the students pushed out through harsh discipline are disproportionately students of color. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 7: Educational Equity launched SaveMySeatLA.org and made the impacts clear and showed the disparity inherent in early care and education services to low-income communities. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 8: Educational Equity: The Educational Equity program ensures school facilities for all and expands educational opportunities for low-income children from birth through high school graduation. We helped make sure low-income Los Angeles public school students have over 120 new schools and California has renovated more than a million education spaces in high-need communities. Working with our partners, we made sure 5,000 low income LAUSD students had early learning opportunities. Through successful collaboration among several key ECE groups, including Advancement Project, California passed one of the nation's largest early education programs transitional kindergarten for 120,000 four year olds. The Water Cooler, a statewide network of 500 ECE advocates and providers ensures more coordinated and successful policy interventions with the Legislature. We are also working to ensure the newly implemented state school funding plan - the Local Control Funding Formula helps improve the educational outcomes of LAUSD students. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 9: Other programs Form 990, Part VI, Line 2: Description of Business or Family Relationship of Officers, Directors, Et BOARD SECRETARY/TREASURER STEVE ENGLISH AND BOD PRESIDENT MOLLY MUNGER ARE MARRIED. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process THE FORM 990 IS REVIEWED BY MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE PRIOR TO MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO THE FULL BOARD FOR REVIEW UPON REQUEST. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts THE DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICTS IS CALLED FOR AT EACH BOARD MEETING. DIRECTORS WHO HAVE A PERSONAL INTEREST IN A MATTER SUCH THAT IT IS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST UNDER THE ORGANIZATION'S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST POLICY, DISCLOSE SUCH INTEREST AND DO NOT VOTE ON THE MATTER. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management THE ORGANIZATION PURCHASED SALARY SURVEYS AND THE CFO AND THE TREASURER USED THEM TO ANALYZE THE COMPENSATION BEING AWARDED FOR DIRECTORS OF ORGANIZATIONS OF SIMILAR SIZE AND PURPOSES. THE CO-DIRECTORS WHO ARE NOT COMPENSATED PROPOSED COMPENSATION FOR COMPENSATED CO-DIRECTORS. THIS RECOMMENDATION IS PRESENTED TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE WHICH AFTER DELIBERATING MAKES ITS COMPENSATION DETERMINATION. THE AUDIT COMMITEE DELIBERATED ON THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN MADE ITS COMPENSATION DETERMINATIONS FOR THE SALARIES OF THE CO-DIRECTORS. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees THE COMPENSATION FOR OTHER EMPLOYEES IS FIRST BASED ON A 3% COST OF LIVING INCREASE WHICH IS INCORPORATED INTO THE BUDGET, BUT THE ORGANIZATION'S CO-DIRECTORS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO GRANT ADDITIONAL INCREASES AS THEY SEE FIT. DURING 2013, THE ORGANIATION GRANTED ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION INCREASES FOR SOME EMPLOYEES TO BRING THEIR SALARIES UP TO COMPARABLE MARKET RATES. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON WRITTEN REQUEST. FORM 990, PART X, LINE 29 - PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS THE ORGANIZATION RECEIVED $1,200,000 FROM THE FORD FOUNDATION TO ESTABLISH AN OPERATING RESERVE. THE TERMS OF GRANT REQUIRE THAT THE FUNDS ARE MANAGED ACCORDING TO THE GUIDELINES AND POLICIES DETERMINED BY THE ORGANIZATION'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND SHOULD INCORPORATE THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES: (1) A POLICY OUTLINING THE GOVERNANCE AND USE OF THE RESERVE FUND, INCLUDING SPECIFYING THE NATURE OF THE INTENDED USES SPECIFYING CRITERIA JUSTIFYING USAGE OR BORROWING OF THE RESERVE FUNDS AS WELL AS PROCEDURES FOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF BORROWING FROM THE RESERVE FUND, SHALL BE DEVELOPED AND ADOPTED, AND THIS POLICY SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE FORD FOUNDATION (2) THE POLICY DESCRIBED IN '(1)' SHALL PROVIDE THAT ANY BORROWINGS FROM THE RESERVE ARE SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE ORGANIZATION'S BOARD OF DIRCTORS (3) THE ORGANIZATION SHALL MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE RESERVE FUND POLICY THROUGH REGULAR AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (4) THE RESERVE FUND SHALL BE PHYSICALLY SEGREGATED FROM ALL OTHER ASSETS AND IS TO BE REFLECTED SEPARATELY ON THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION AND SHOWN AS PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS (5) THE POLICY FOR THE RESERVE FUND SHALL SPECIFY THE ORGANIZATION'S INVESTMENT STRATEGY AND SHOULD BE REVIEWED PERIODICALLY AND MODIFIED BASED ON ECONOMIC AND MARKET CONDITIONS AT THE TIME. THE INVESTMENT STRATEGY SHOULD REQUIRE THAT THE FUNDS BE CONSERVATIVELY INVESTED SO AS NOT TO LOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWING THE RESERVE, BUT NOT IN ANY WAY THAT PUTS THE FUNDS AT RISK OR PREVENTS LIQUIDITY AND (6) THE RESERVE FUND'S MANAGERS ARE REQUIRED TO EXERCISE ORDINARY BUSINESS CARE AND PRUDENCE WITH RESPECT TO THE RESERVE FUND UNDER THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES PREVAILING AT THE TIME OF MAKING AN INVESTMENT, IN PROVIDING FOR THE LONG- AND SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL NEEDS OF THE ORGANIZATION TO CARRY OUT ITS EXEMPT PURPOSES.