Advancement Project
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The Advancement Project is a US nonprofit policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice founded by several civil rights lawyers in 1998. It has offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C..
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[edit] Co-Directors
The Advancement Project's co-directors are Stephen English, Molly Munger (daughter of Charlie Munger), Constance L. Rice, Penda Hair, and Judith Browne. Munger, Rice, Hair, and Browne were all previously involved with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
[edit] Board Of Directors
The Advancement Project's board of directors includes Harry Belafonte, former Assistant Attorney General Bill Lann Lee, SEIU Executive Vice President Gerry Hudson, and Jose Alvarez, former Northeast Regional Director of the AFL-CIO
[edit] Mission
Advancement Project's mission is:
"To develop, encourage, and widely disseminate innovative ideas, and pioneer models that inspire and mobilize a broad national racial justice movement to achieve universal opportunity and a just democracy!"
Advancement Project partners with community organizations bringing them the tools of legal advocacy and strategic communications to dismantle structural exclusion.
[edit] Methodology
Advancement Project was founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers who believed that structural racism could begin to be dismantled by multi-racial grassroots organizing focused on changing public policies and supported by legal and communications strategies.
Advancement Project was created to develop and inspire community-based solutions based on the same high quality legal analysis and public education campaigns that produced the landmark civil rights victories of earlier eras.
[edit] Issues
The Advancement Project is involved with a variety of issues concerning civil rights and equality. Notable issues addressed by the Advancement Project include controversies surrounding Hurricane Katrina, the Rampart scandal, voter's rights, public health, and funding for education.
[edit] Major Contributors
Major contributors to the Advancement Project include George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Keck Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation.
