Tim Ferris: January 18-21: blogging from the bus

Tim Ferris: January 18-21: blogging from the bus

DURING THE BUS TRIP WE WILL DO A 50 Year Review & Analysis:

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Programs, Models, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. In review will be past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency, in addition, we will also seek to identify and address the historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?

Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Metropolitan Cities Demonstration Act (Model Cities)
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors
• Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions
• Public Law 95-507 and modifications
• Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE
• The Small Business Investment Act and Minority programs such as Small Business investment Comaopny [SBIC's] and Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corp, Vista
• National and Regional Purchasing Councils including the National Minority Purchasing Council
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint venture, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-through, fronts, and joint ventures
• Community Reinvestment Act and a 100 year review of banking, finance, insurance, securities and exchange laws
  
• Public Law 110- 343 known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] and other programs of the last years of the Bush Administration

Principle Advisor to the National Ad Hoc Fairness Campaign Steering Committee and Panel Moderator is Lawrence Auls Executive Director LISW, LTD, Chairman of MDi, a Next Generation Broadband Wireless Community Development Co.