The National Fairness and Growth Conference Call

starting at 12 Noon EST at Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850 Participant Access Code: 570587# lasts till 4PM our time I am on at 1:30 to 2:00 PM

National Fairness and Growth Campaign Steering Committee

• General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) and Board Member of Housing Assistance Council
  
• Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign
• Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
• Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) and on the board of the CRA Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation
  
• Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Redevelopment

Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator
Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD

National Fairness and Growth Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4850
Participant Access Code: 570587#

Agenda

9:00 – 9:15 AM	Call to Order and Introductions
9:15 – 9:55 AM	National Growth and Fairness Conference 50 Year Review
9:55 - 10:15 AM	Impact and Solutions as to Prop 209 What is Best Practice Legislation look Like?
10:15 – 10:30 AM	The Emergency Contractors Fund Who? Why? When?
10:30 – 10:40 AM	Faith Based Initiative Briefing and Introduction From the Pulpit to the White House
10:40 – 11:00 AM	Broadband America and LEED Buildings = One Million NAPS in smartHouseholds that creates a broadband means tested network for 200 Million People in the United States
11:00 – 11:15 AM	Break
11:15 – 11:30 AM	ARRA PRP, PRG, PPIP from a Congressional Black Caucus Hearing
11:30 - 11:45 AM	Economic Security Initiatives
11:45 AM – 12:05 PM	Organizational and Community Development Best Practices Review
12:05 – 12:25 PM	Health Policy Options and Telemedicine with the ability to develop a Statewide Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) Laboratory Simulation
12:25 – 12:45 PM	Best Practices Recommendations Review
12:45 – 1:00 PM	Wrap-up

The current host agency is the Emergency Contractors Fund and

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50 YEAR REVIEW & ANALYSIS

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Development Programs, Empowerment Zones, Model Cities, CDBG, DOL Workforce Development Grants, Community Action Agencies, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. The Fairness Campaign will review past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency. The Fairness Campaign will also identify and address historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?
Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (Model Cities), Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors Strategy
• 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 capitalization programs such as Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• Construction Apprenticeship Programs
• Small Business Administration (SBA) and other business economic and technical assistance programs
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corps, Vista
• Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones
• Minority, National and Regional Purchasing Councils
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint ventures, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-throughs, fronts, and joint ventures