2017-11-13T12:49:46-06:00 2016-12-31 946214841 Armanino LLP 11766 Wilshire Blvd 9th Floor Los Angeles CA 90025 990 2016-01-01 954835230 Advancement Project ADVA 2139891300 1910 West Sunset Blvd No 500 Los Angeles CA 90026 GIOVANNI COZZARELLI CFO 2139891300 2017-11-09 1 Thomas Schulte P00637812 3104784148 69.75.114.228 2017-11-09 12:45:06 PS P DA39A3EE5E6B4B0D3255BFEF95601890AFD80709 AEFADB9EECB0F3240FD57BDD2849E9ECBE845246 2016 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z STEPHEN ENGLISH 1910 West Sunset Blvd No 500 Los Angeles CA 90026 11872907 0 X WWW.ADVANCEMENTPROJECT.ORG X 2001 CA ADVANCEMENT PROJECT IS A NEXT GENERATION, MULTI-RACIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. ROOTED IN THE GREAT HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLES FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE, WE EXIST TO FULFILL AMERICA'S PROMISE OF A CARING, INCLUSIVE AND JUST DEMOCRACY. WE USE INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACHIEVE HIGH IMPACT POLICY CHANGE. 17 15 98 15 0 0 11059569 11418276 1043604 321572 20448 15561 108592 74584 12232213 11829993 187149 1107286 0 0 7198197 6871961 0 0 956804 4531301 3366941 11916647 11346188 315566 483805 11759634 13151567 798824 1478401 10960810 11673166 X ADVANCEMENT PROJECT IS A NEXT GENERATION, MULTI-RACIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION. ROOTED IN THE GREAT HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLES FOR EQUALITY AND JUSTICE, WE EXIST TO FULFILL AMERICA'S PROMISE OF A CARING, INCLUSIVE AND JUST DEMOCRACY. WE USE INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACHIEVE HIGH IMPACT POLICY CHANGE. 0 0 1383898 153110 The Educational Equity program expands educational opportunities and ensures appropriate school facilities for low income and disadvantaged children from birth through high school graduation. This team led the production of two reports. These included a report on the expansion of Transitional Kindergarten and one on the Landscape of Early Care and Education in Los Angeles County. Both reports shared intensive research on issues around access to early learning, the profile of the workforce that provides care, and the quality of that care and learning opportunities. 1749296 In 2016, Advancement Project's Voter Protection Program continued to work with grassroots partners representing communities of color in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia to dismantle barriers to the ballot and expand meaningful participation by communities of color. The 2016 elections marked the first presidential election without the full protections of the voting rights act in 50 years, coinciding with new voting restrictions in 14 states that provided an urgent context for our work. We partnered with local voting rights advocates in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina to systematically track thousands of voter registrations to identify errors that could wrongly keep eligible voters off the rolls, and provide advocacy support. We worked with partners in coastal areas in Florida and Georgia who were evacuated and displaced due to Hurricane Matthew just days before the voter registration deadline, to advocate for extension of time for groups to submit voter registration applications. In Missouri and Georgia, we engaged in advocacy to block placement of uniformed police in polling places. We investigated the closure of 70% of the polls in Maricopa County , Arizona during the presidential primaries and engaged in advocacy with the Secretary of State, following which we assisted local grassroots partners in forming the Arizona Commission for Election Accountability to proactively advocate with election officials. As a partner in the national election protection coalition, we participated in Election Protection efforts in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio and Virginia, monitoring polls, training monitors, observing election-day irregularities and engaging in direct advocacy to assist voters in casting ballots during the 2016 Presidential Elections. In litigation, in North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. McCrory, following a month long trial in 2015 we lead a second week-long trial in 2016, which resulted in an unfavorable trial court ruling. We filed an immediate appeal and in July 2016, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law in its entirety, ruling that North Carolina's voter law targeted African Americans "with almost surgical precision." Advancement Project has now withdrawn as counsel in the case. We also filed an amicus brief in the Virginia Supreme Court in Howell v. McAuliffe supporting the restoration of voting rights to approximately 200,000 Virginians with prior felony convictions who had completed their sentences. We also advanced rights restoration work in Florida in a long-standing collaboration with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. 1823956 Advancement Project's Ending-the-Schoolhouse-to-Jailhouse Track Project focused on ending harsh discipline and the criminalization of children of color and improving education outcomes in 2016, and continues to do so in several school districts, across the county. Additionally, we support the national movement to end the school-to-prison pipeline by working alongside national stakeholders and on the ground with local partners by offering communications, legal, policy, and organizing support to grassroots groups in states across the country; which includes bringing the issues that affect young LGBTQ and people of color into the school-to-prison pipeline discussion. 4901645 1107286 243046 Central Research TeamIn 2016 Advancement Project's Research team finished three literature reviews in support of Californians for Safety and Justice's Blueprint for Community Safety, a Community Safety Scorecard for the City of Santa Rosa, and mentored graduate students updating a Community Safety Scorecard for the City of Sacramento; provided data and visualization support for Unequal Voices: California's Racial Disparities in Political Participation and California Pan-Ethnic Health Network's third edition of Mapping the Landscape of Opportunity; gathered the data for the sixth edition of HealthyCity.org; made maps to make the case for investment to improve early care and education; calculated a Justice Equity Need Index of L.A. County ZIP codes for a Prop 47 campaign, a Transit Equity Opportunity Index of L.A. County ZIP codes for the Investing in Place Transportation Equity Technical Working Group, and five Student Equity Need Indexes for Central Valley school districts' Local Control Funding Formula campaigns; identified high prevention- and maltreatment-need ZIP codes in Los Angeles County for the Los Angeles County Office of Child Protection; and prepared research and data, and held stakeholder input gatherings for Advancement Project's Race Counts initiative. These highlights do not include research, maps, and data we produce or trainings we offer on an ongoing basis (e.g., for ECE or ELL/DLL policy). Each piece of work advances the organization's equity mission.Equity in Public FundsThe Equity in Public Funds program transforms the relationship between City Hall and high-need communities, by empowering communities to engage in the budget and funding fights that matter to them and become high-impact advocates for their needs over the long haul. In 2016, the program worked with parent groups and advocates in Del Norte County, Merced, Fresno, Kern County, and the Coachella Valley to help them advocate for local priorities in school district budgets, including increasing investment in parent engagement and restorative justice programs. We also worked with community partners to get LA County to audit its savings from the recently-passed Prop 47, which lowered jail populations by reducing criminal penalties, so that resources could be moved out of the justice system and into prevention.Health EquityHealth Equity brings about real and immediate change to address the majors of health in low-income communities of color. In partnership with community allies and elected officials, we identify and frame community needs, build community power, and advocate for policy solutions across California. The Health Equity team's major strands of work are Access to Health Care and Transportation Equity. In 2016, the program developed a working definition for transportation equity that is being used as criteria for identifying high need communities to guide investment strategies. The Health Equity team also completed pre-ACA health care coverage and infrastructure analysis to assess how County need and priorities were being updated at the time.HealthyCity.orgHealthyCity.org is an easy-to-use online platform for accessing data, creating maps, and working collaboratively. Beyond providing free access to our curated database of community services and localized data variables, HealthyCity.org offers the ability for users to "tell their own story" by uploading their own data or multimedia to the system. The site first launched in 2003; we completed a major redesign and rebuild of the site in Feb 2017 (version 6). The revamped site features new online mapping tools based on the latest in web GIS technologies, curated data to promote effective equity research in California, and better tools for uploading and working with your own data on the sitePolitical VoiceCompleting its first full year as a program, Political Voice continues to empower and amplify the political voices of low-income communities of color by building the capacities and safeguarding the opportunities of those communities to participate in political processes. In June 2016, Political Voice released the first of two reports on racial disparities in political participation (the second was released in February 2017). A high priority 2016 focus of the program entailed organizing partners and orchestrating logistics to host a major event on L.A. County's political participation racial disparities, entitled the "Participation + Power Summit", which was held in February 2017. The program also supported a successful effort to establish by-district elections in city of Corona.Race CountsRace Counts (formerly entitled Advancing Racial Equity Initiative/AREI) aims to develop a statewide vision for racial equity that will help lift up and frame public debates and provide recommendations that serve as levers for change. The initiative arms partners with measuring tools, such as an index, policy reports, and data/policy analysis support, all of which will allow community leaders to make an effective case to policymakers about changing racial inequity in their neighborhoods and throughout California. Key accomplishments in 2016 included finalization of the framework indicators, establishing a stakeholder partnership structure, completing preliminary data analysis, and leading a series of partner convenings for political analysis.Right to Vote InitiativeOur Right To Vote Initiative is a pro-active effort to foster a national pro-democracy movement. By pushing to establish an explicit Right to Vote through constitutional amendments, legislation, or litigation at the federal and state levels, the RTV program advances incremental wins to make it easier for people of color to vote and stimulate voter participation by re-imagining the meaning of American democracy itself. Understanding the role of the RTV in the legacy of the civil rights movement, in 2016 we launched a powerful video Preserving the Right to Vote in 2016 and Beyond, produced by award winning documentarian Stanley Nelson, that featured SNCC leaders along with contemporary racial justice advocates in making the case for a fundamental constitutional right to vote. We also elevated the RTV narrative as part of state-based efforts in Missouri, Florida, Virginia and Arizona, in particular leading a powerful education, organizing and communications campaign to block a Missouri constitutional ballot measure that would weaken the state's fundamental right to vote provisions and implement a strict photo ID requirement, particularly uplifting a #DontTouchMyVote campaign that focused on the power of the vote for millennial activists. We also held a convening of some of the nation's foremost voting rights scholars to advance forward-thinking legal strategies and worked in collaboration with civil rights veteran Bob Moses and NYU Prof. Peggy Davis in developing a historical narrative curriculum of the Right to Vote.Youth Criminalization ProgranIn 2016, Advancement Project worked to shift harmful narratives about young people of color in the media. Through an extensive media analysis in key cities to obtain a clear view of how people of color are represented in local media outlets, ample trainings, screenings and workshops with grassroots partners, production of newsroom manuals, and engagement with key stakeholders in the media, Advancement Project led an aggressive effort to improve narratives on people of color.Strategic CommunicationAdvancement Project's communications team continued its work to boost grassroots partners confronting and dismantling structural racism, denouncing racist narratives or policies, and fighting against efforts to make it harder for people of color to vote. The communications team supports Advancement Project's work in voting rights, rights restoration for persons with prior felony convictions, immigrant justice, ensuring a fundamental right to vote in state and federal law, changing perceptions around youth of color, policing and ending the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse track. Through strategic communications planning, trainings, media placements, writing support, coordination, amplification, rapid response, and capacity building, our team of communicators supported multiple dimensions of bold work aiming to make young people of color more free and whole in their education systems, and so that people of color have the full access to the ballot they deserve. Before and during election season, Advancement Project aggressively used communications work to shift racist narratives and fight back against misdirection on voting and efforts to suppress votes in communities of color both independently and in tandem with our voting rights lawyers. 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