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“…the end is reconciliation; the end is redemption;
the end is the creation of the beloved community.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957
In this time of bitter division and a rising tide of hate, it helps me to
remember that, in 1950s America, Dr. King could be this compassionate and
clear about the goal we are still fighting to reach.
As we celebrate Advancement Project California’s 20th Anniversary, we’ve
reflected on 20 years of fighting for equity. Turns out, we have always been
working toward the vision of a “Beloved California” – a society based on
justice, equal opportunity, and love for one’s fellow human beings.
Now, I realize redemption and reconciliation are very big concepts. Typically
It takes all of us to imagine and create our Beloved California. It takes all of
reserved for religious services or counseling sessions, I believe they also
us to believe in the power of redemption and reconciliation, and to make
apply to our nitty-gritty policy work.
them possible for ourselves and our neighbors. It takes all of us to care for
one another enough to build the beloved community we all crave.
Redemption happens when people are no longer shamed or blamed for
being jobless, homeless, or caught up in the criminal justice system. Instead,
That's why I'm so thankful for your generous support. Together, we will
there is the recognition that people are not just individual actors but live
continue fighting for our Beloved California into 2020 and beyond.
within systems, and that our fates are bound up with decisions made in
Sacramento, DC, or city hall.
In Solidarity,
Reconciliation occurs when those systems come within the control of the
people they impact – THIS is why we build power in low-income
communities of color. We work toward reconciliation by insisting that the
public square expands to include ALL Californians – especially those who
have been left behind, forgotten, and ignored.
John Kim
Executive Director
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We change policy, move public dollars toward equity, and build power for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
residents alongside our community partners.
Expanding Opportunity for
Advancement Project California builds trusted alliances with advocates Disadvantaged Students
working to change the unjust systems affecting low-income people of color.
We build power with the community by creating multiracial coalitions and
stand alongside community leaders to ensure those policies are
implemented.
We believe California must lead the way by rooting out racial biases that
have been embedded in our public systems through decades of economic EQUITY IN COMMUNITY
and political exclusion. These biases perpetuate cycles of poverty and INVESTMENTS
discrimination. Racial disparities that leave low-income people of color Helping Communities
behind should concern us all.
Transform Neighborhoods
All Californians must be given a fair opportunity to thrive. That is what
equity means to us. It is the fairness in the distribution of resources and
information so that all residents have a shot at living healthy, prosperous
lives.
POLITICAL VOICE
Nurturing A Healthy
Democracy
RACE COUNTS
Advancing Opportunities For
All Californians
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1999
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT FOUNDED
Former NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
lawyers Constance L. Rice and Molly
2007
DECREASING GANG VIOLENCE
Munger, along with attorney Stephen R.
In 2007, we released A Call to Action: A Case
English, formed Advancement Project after
for a Comprehensive Solution to L.A.'s Gang
realizing that a powerful combination of
Violence Epidemic, a roadmap that
data and mapping, coupled with both legal
2010
explained why Los Angeles' 30-year “war
and communication strategies, would prove
on gangs" was failing to quell gangs and
more potent to achieving social change
gang violence and laid out a comprehensive
2000
than litigation on its own. They chose the
set of recommendations to reverse course.
name Advancement Project as a nod to REDUCING VIOLENCE IN OUR COMMUNITIES
We worked closely with city officials to put
their roots at the NAACP LDF and not The Urban Peace Academy designed and
our recommendations into place, and as a
knowing how long the organization would delivered a robust training curriculum for
result, Los Angeles saw greater success in
be around. RENOVATED 1,000,000 CLASSROOMS 2,500 gang interventionists and police
decreasing gang violence. A few years later,
Molly, Connie, and Steve litigated Godinez v. officers working to prevent and reduce
the homicide rate was at its lowest since the
Davis and won. This landmark legal victory violence in our communities. These
1960s. The report was authored by Connie
changed the way California directed school interventionists and law enforcement officers
Rice and our Urban Peace program, which
funding so that high-need urban areas were effectively addressed gang violence and
spun off into its own organization in 2015
prioritized. As a result, $1 billion of presented successful strategies for building
and continues this great work today.
California’s education funds were redirected trust between communities of color and
to high-need schools, easing intense officers to ensure safer neighborhoods.
overcrowding through the construction of FIGHTING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
new schools and renovation of existing We formed the Water Cooler Network,
bringing together 500 early education MAKING SURE EVERYONE COUNTS
buildings.
advocates to impact statewide policy. It was After the Schwarzenegger administration
the first time these advocates had been defunded California’s census work, we
brought together in the same room to teamed up with funders and community
achieve the goal of creating an education leaders across the state to launch a grassroots
2006
system that works for our youngest census outreach effort. Key to the effort was a
learners. one-of-a-kind mapping database that
allowed outreach efforts to be captured,
2003 IMPROVING THE LOS ANGELES POLICE
DEPARTMENT
evaluated, and analyzed. Our data steered
outreach efforts to the areas that were most
at risk of an undercount. Many elements of
LAUNCHED INNOVATIVE MAPPING PORTAL In the late 1990s, a convicted former LAPD this innovative effort have been adopted by
We launched HealthyCity.org, a Rampart officer proclaimed there was the State of California for the 2020 Census.
first-of-its-kind, easy-to-use, and free online widespread corruption and abuse across
platform for residents and community the police department. The crisis torpedoed HELPED 120,000 KIDS GET HIGH-QUALITY
groups to work collaboratively accessing the integrity of the Los Angeles criminal PRESCHOOL
data and creating maps. It allows users to justice system and placed the LAPD under We played an important part in winning
theme and filter data, conduct research, and the jurisdiction of a federal court. In 2006, transitional kindergarten for 120,000
connect with their communities. Users can Advancement Project California’s Connie four-year-olds. Transitional kindergarten
"tell their own story" by uploading their own Rice, as part of the Blue Ribbon Rampart bridges the path between preschool and
data or multimedia to the system. Best of Review Panel, released Rampart kindergarten to help students build a strong
all, the platform helps expose issues of Re-Considered. The report set guidelines to foundation for future school success. Our
health inequities in communities across the reform the LAPD post-Rampart and youngest learners not only get essential
Golden State. Nearly 60,000 people utilized showcased our work on criminal justice pre-literacy, pre-math, and other cognitive
the platform within its first year. reform. skills, but also develop social and
self-regulation skills needed to succeed in
school and life.
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2017
2011 WON $3 MILLION FOR CENSUS OUTREACH
We brought together multiple statewide
NO MORE GERRYMANDERING
organizations in California to help shape
In 2010, California voters approved a
policy concerning the 2020 Census. People of
Citizen’s Redistricting Commission,
color, people who identify as LGBTQ,
bringing the important process of
low-income communities, children, those
redistricting out of back rooms filled with
living with disabilities, and those
political operatives to an open process in
experiencing homelessness have
which community members decide the
traditionally been undercounted in the
lines that truly represent their
census and denied an equal voice. Our
neighborhoods. We understood the
coalition was able to win $3 million to
tremendous opportunity this presented
support 2020 Census planning to reach these
and developed ReDrawCA.org to ensure
2012
communities.
community members were informed,
2016
empowered, and fully engaged in the
redistricting process. We also worked PASSED ENGLISH LEARNER ROADMAP
closely with a statewide coalition of California has an embattled history of
community-based organizations to SHOWED CRISIS IN DAY CARE AND teaching immigrant students. It includes
PRESCHOOL AVAILABILITY POLITICAL VOICE PROGRAM LAUNCHES, segregation and remedial tracking, court
develop legislative boundaries that were
fair and representative of our diverse state. Following the Great Recession, we worked UNEQUAL VOICES REPORT RELEASED battles, being unable to access the full range
to ensure that $1 billion in early care and We released Unequal Voices, a two-part of curriculum due to language barriers, and
Many residents got involved and educated
education funding was put back into the report that analyzed the political students being punished for speaking their
about why redistricting matters, came out
State budget. We created a mapping participation of Californians of color. Most native language. It also includes a 20-year
to meetings, and participated more in the
website, SaveMySeatLA.org, which showed importantly, the report looked at civic English-only education policy. To reverse
political process.
how much investment in our earliest engagement beyond voting – the ways that this terrible history and usher in a new era of
learners had astronomically decreased people who are not allowed to vote (youth, progressive education for students from
RELATIONSHIP-BASED POLICING REFORM ex-offenders, and immigrants) can still
during the recession and where to immigrant families, we worked tirelessly to
Under several police chiefs, the LAPD positively impact their community. The
strategically re-invest. help pass the English Learner Roadmap, a
developed a culture where law report finds, among other things, that historic policy that removed outdated
enforcement was seen as the good guys Latinos and Asian Americans in California barriers to bilingual education to educate the
and Black and Brown communities were face the greatest inequalities in voting, diverse population of students attending
2014
labeled as criminals. Seeing the need to racial disparities are worse in midterm California public schools. It was the first new
fundamentally shift the attitude of the elections than in presidential elections, and policy for English language learners in 20
department, Connie Rice, in conjunction racial gaps persist in most forms of political years.
with elected officials in Los Angeles, participation beyond voting. Advancement
designed relationship-based policing EQUITY IS JUSTICE Project California was the first organization
reforms for the LAPD and implemented We were instrumental in helping to pass the LAUNCHED RACE COUNTS
to do this extensive research and present it We launched RACE COUNTS, a first-of-its
innovative gang reduction strategies that first “Equity is Justice” motion to direct
in this context. kind initiative measuring racial inequity
led to greater public safety. Because of the funds to high-need students in Los Angeles
partnership between Connie and Chiefs of Unified School District (LAUSD). Because of statewide, in partnership with California
Police Bill Bratton and Charlie Beck, we our work, Superintendent John Deasy Calls, PICO California, and USC's Program
were able to move the department away developed an equity-based index that on Environmental and Regional Equity. The
from suppression-based policing to a more identified the highest need schools to guide online tool gives a 3D view of racial inequity
community-based model where the police the state’s allocation of new supplemental in every California county and makes clear
realized their job was to protect and serve funds. This was a historic vote for LAUSD that disparities can be found in all corners
all of Los Angeles’ residents. and a game-changer for the district’s of the Golden State across seven key issues
high-need students – just as Brown vs. areas. Now, anyone can get a more complete
Board of Education was a watershed picture of racial equity in California than
moment for school desegregation, this was has ever been available.
a pivotal moment for equity-based
budgeting.
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PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANT
2018
STUDENTS
We and our partners created the Welcoming
& Safe Schools for All model resolution for
the California Department of Education,
2019
SHIFTING MONEY TO HIGHEST-NEED SCHOOLS which protects the rights of immigrant ENSURING LOS ANGELES COUNTS
In partnership with Community Coalition students, students of color, students of faith, Imagine the 2020 Census being more than
and InnerCity Struggle, we formed the and LGBTQ students. The resolution just a count, but also an opportunity for
Equity Alliance for LA’s Kids to shift provides commitments for local education community-based organizations to help
millions of dollars per year to LA’s high and agencies to take action in three broad areas residents lead policy change in their own
highest need schools. Together, we were to proactively uplift welcoming and safe neighborhoods. That’s at the core of what
able to direct $263 million to schools with schools for all students – Safety and the Los Angeles Regional Census Table is
Black and Brown youth. The Equity Protection, Supports and Services, and doing. In partnership with organizations
Alliance for LA’s Kids continues to fight the Affirming and Celebrating Diversity. like Long Beach Forward and LA Voice, we
district’s status quo budgetary policies that created a space for collaboration and
often leave predominantly low-income INCREASING ACCESS TO EARLY CARE AND leadership development not just to ensure a FOUGHT FOR TASK FORCE TO CREATE YOUTH
Black and Latino students to bear the brunt EDUCATION FACILITIES fair, accurate 2020 Census count, but to DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
of historical disinvestments and We need bold solutions to realize the vision fortify the connections that make Our work alongside other Invest in Youth
short-sighted political in-fighting. Our of every baby and toddler in Los Angeles power-building possible. coalition members helped bring about LA
alliance is an example of how having access to high-quality early learning We’ve also been able to win historic budget City Council’s unanimous vote approving a
community-based organizations need to opportunities. That’s why we worked with allocations of over $180 million in state motion to establish a Youth Development
hold elected officials and policymakers the Los Angeles County Board of funding with our Census Policy Advocacy Task Force. This executive task force would
accountable to the people they serve. Supervisors to unanimously pass a motion Network partners in support of 2020 devise a citywide strategy to prioritize our
to assess County-owned properties Census outreach. youth and invest in their futures. Today,
INVESTING IN YOUTH IN LONG BEACH available to be used for future early care and 25% of LA’s youth live in poverty and over
Our partnership with community-based education services. Because of this motion, SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATED FOR PARK EQUITY 3,000 are homeless; the motion goes to a
organizations on the Invest in Youth Long child care centers across the county can With our partners, we brought over 300 public vote in December, and if passed, will
Beach campaign led the City of Long Beach begin to shorten their wait lists and help residents to an LA County Board of make sure these vulnerable kids get the
to begin developing a strategic plan to families in urgent need of support. Supervisors meeting to successfully resources they need to thrive.
support youth development programs. When advocate for park equity guidelines that will
youth have the support they need to grow, create more parks in communities that have LAPD VOWS TO END DISCRIMINATORY POLICE
learn, and cope through challenging times, borne the brunt of past disinvestment. This STOPS
they are able to succeed and thrive. is a major step forward to creating vibrant, We became a member of PUSH LA, a
green communities, especially for children coalition formed in response to decades of
BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS TO BETTER and older residents in park-poor areas. racist policing that has plagued Black and
EDUCATION Brown communities in Los Angeles.
We believe breaking down barriers between Launched after data analyses in the Los
education systems is the key to achieving Angeles Times revealed that the LAPD
the vision of fully-resourced schools that Metro Division officers stopped and
fairly compensate educators and provide arrested Black people at a rate more than
our kids with a quality education. That is five times their share of the city’s
why we created the Birth to Twelfth Grade population, we were able to successfully get
Water Cooler Conference, a first-of-its-kind the department to change its policy and
event uniting over 250 of California’s top drastically cut back on random stops.
policy leaders and practitioners from all
across the educational landscape.
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THANK Y
Morgan Stanley
National Association for
ACLU of Southern California Latino Community Asset
Adams O'Connell Family Builders
$500-$999 Asset Management National Public Education
Anonymous Alfred C. Munger Foundation Support Fund
P O R T ERS! Juan Ballar
Sarah Barnard
Alfred E. Mann Family
Foundation
Para Los Niños
Pasadena Community
A L U E D SUP Kafi & The Hon. Bob
Blumenfield
Alianza Coachella Valley
Alliance for College-Ready
Foundation
Public Interest Management
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Steve Clare & Susan Millmann Public Schools Group
O Roberta Conroy Alliance for Early Success Richard C. Seaver Charitable
THANK Y
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be r 1 , 20 L. Lloys Frates Alvarez Porter Group Trust
iv e d fr o m Nove m The Hon. Janice Hahn Ballmer Group Rosenberg Foundation
rece ns The Hon. Earl Johnson Brittingham Family S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
on c o ntributio Robert & Marilyn Johnson Foundation Sarah Barnard Design
Listin gs bas e d Steven J. Kaplan & Janet Bush Gottlieb SEED Collaborative
Levine California Community SEIU Local 2015
Wanda Killian & Mark Fuller Foundation Social Action Partners
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS Michael Dreyer Ruth Eliel & Bill Cooney
The Hon. Sheila James Kuehl California Teachers Stein Early Childhood
The Hon. Mark Ridley-Thomas Selwyn Gerber
The Hon. Marqueece Sharon & Mitchell Litt Association Development Fund
$50,000 and above Harris-Dawson David Minning & Diane Camarillo Chiropractic & Stuart Foundation
Paula & Barry Litt $2,500-$4,999 Wittenberg Rehab The Annenberg Foundation
José Alvarez Wendelyn Killian
Molly Munger & Stephen R. Mark Mulholland Community Coalition The California Endowment
Jennifer Arceneaux & Alberto John Kim & Jung Hee Choi
English Gretchen Nelson Community Partners The California Wellness
Retana Katharine King
Tom & Janet Unterman Patsy & Joe Ostroy ConnectUNow Foundation
Jennifer & Royce Diener Robert Kitson
Pearl Lattaker Katherine Peck Danning, Gill, Diamond & The Eli and Edythe Broad
Helen Kim Ann & Thomas Pfister Kollitz, LLP Foundation
$20,000-$49,999 Liz Levitt Hirsch Lisa Ling & Paul Song
Cindy Miscikowski Douglas & Emilie Ogden Kevin Prindiville David & Lucile Packard The James Irvine Foundation
Marc Seltzer Vickie Ramos Harris & John Foundation The Mortimer & Mimi Levitt
Charles T. Munger Sibyl O'Malley
Carol Sobel K. Harris Edison International Foundation
Wendy Munger & Leonard Manuel Pastor & Betsy
The Hon. Hilda Solis Frieda Rapoport Caplan First 5 LA The Myers Law Group, A.P.C.
Gumport Hamilton
Barbra Streisand The Hon. Barbara Reeves Gerber & Co. The North Ridge Foundation
Lauren & Paul B. Scott Kim Pattillo Brownson & Omar
Brownson Neal Glaser Weil LLP The Ring Foundation
$1,000-$2,499 Sarah Pillsbury Karen & Edward Safford Heising-Simons Foundation The Sobrato Family
$10,000-$19,999 Robert & Sara Adler Amy Sausser & Jerry Soto Imprenta Communications Foundation
Sonja Berggren & Patrick Seaver Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs
Anonymous Scott M. Schaffer Lorraine Sheinberg Group The Streisand Foundation
Patricia Glaser Dean Tipps InnerCity Struggle The William and Flora
Celia Bernstein & Brad Kesden George Schulman
Bill Lann Lee & Brenda Lowe Martha Tolles InPartnership Consulting Hewlett Foundation
Louise & John Brinsley Maria Seferian
Wong Barbara Wagner & The Hon. Joseph and Jacqueline The Women's Foundation of
Ella & Scott Brittingham Dahni Tsuboi & Pete Manzo
Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Charlie Palmer Kirshbaum Memorial Fund California
Stephanie & Harold Bronson Mary-Jane Wagle
Abby Sher Shana Weiss & John Silva Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams UFCW Local 770
Louis Camarillo Belinda Smith Walker & Jack
Karla & Richard Chernick Walker Henry & Margie Yost Family Foundation USC Program for
$5,000-$9,999 Nancy L. Cohen & Jonathan Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Environmental and Regional
Aileen Adams & Geoffrey Parfrey Litt, LLP Equity
Cowan Renee Dake Wilson & Brian CORPORATE, L.A. Voice VOX Productions
Mary Adams O'Connell & Kevin Wilson Learning Policy Institute W. M. Keck Foundation
O'Connell Carol Eliel & Tom Muller
FOUNDATION, & Legal Aid Foundation of Los Weingart Foundation
NONPROFIT SUPPORTERS Angeles
Liberty Hill Foundation
Achieving America Family
Foundation
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T E ME N T T E M E N T
NCI A L S TA NCI A L S TA
01 8 F IN A 01 8 F IN A s ition
2 of A c t i vities 2 of Fin
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Statem Statem
SUPPORT and REVENUE ASSETS
UNRESTRICTED TEMPORARILY TOTAL Cash 1,976,534
RESTRICTED
Contracts 221,138 - 221,138 Contributions and grants receivable 1,407,609
Contributions 944,378 55,410 999,789 Prepaid expenses and other assets 65,966
Grants 70,000 4,420,460 4,490,460 Investments 1,114,022
Other income 140,090 - 140,090 Net Property and Equipment 121,599
Net assets released TOTAL ASSETS $4,685,730
4,748,233 (4,748,233) -
from restrictions
TOTAL SUPPORT and REVENUE $6,123,839 ($272,363) $5,851,476
EXPENSE LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Program services 5,164,580 - - Liabilities
Administration and fundraising 975,479 - - Accounts payable and accrued expenses 1,444,518
TOTAL EXPENSE $6,140,058 - - Net assets
Unrestricted 644,304
Change in net assets (16,219) (272,363) (288,582) Temporarily restricted 2,596,908
Net assets December 31, 2017 660,522 2,869,272 3,529,794 Total net assets 3,241,212
Net assets December 31, 2018 $644,304 $2,596,908 $3,241,212 TOTAL LIABILITIES and NET ASSETS $4,685,730
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201 9 REC TORS
RD OF DI
BO A Executive Director
John Kim
Founding Co-Directors
Molly Munger Stephen R. English Constance L. Rice
Board President Board Secretary & Treasurer Boardmember
Board of Directors
BillLann
Bill LannLee,
Lee,Chair
Chair José Alvarez Harry Belafonte
CivilEnforcement
Civil Rights & Education
Rights & Education CenterCenter Alvarez Porter Group Belafonte Enterprises, Inc.
Arlene Holt Baker Helen Kim Daniel Alejandro Leon-Davis
AFL-CIO (Retired) RoadMap Consulting The Soze Agency
Barry Litt Katherine Peck Alberto Retana
Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt LLP Civic Participation Action Fund Community Coalition
Rinku Sen Tom Unterman Jesse Williams
Author and Strategist Rustic Canyon Partners Actor, Activist, and Entrepreneur
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
Highlander Research & Education Center
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