Research Reports
Racing the Statehouse Finds Solutions for Racial Inequity Available to States
Facing Race: 2009 Legislative Report Card is a project of the Applied Research Center and the Community Development Institute (CDI).
ARC's 2007 Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity, by Jarad Sanchez and Tammy Johnson.
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Building healthy, sustainable and equitable communities, and by extension a strong nation, requires civic and social engagement of community members. Civic and social engagement, in turn, requires leadership to create engagement opportunities and to facilitate it. There are many forms of community leadership, including electoral, nonprofit, associational and informal leadership. All are important. In particular, this report focuses on nonprofit, associational and informal leadership capacity: its successes, its needs and the nature and level of investment indicated to support leadership in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi which can help meet community building goals.
In order to solve a problem, we must know the problem. The problem in the Gulf Coast in August 2005 was not a hurricane. The levees broke and too many people were poor, sick and unable to flee. The “problem” is man-made, and this is good news. We can solve problems we create.
The Applied Research Center has released its study, “Check the Color
Line - Income Report” in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment. The Applied Research Center (ARC) and the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) developed the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment following ARC’s 2004 publication of Short Changed: Foundation Giving in Communities of Color.
This report tells the stories of people of color who are disproportionately affected by the recession. It uncovers the root causes and proposes solutions.
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From our media section, three videos exploring the mutual goals of the racial justice and green economy movements.
In this essay for Applied Research Center's Compact for Racial Justice, Van Jones writes on the importance of green jobs to the racial justice movement, in terms of environmental impact and economic impact. For more essays, videos, press, and conversations about the Applied Research Center's Compact for Racial Justice, visit arc.org/compact.
Applied Research Center's Terry Keleher provides this list of resources from several organizations, breaking down the politics behind the stimulus bill, and the opportunities in its application. For more essays, videos, press, and conversations about the Applied Research Center's Compact for Racial Justice, visit the Compact for Racial Justice page.
Colorlines.com's special edition on the green economy March/April 2008, features cover story "Who Gains from the Green Economy?" by Preeti Mangala Shekar and Tram Nguyen. It asks what the racial justice movement and the green jobs movement have to gain from working together.
The Applied Research Center (ARC) released the findings of its second annual Facing Race: Illinois Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity 2007-2008. Download a PDF of the report here.
Our regions thrive when people throughout the region thrive. People thrive when their communities have what all communities need for healthy growth – clean air and water, affordable and decent housing, living wage jobs, quality public schools, and quality healthcare. The health and prosperity of the Columbia region are critical to South Carolina, the South, and the country. By investing in the health and economic well-being of all its people, the Columbia region could lead the way for the South and the nation.
Across the Nation, families of color earn less income, have higher poverty rates and attain college degrees at lower rates as compared to white people. New York mirrors these national trends.
A summary of racial justice bills moving through the California legislature in 2006.