The Advancement Project

The Advancement Project

"Advancement Project, a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice, was founded by a team of veteran civil rights lawyers in 1998."

"This initiative addresses a bedrock racial justice issue: expanding the active electorate. Our work focuses on increasing democratic participation in low-income and minority communities by investigating obstacles to voter participation and providing mechanisms for removing those obstacles, generating reform efforts that seek to expand opportunities for democratic participation, building support for a more transformational solution for re-enfranchising formerly incarcerated people, and facilitating alliances among multi-racial groups."

They are an allied member of the Right to the City.

Funding
In 2006 the Ford Foundation gave the Project $600,000.

Directors

 * Chair - Gerald Torres - University of Texas
 * President - Molly Munger - Co-Director, Advancement Project
 * Secretary/Treasurer - Stephen R. English - Co-Director, Advancement Project
 * Jose Alvarez (Joe Alvarez) - Northeast Regional Director, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
 * Harry Belafonte- Belafonte Enterprises, Inc.
 * Angela Glover Blackwell- President, PolicyLink
 * Bonifacio Garcia (Bonny Garcia- Partner, Burke, Williams & Sorenson, LLP
 * Penda D. Hair - Co-Director, Advancement Project
 * Johnnie Johnson - Executive Director, Drew Community Voter's League
 * Bill Lann Lee - Partner, Leif, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein
 * Michael Lawson - Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
 * William Lynch - President, Bill Lynch Associates, LLC
 * Connie Rice, Esq. - Co-Director, Advancement Project
 * Sheila Thomas

Contact details
1730 M Street, NW #910 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 728-9557 Fax: (202) 728-9558 Email: ap AT advancementproject.org Web: http://www.advancementproject.org

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