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Supporting Policy Advocacy: CTF's Involvement in Proposition 54

Considered an effort to weaken Affirmative Action, Proposition 54 became a ballot initiative in 2003.
“We had to fight Prop 54,” says CTFC Board member Anni Chung, “because without the data, how do you know which community suffers the most?

“The issue was so central to our work and that of our grantees,” says CTFC Board Chairman Jacquelyn Brand. “Being unable to gather data, to just be ignorant about information, would be a terrible threat to our effectiveness.”

Tags: CTFC, civic engagement, immigrants, policy, Tessie Guillermo, advocacy, Prop 54, Community Technology Foundation of California, Anni Chung, human rights, Jackie Brand

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Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative

The Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative aspires to capture innovations that can advance social change. It strives to create a new paradigm among the nonprofit sector, the hip-hop community, private industry and activists vis-a-vis how they think about social justice issues and how they might better work together.

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Tags: CTFC, Hip Hop, Social Justice, Technology, Media, Youth, ZeroDivide

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Youth, Technology, and Silencing the violence

By John Hayes on 20 April 2007 - 1:38pm

Thought this would interest people: Former CTFC grantee the Ella Baker Center’s Silence the Violence project is still working hard to involve youth and media technology to stop the flood of violence in Oakland. Recent events include Turf Unity (a youth media training), a fundraiser at the home of former Oakland City Council candidate Aimee Allison, and the kick-off 2007 Silence the Violence party.