We held the first National Capacity Building Symposium of the Obama Era this day

The Start of the National Fairness Campaign

National Capacity Building Symposium

"A Retrospective & Best Practices Identification"

Part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Fairness Campaign

Convener of the National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee

Dr. Robert Day

President of the Center for Urban & Rural Development

Where: PRESIDENT WILLIAM H TAFT HISTORIC SITE

2038 Auburn Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45219

Saturday January 31, Cincinnati, Ohio 8:00 AM - 4:00PM

National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee

• General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC)
• Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign
• Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change
• Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
• Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural Development
• Executive Coordinator, Michael Cole, President, Thouh Communications

Ohio is a focal point because it is middle America, and has demonstrated past and current innovations to address fairness and capacity building, including state government minority business development programs, initiatives to increase the budget for the African American males commission, and the recent appointment of a non government "infrastructure czar" to oversee Ohio's portion of the proposed American reinvestment & recovery program.

MORNING SESSION
8:00AM-11:00 AM

50 YEAR REVIEW & ANALYSIS

Office of Equal Opportunity [OEO], Affirmative Action, Setasides, Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets Tax Credits, Business Development Programs, Empowerment Zones, Model Cities, CDBG, DOL Workforce Development Grants, Community Action Agencies, Structures, Approaches, and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity Building. The Fairness Campaign will review past political agreements and governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment under an Obama Presidency. The Fairness Campaign will also identify and address historic moral gaps.

WHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?
Among the issues to be reviewed -

• War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964,, Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (Model Cities), Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1968
• Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors Strategy
• Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions
• Public Law 95-507 and modifications
• Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE
• The Small Business Investment Act and Minority capitalization programs such as Specialized SBIC’s [MSBIC’S]
• Construction Apprenticeship Programs
• Small Business Administration (SBA) and other business economic and technical assistance programs
• CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corp, Vista
• Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones
• National and Regional Purchasing Councils
• Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint ventures, and mentor protégés
• Non capacity building pass-throughs, fronts, and joint ventures

A WORKING LUNCH
11:00AM-12:30 PM

AFTERNOON SESSION
12:45PM – 4:00PM

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

BEST PRACTICES FOR FAIRNESS: JOBS AND CAPACITY BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE – LEED [GREEN/ENERGY] – REDEVELOPMENT

• Access to Capital & Credit: Dr. Robert Day, Dr. Herb Smith and the Institute for Open Economic Networks
• Commercial, Retail and Residential Development: Irvin Henderson, President The Henderson Company
• Construction and LEED Buildings: Fred Hargrove, PE. MBA, President, Hargrove Engineering, LLC with invited - Small, Medium and Large Contractors
• Next Generation Workforce Development and the American Labor Market: Bill McCoy, President, The McCoy Company; George B. Edwards, Founder & President, Black Trades Council of Ohio Invited – construction craftspeople including union members, apprentice and journeymen, along with workforce policy makers.
• Health Policy Options and Telemedicine: Mark Batson, Executive Director, PolicyBridge [think-tank]; Carl White, President The Net Video
• Broadband America and SMART Buildings: Hershel Daniels, Junior, Co-Founder MDi and invited Technologists

4:00PM NEXT STEPS
ADJOURNMENT