African American Community Empowerment Initiative

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About

The African American Community Empowerment Initiative (AACEI) was launched in 2012 to address, prevent and remediate the negative impact of the out-migration of the African American community in San Francisco and finally implement the findings and recommendations of numerous reports, spanning more than two decades. The goal of this initiative is to ensure greater inclusiveness and representation of the African American community at the policy and decision-making level where the community is disproportionally impacted and foster the retention of African Americans in San Francisco. More specifically, the initiative seeks to:

• Establish a city-wide cultural competency and sensitivity action plan; creating a Minority Youth Economic, Civic and Vocational Internship/Mentorship Program; 
• Develop a mechanism whereby City leaders and agencies have to inform the community of any potential action plans that advance the City’s commitment to implement the recommendations found in the various disparity reports; 
• Create opportunities for African American community stakeholders to experience the behind the scenes methodology by which public policy is created; and 
• Direct greater resources to Community Benefits Organizations and non-profits that can assist in community development and economic growth.  

In order to implement the goals of the AACEI, the HRC has facilitated the creation of the African American Leadership Council (AALC), a self-selected community action committee consisting of community stakeholders that can serves as a conduit between the African American Community and City government. The AALC currently consists of five issue-specific working groups. They are: 

• Education 
• Health, Human Service and Transportation Committee 
• Housing and Economic Development 
• Arts and Culture 
• Public Safety

The success of the AALC is dependant largely on the participation and activism of its members and HRC highly encourages members of the community to participate in the AALC and/or any of its working sub-groups.

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 Meetings

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 Resources

• Progress Report-African American Community Empowerment Initiative (8-29-12)
• Equity Advisory Committee & HRC African American Quality of Life Report Comparsion 2011 (11-17-11)
• USA Today: Blacks' Exodus Reshapes Cities (5-19-11) 
• San Francisco Demographic Report (2010)
• San Francisco Census Report 2010 
• Report of the San Francisco Mayor’s Task Force on African-American Out-Migration (2009)
• Top 10 Cities for African Americans 2007 

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Contact

For more information, please contact David Miree at (415) 252 2502 or David.Miree@sfgov.org.

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