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APPLIED RESEARCH CENTER
advancing
 
racial
 
 justice
 
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advocacy
 
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With yOuR help,
ARC canbecome the home or RacialJustice that our country urgentlyneeds. We’ve developed a strat-egy to reach that goal, and we’vemade progress. To carry out ourmost ambitious plans, we needto build a more complex, morepowerul organization in 2010.With unding rom oundationsdecreasing in this economy, werely even more on you, ARC’s al-lies and supporters, to recognizethe critical importance o this political moment and to give us thefnancial capacity to do more o the work you know only ARC does.The political landscape is shiting daily, with voices or equityfghting against those who would keep the status quo. It’s moreimportant than ever that we popularize the idea o racial justiceand produce the tools needed to make it a reality. Everyonewho started this year hoping or change is now looking or away to make a real impact, and ARC can help the racial justicemovement to take the lead.In 2009, we have been preparing to fll this need by distributingour media projects widely, producing new research and trainings,and dramatically expanding our audience base. Loyal supporterslike you have responded by using ARC’s reports, participating inour conerence and national phone calls, and sharing RaceWireand
ColorLines 
with your communities. Our 2008 Facing RaceConerence was our biggest yet, and our web products are morepopular than ever, reaching up to 100,000 people monthly.Our successes are cause to celebrate but not to rest easy. Thechallenges ahead—rom new strategies by the right wing to thelabel o a “colorblind” society—require even more rom us. Wemust grow as an organization so that we can grasp all the politicalopportunities to fght or equity. This is crunch time.There is no way or us to expand ARC without your help. Anyamount you give will be extremely useul at this critical moment.I know I can count you in as we develop our programs to ensurethat racial justice is among our nation’s top priorities. 
A Letter from the President Andexecutive director, rinku sen
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AwArds And AccoLAdes
nORth stAR neWs pRize.
 ARC’s executive director, Rinku Sen, along withEllis Cose, contributing editor and columnist or
Newsweek 
, have been selected as the 2009-2010 recipients o the North Star News Prize.Inspired by the lie and work o FrederickDouglass, the North Star Fund is New YorkCity’s leading community oundation and aferce supporter o grassroots movements thatbolster struggling neighborhoods and fghtagainst the root causes o poverty, racism,homophobia and gender discrimination.The North Star News Prize recognizesjournalists, mediamakers and communicationsproessionals o color who have made a signif-cant contribution to the public’s understand-ing o the struggle or social justice. The worko North Star News Prize winners inspires usto crat a world by the principles o airness,inclusion, peace and justice.The News Prize comes to Rinku at a particu-larly crucial time in ARC’s organizational his-tory, as we transition to a more media-ocusedorganization in order to broaden our reach andaudience, and enhance our ability to popularizeracial justice concepts.You can learn more about the News Prizeand read Rinku’s blog post about what winningthe News Prize means to her atwww.arc.org/northstarnews.
 
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Arc uPdAtes
CHANGING THE RACE
ARC has released
Changing the Race: Racial Politics and the Election of Barack Obama 
,edited by Linda Burnham,coounder o the Women oColor Resource Center.This election reader comesjust as the nation debateswhether the aggressive criticismo President Obama over thepast ew months is rooted inracism, and it oers a nuancedcritique o his role in ourongoing struggles or justice.
Changing the Race 
eatures essays by 20 prominentthinkers and activists with decades o commitment to thosestruggles, as the writers identiy the trends, the lessons, theacts and the lies surrounding the 2008 election.Get your ree copy online or purchase a hard copy or$9 atwww.arc.org/changingtherace.
cALL for interns
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funderthAnks List
In addition to you, our deepgratitude goes out to our recentinstitutional unders who havegiven us the tools to builda home or racial justice. In2009, they included:
• Akonadi Foundation
 
• Arcus Foundation
 
• The California Endowment
 
• Marguerite Casey Foundation
 
• Ford Foundation
 
• Mitchell Kapor Foundation• W.K. Kellogg Foundation• Open Society Institute• Surdna Foundation• Unitarian Universalist Veatch
Program at Shelter Rock 
thank yo
BoArd trAnsitions
ARC’s ability to play its unique role in making new paths toward racial justice hasalways depended in no small part on the expertise, commitment and sacrifceso our board members. At the end o this year, three women who have helped toshape ARC will be leaving the board. We will miss the great energy and dedicationthat Susan Colson, Esmeralda Simmons and Carol Pencke bring to the fght or ra-cial justice. Susan has been board chair or most o ARC’s history and has lent herorganizational development experience to guide us through numerous leadershipand growth transitions. Esmeralda has contributed her experience and leadershipin many ways, especially in the areas o voting rights, public policy and redistrict-ing. Carol has generously shared her expertise in organizationaldevelopment and undraising at both the sta and board levels,successully strengthening ARC’s individual donor eorts. Thankyou all or your endless contributions, and we look orward toyour uture involvement as ARC continues to renew itsel.We are confdent that our new board members will makeequally vital contributions: ARC is pleased and proud to welcomeDeepa Iyer and Deanna Zandt. Deepa is the executive directoro South Asian Americans Leading Together(SAALT) and has been an advocate o civil andimmigration rights or over ten years. Deanna is a media technolo-gist who specializes in social media and women and technology.Rinku Sen,
President 
 Dorian Warren,
Chair 
Ellen Gurzinsky,
Vice-Chair 
LeeAnn Hall,
Secretary/Treasurer 
Andrea Batista-Schlesinger
Victor Goode
Deepa IyerChristopher RabbDeanna ZandtGary Delgado,
Emeritus 
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Deanna ZandtDeepa Iyer
[ARC updates continued on next page] 
 
 
TORN ApART SERIES
Against a backdrop o anational debate on immi-gration reorm,
ColorLines 
 magazine went on the roadrom New York to Jamaicato investigate the humancosts o deportation onimmigrant communities.
ColorLines 
journalistsound that harsh immigra-tion policy, compoundedby systemic inequitiesin the criminal justicesystem, might not bethwarting terrorists or making our country saer. Instead, theyare increasingly breaking up amilies o color through height-ened enorcement that punishes amilies twice, frst throughincarceration, and second by deportation. The resulting “TornApart” article series and multimedia project eaturing videoand photo essay is online atwww.colorlines.com/tornapart.
MEDIA pROJECTS
ARC is deep into a productive Fall lineup or media projects.
We’re putting together a pilot TV show with LinkTV about race
and recession to air in mid-December; ARC board memberand ounder o aronetizen.com Chris Rabb will be host-ing the show. The RaceWire and
ColorLines 
websites will berelaunched as a single website in January. We are making im-provements to ARC’s technical and media inrastructure withmajor upgrades to our databases, server technology, videoproduction techniques and much more. A key 2010 projectin ARC’s eort to popularize racial justice is innovating andtesting new media products geared towards young, politicallyengaged people who use media to make change. I you areinterested in being part o our product testing program in2010, please contact Nayana Sen atsenn@arc.orgIn addition to all the ARC websites having an upward trendin trafc in the past year, our video content is getting goodpickup. The “Word” video series has gotten noticed andplayed on a variety o blogs. You can watch them online at:youtube.com/racialjustice.
GREEN ECONOMY TOOLKIT
The frst phase o ARC’s Green Economy Toolkit was re-leased in November and includes core equity principles,equity goals and success indicators or grassroots orga-nizations to use to promote racial, gender and economicequity in their communities. It is accompanied by apromotional video, as well as by a case study on greenjobs in Los Angeles. The release will be ollowed by anARC-sponsored webinar introducing the toolkit and itsuses to grassroots organizers.
ARc ReleAses cOMing sOOn:
STATE REpORT CARDS
While some are tryingto keep hope alivein the White House,ARC allies are makingracial equity happenat the statehouse.Five years ago, ARCreleased the frst leg-islative report card onracial equity in Cali-ornia. Fast-orwardto 2009: groups romNevada, Washington,
Idaho, Minnesota,
Illinois, New York, Caliornia, Connecticut and Georgiahave now ormed a national Racial Equity cohort.This year, the Organizing Apprenticeship Project
of Minnesota and Citizen Action of New York have
released state-level racial equity reports. Caliornia,
Illinois and Minnesota have released their fth, second
and third reports, respectively. And, allies at ColoradoProgressive Coalition and the Progressive LeadershipAlliance o Nevada released legislative racial equityreport cards this year. At ARC, we’re working to releasean interactive mapping website or the Illinois Legisla-tive Report card on Racial Equity. By Spring 2010,Idaho and Washington Community Action Networks
and the United Congress of Community and Religious
Organizations o Chicago will release their state reports.In April, ARC organized a special training or thegroups, ater which they ormed the National RacialEquity Report Card Cohort. The ormation has devel-oped a peer consulting structure that allows them toshare best practices. And there is more to come—more groups, more action and more equity.
A Rar cr 3
Check ot or blog at RaceWire.org
[ARC updates continued] 
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