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International Youth Foundation
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FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION COVER SHEET
Please call (616) 969-0033 with transmission difficulties
Date:
3 March 1993
Fax: 202-456-6420
To:
Susan Stroud
From:
Don Mohanial, Chief Operating Officer
Directions:
Mr. Dick Schubert, President of the Points of Light Foundation and Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the International Youth Foundation (IYF), has asked me to fax to you the 26
January press release announcing the formation of Heal L.A. and additional background
information on IYF.
Should you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to
call me at (616) 969-0033.
67 West Michigan Avenue Suite 608
Battle Creek, Michigan 49017 USA
Phone (616) 969-0033
Fax (616) 969-9845
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Modia Relations:
Pat Harris
Pereiman, Pioneer & Company
5757 Wilshire Boulevard #540
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(213) 965-4904
Fax (213) 965-4919
HealtheWORLd
January 26, 1993
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
1-800-HEAL-123 (FOR DONATIONS ONLY)
HEAL L.A.
HEAL L.A. TO MOBILIZE SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN
IN DISADVANTAGED LOS ANGELES AREAS
First phase of national initiative of the Heal the World
and International Youth Foundations
to be co-chaired by Michael Jackson and Jimmy Carter
LOS ANGELES (January 26) - Reinforcing the importance of President Clinton's Inaugural call for
Americans to care for one another, the Heal The World Foundation and the International Youth
Foundation today announced a plan to provide support to children living in disadvantaged areas of
American cities.
Already active in numerous foreign countries, the two foundations will focus their first domestic
project, "Heal L.A.", in Los Angeles. This unprecedented collaborative effort for children, and the
national program - -- "Heal Our Children" -- that will follow, is co-chaired by Michael Jackson and
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, founders of the non-profit Hcal The World Foundation and
Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, respectively.
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HEAL L.A. program announced, page 2
Significant resources have been committed by several major organizations including Heal The
World, the International Youth Foundation, the BEST Foundation, the National Football Lcague,
and Frito-Lay.
To develop an action plan for children in disadvantaged areas of L.A. -- including South Central and
East L.A. areas an initial coalition of L.A.-based providers of children's services. enhanced by
national youth-serving organizations, has emerged to undertake three initial programs in the first
year:
Drug Prevention and Education - The BEST foundation, in response to NFL and Frito-Lay gifts,
has pledged $500,000 through Heal L.A. to implement their comprehensive and proven drug
prevention and education curriculum in L.A. schools. Through this effort, BEST and Heal L.A.
will reach at least 72,000 children aged 7-15 in the first year. The BEST program will be
complemented by the introduction of the Partnership for A Drug Free America's new youth-oriented
Inner-City Program;
Immunization - 15,000 children will receive vaccines during the first year as the result of an
effort lcd principally by the Los Angeles Immunization Coalition. The Coalition is comprised of
AltaMed Services Corporation, Watts Health Foundation and the Asian Pacific Health Care Venture
and others. Heal L.A. will involve national organizations, such as the Carter Center and the
Children's Action Network National Immunization Campaign to help accomplish this critical goal;
and
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Mentoring - Established national youth mentoring organizations including The One to One
Partnership, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America, Cities in Schools, Education Firstl, their local
counterparts, other L.A.-based mentoring organizations and a consortium of local universities,
religious institutions, corporations, and civic organizations are committed to working with the Los
Angeles Unified School District to develop 3,000 new mentoring relationships building upon a
model effort already working at Horace Mann Middle Junior High School in South Central Los
Angeles.
Each aspect of the first phase of the Heal L.A. project is planned to be underway by April 29. one
year after the civil disturbances began in Los Angeles. Each of these, as well as numerous
additional program goals, will be attained within one year thereafter.
The financial commitments announced today will initially target achievement of the first three
program areas of the Heal L.A. initiative.
Implementation of these three program efforts will rely upon local expertise and experience. It is
anticipated that the coalition undertaking the initial three programs will evolve into an entity that
will develop a five-year strategic plan and budget that empowers children and their community to
optimize their eventual chances of becoming self-sufficient.
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HEAL L.A. program announced, page 4
Additional program components may include (but are not limited to) building housing for families of
homeless children, an inner-city youth service corps, a campaign to encourage young fathers of
children to acknowledge their paternal responsibilities, inner-city youth academies, and others.
The Mayor's Office, Rebuild L.A., and many other community organizations have warmly
embraced this unique children's strategy and have agreed to assist in the planning and
implementation of the undertaking.
Michael Jackson made available more than $1 million to initiate the Heal The World effort, and has
dedicated all of his proceeds from the sale of the "Heal The World" single and video to support
Heal L.A.'s delivery of relief services to Los Angeles children.
The NFL and Frito-Lay are also contributing $100,000 each to kick-off Heal L.A. through the Heal
The World Foundation. These gifts have, in turn, leveraged the BEST Foundation commitment of
$500,000.
Given these financial commitments, the International Youth Foundation announced that it would
provide matching funds of up to $1 million for those programs qualifying under International Youth
Foundation funding criteria.
In lieu of any compensation for his Super Bowl halftime appearance, Michael Jackson requested that
the NFL provide national and international television visibility for the powerful message of both
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HEAL L.A. program announced, page 5
"Heal The World" and the new "Heal L.A." initiative. This exposure, in the form of a televised 30
second public service announcement immediately following Michael's Super Bowl performance, will
be of inestimable value.
Additional funding to complete the comprehensive year-long project is being sought through a
national campaign to encourage individuals to make donations by calling 1-800-HEAL-123 toll-free.
Applications will also be made to corporations and foundations for funding.
President Carter commented, "Heal L.A. will reach out to perhaps the neediest and most
underserved population in this country - children. In addition to my personal participation in
Michael Jackson's extraordinary initiative, The Atlanta Project will explore ways to work with Heal
Our Children, beginning with Heal L.A., to assist children all over the country."
Michael Jackson responded that "I am so proud to have former President Jimmy Carter join me in
this important effort. The Heal L.A. strategy is complementary to the Carter Center's Atlanta
Project which helps people in U.S. inner cities take control of their own lives. I look forward to
working alongside the President to merge our ideas and resources to brighten children's lives."
In Los Angeles and in each city which follows, the Heal Our Children framework will include three
major elements:
Raising public awareness and assessing the needs of a particular city's children;
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HEAL L.A. program announced, page 6
Development of a one-year plan for concrete accomplishments; and
Development, by the end of the first year, of a five-year plan to expand the efforts within
each community to enable those most affected to sustain the programs begun or enhanced
during the first year of the effort.
The short term stimulus of "Heal L.A." and similar projects in major American cities will help to
accelerate the opportunities for long-term benefits, notably in cooperation with the Carter Center's
"Atlanta Project."
The Atlanta Project, a non-profit initiative of The Carter Center, was launched in late 1991 to
mobilize volunteers to fight poverty and related social ills in urban communities, including
homelessness, teen pregnancy, crime, drug abuse, and unemployment. The Atlanta Project hopes to
serve as a model for similar programs across the country.
Founded in 1990, the International Youth Foundation is dedicated to improving conditions and
prospects for the world's children and youth. It represents the coming together of leaders from
many nations to identify and support programs "that work" and are making a profound and lasting
difference in the lives of young people.
Hcal L.A. represents the International Youth Foundation's first Initiative in the U.S. and the starting
point for this vital new partnership, not only in the U.S., but in other countries around the world.
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HEAL L.A. program announced, page 7
As part of IYF's global network of partner organizations, Heal L.A. will be exposed to hundreds of
successful programs being identified by the Foundation around the world. Likewise, successful
approaches being implemented in Los Angeles will be shared internationally.
Under the leadership of Michael Jackson, the Heal the World Foundation stands behind a similar
mission to heal the world's problems by addressing issues related to, or involving children.
As operating partners, Heal The World Foundation and the International Youth Foundation will
serve as catalysts working with leaders in Los Angeles to address the urgent needs of children and
youth within the city.
United with a shared global vision, the Heal the World Foundation, the International Youth
Foundation and the Carter Center will work toward creating a better present and future for our
children. The ultimate goal of these efforts will be to try to create a healthy, safe and happy
environment for children in Los Angeles and other cities, while supporting existing local
organizations, and empowering communities to address these problems in a meaningful, ongoing
fashion. Additional elements will be incorporated to induce Americans to focus on what can be
accomplished when participants from every sector come together for the express purpose of healing
one city through the healing of our children.
# # #
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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) was established to bring
worldwide support to the many exceptional local efforts that are
changing young lives in every corner of the globe.
Though great progress has been made in keeping more children alive,
an ever greater proportion of them are growing up with little education,
job training, productive employment-or hope. Yet in many communities
around the world, Innovative programs are meeting these vital needs.
The challenge, then, is to magnify the scale of such efforts, to bring their
benefits to more young people.
The International Youth Foundation is a means to that ambitious end.
For young people between the ages of five and twenty, IYF identifies
effective programs and brings those programs to the attention of
corporations and other donors. To do so, IYF draws on the local expertise
of a worldwide network of affiliated foundations to ensure that the best
programs are both Identified and expanded.
The product of more than two years of work by some 300 leaders in
business, philanthropy, education, government and social service, IYF
was established in 1990. Today, with unprecedented support from its
founding donors, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and the Moore Foundation, IYF has enlisted a wide array of
international organizations and leaders in its efforts to enrich the lives of
the world's young people.
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WE LIVE TODAY
IN AN ECONOMY
WITHOUT BORDERS
Currencies, commodities,
Never has our future SQ
stocks and bonds now flow
heavily depended on a single
across the globe at the touch of
generation. Yet the youth
a computer key. A recession or
explosion offers an
budget deficit in one nation
unprecedented opportunity to
burdens nations everywhere.
renew the world's human
Likewise, the benefits of one
capital.
country's prosperity echo
All over the globe, there are
around the world.
hundreds of outstanding youth
As commerce has grown
programs, large and small.
beyond national boundaries,
These programs have proven
so too have our social
their ability to develop
responsibilities. No longer can
character, build confidence,
nations successfully barricade
encourage sclf-reliance and
themselves in fortresses of
foster a sense of community in
self-sufficiency. And no longer
the young people they serve.
can we ignore the needs of an
The challenge then, is to
emerging generation who will
expand the reach of such
shape our global economy.
programs-to build on what
The population trends
works. That task calls for 2
are staggering. By the year
new kind of international
2000, an estimated 1.5 billion
investment: an investment in
children will be born-four-
the vast human potential for
fifths of them in developing
knowledge, innovation and
countrics. For the first time in
growth.
modern history, more than
Simply put, this is the work
half the world's population
of the International Youth
will be under twenty, 2
Foundation.
demographic shift that will
have profound consequences
for the world economy.
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BUILDING ON
PROGRAMS THAT
WORK
Most of the problems that
professional development,
threaten young people
job skills and health education.
today-poverty, illiteracy.
In Mexico City, 20
substance abuse,
unconventional but remarkably
unemployment, crime,
successful program combines
sexually-transmitted disease-
on-site education, job training
respect no national
and counseling for street
boundaries. Their symptoms
children with complementary
may vary from country to
unining and counseling for
country, but they spring from
their parents. In just two years,
common roots. Fortunately,
it has aided hundreds of
these common problems give
children and their families.
rise to common solutions.
In Bangladesh, the poorest
In every country, innovative
segment of that nation's
and well-run programs are
population is finding new
bringing young people new
hope through the Bangladesh
opportunities. In the United
Rural Advancement Committee
Kingdom, for example, there is
(BRAC). Over the course of
the Prince's Youth Business
two decades, BRAC has set up
Trust. By combining expert
more than 6,000 informal
advice from corporate
primary schools, which now
executives with grants and
serve some 180,000 children.
investment capital, this
In a region where 65 percent
program teaches entrepreneurial
of students typically drop out
skills to young people all over
before they reach their fifth
Britain. In 1991 alone, the
grade, BRAC's schools have
Trust helped create more than
achieved an astounding 98
1,600 new businesses.
percent retention rate.
In Poland, a training project
The list of successes goes on
in the schools of Starachowice
and on. The problem is not 2
is helping some 2,000 students
lack of effective programs but
-and their teachers-gain the
rather that these programs
skills to succeed in that
reach too few. The International
country's emerging market
Youth Foundation serves as 2
economy. The program includes
catalyst to identify and expand
training and counseling in
these proven efforts.
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International Youth Foundation
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CREATING A
NETWORK OF
NATIONAL
FOUNDATIONS
Finding and funding successful
strengthen their work and
programs calls for local
expand their activities.
understanding. The
As a partner in these efforts.
International Youth
IYF provides the national
Foundation helps leaders in
foundations with matching
many countries create self-
grants to complement locally-
sustaining foundations
based funding. Moreover,
(organized on a national or
where successful programs in
regional basis) which in turn
one country could be of
identify and support the most
interest to another, IYF
effective local efforts. Each of
facilitates the exchange of
these indigenous foundations
ideas and information.
is administered by an
At present, the International
independent board of
Youth Foundation's partners
directors, made up of
include foundations in Mexico,
respected leaders from all
Poland and Ecuador; emerging
segments of society.
national partnerships in
The foundations compile,
Bangladesh, Thailand, the
and routinely update, a data
Philippines, Germany, Sweden
bank of the nation's most
and the United States; and 2
effective programs-programs
regional foundation in
that are truly making a
Southern Africa. Roughly 80
difference in the lives of young
percent of IYF's funds are
people. These programs are
directed toward developing
eligible to receive funding to
nations; the rest goes to
developed countries.
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NEW PARTNERSHIPS
FOR INTERNATIONAL
PHILANTHROPY
Corporations have a long
If, for example, a
history of aiding the
corporation wishes to support
communities and countries in
successful programs in Poland,
which they are based. Yet they
the Polish Youth Foundation
are often discouraged by the
can establish a fund bearing
difficulty of making charitable
the company's name. Through
investments outside their
other funds raised in the
home countries. In many
country and by IYF, the
cases, senior managers find it
national foundation can match
hard to identify which
the corporation's contribution
programs to support abroad,
and magnify the impact of its
or how to ensure accountability
investment. Moreover, at every
for their funding. Indeed,
stage, the Polish Youth
many private foundations and
Foundation and IYF monitor
government agencies face
the use of program funds to
similar obstacles.
guarantee accountability.
IYF helps such potential
By removing the traditional
donors look beyond their
obstacles to international grant
national borders to find
making, the International
exceptional programs. In
Youth Foundation can help
addition, IYF combines their
donors make a real difference
funds with those of other
abroad.
donors to increase their
impact and to ensure their
proper use.
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THE PROMISE OF A
NEW GENERATION
As the world's economy enters
will suffer an age of conflict,
the next century, the burden of
stagnation and despair-
its success will rest on a single
ultimately, the choice is ours.
generation-on the billions of
It all comes down to one
young people who will soon
question: How deeply and
become its chief producers
how wisely will we invest in
and consumers.
the future of our young
Today, however, the
people?
responsibility for their success
The International Youth
rests on our shoulders.
Foundation offers the present
Whether that new generation
generation an unparalleled
will be able to realize the post-
opportunity to transform our
Cold War promise of
best intentions into what may
international cooperation and
be our greatest hope.
prosperity. or whether they
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International Youth Foundation
Volunteers Attempt to Hit
Home on Immunization
Atlanta Project Kicks Off Door-to-Door Drive
teers who swept across neighbor-
By Barbara Vobejda
hoods here today in what organizers
Washington Post Staff Writer
said was the nation's most ambi-
ATLANTA, April 17-Melanie
tious effort to track down preschool
Sumlin stood outside the door of a
children who have not been immu-
public housing unit today, waiting
nized.
for the young mother she knew was
The volunteers, brought together
inside to answer her knock. But
by a group associated with former
there was no answer.
president Jimmy Carter, planned to
"Hey, baby, where's your mama?"
visit nearly 200,000 homes today
Sumlin asked a young boy playing in
and Sunday, create a computer reg-
front. "Go get your mama. It's
istry of children under age 6 and
about getting free Michael Jackson
urge their parents to bring them to
tickets if you take the babies to the
any of nearly four dozen immuniza-
clinic to get their shots. Tell her to
tion sites that will be open in the
Atlanta area next week.
please come to the door."
As an incentive, families who
The boy went in to talk to his
mother, but returned to say she
come in for their shots will get a
would not come to the door. So
free ticket to see pop star Michael
Jackson.
Sumlin filled out the questionnaire
The effort comes as the Clinton
the best way she could-sending
administration launches its own
the boy back and forth to his moth-
sweeping immunization initiative.
er for information on her children's
Organizers here said today's expe-
names, ages and whether they have
rience will serve as a model for the
been immunized.
rest of the nation.
Sumlin was among 6,600 volun-
That experience underscores that
the most daunting obstacle is not the
cost of the vaccines. It is finding the
CORRECTIONS
children who need them, persuading
BY BILLY HOWARD FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
parents to bring them in and encour-
aging public health clinics to make
Atlanta Project volunteers Wanda Truesdale and Rebecca Turbeville interview Regina Jackson and daughter TeErika Leaks, 4, as part of full-immunization program.
In some editions yester-
day, a news service report
the process easier. Volunteers found
incorrectly identified Donald
some parents oblivious to the need
where vaccines are offered for free
In the meantime, communities
Children swarmed around Sum-
Robert Cosby, chief of human ser-
C. Alexander as commission-
for immunization, others too bur-
or at a low fee, are often difficult to
across the country, like Atlanta, are
lin, a mother of four who lives in the
vices for the Metropolitan Washing-
er of internal revenue, a post
dened to battle the public health sys-
get to and open only on weekdays,
making innovative attempts to en-
project, and asked how they could
ton Council of Governments, said
he held from 1973 to 1977.
tem.
Woods said. In many cases, they
sure that the millions of preschool
get free concert tickets. Then she
similar, smaller-scale sweeps around
"We don't have parents beating
require parents to make appoint-
children are fully immunized.
would send them to get their moth-
the District have not brought signif-
down the door to bring these chil-
ments and force patients to wait
Those efforts include San Diego's
ers.
icant improvement in immunization
The gay rights march
dren in," said Diana Woods, a
hours in line. When parents bring
use of immunization "express lanes"
The effort here was initiated by
rates.
ere will be next Sunday.
spokeswoman at the Centers for
children in for other reasons, the
at public health clinics and the
The Atlanta Project, a community
"You can't sustain these major
'he day was incorrect in a
Disease Control and Prevention.
clinics often fail to use that oppor-
Phoenix area's use of mobile vans
organization begun two years ago
blitz activities," he said.
tory yesterday.
"We've come to finally realize that
tunity to update the child's immu-
parked at public libraries.
by Carter that is aimed at improv-
Kenneth Bart, director of the na-
the traditional way of sitting there
nizations.
In Philadelphia, officials success-
ing social and economic conditions
tional vaccine program office in the
4 Style article yesterday
waiting for these people to come to
"I hadn't been working, but now I
fully sought a broader legal inter-
in 20 neighborhoods here.
Department of Health and Human
us is not working that well. The
have the money," said Sandra Wil-
pretation allowing foster parents
While experts around the country
Services, said he sees the low im-
orrectly reported that
system is not user-friendly."
lis. who told volunteers she would
and other guardians-not just legal
praised the door-to-door campaign,
ne General Motors pick-
munization rates as a warning flag
trucks have been re-
Nationally, depending upon the
take her 3-year-old daughter,
parents-to give their consent for
they also cautioned that the prob-
"for a system in disrepair."
d. Federal safety offi-
community, the proportion of 2-
Teisa, to a clinic next week. "I'm
children to be immunized.
lem will be solved only with sus-
"If we can't deliver something as
have asked GM to re-
year-old children who are fully im-
sure she is behind. but I just
And here in Fulton County,
tained, long-term work.
simple, as cost-effective, such low-
e trucks, but the com-
munized ranges from 37 percent to
didn't have it."
where in some areas fewer than
"If you assume they reached ev-
technology, what else can we deliv-
resisting such a step.
56 percent, the Centers for Disease
President Clinton has proposed a
half of children under age 2 are im-
ery 2-month-old in Atlanta, and ev-
er?" he said.
Control and Prevention reported.
program that will cost $1.5 billion
munized, the effort sent volunteers
ery one got shots, the problem is,
Bart said the president's pro-
But in some inner-city neighbor-
in 1995 to purchase vaccines and
into their own neighborhoods. At
two months from now, that same
posed national tracking system
story last Sunday
hoods, as few as 10 percent of chil-
make them available to inoculate all
the downtown Grady Homes hous-
baby is going to need four more
could work much like car dealer-
Rebuild L.A., the
dren have been fully immunized.
American children against nine dis-
ing project, where Melanie Sumlin
doses of immunization," said Joseph
ships that keep computerized rec-
Raphael J. Sonen-
Such low rates-which contrib-
eases. The proposal also includes
was working, volunteers wearing
Liu, senior health associate at the
ords of buyers so they can notify
political scientist at
uted to a measles epidemic in the
$152 million to establish a national,
white T-shirts and holding shopping
Children's Defense Fund "If you
them of recalls or like dental offices
State University,
late 1980s-cannot be blamed sole-
computerized system that will track
bags full of information could be
don't remind the family then, then
that remind patients of appoint-
was misspelled.
ly on complacent parents, many ex-
immunizations for each child, begin-
seen everywhere. up and down the
every child could become vulner-
ments. "It's a national shame we ha-
perts say. Public health clinics,
ning at birth.
street and into the distance.
able to those diseases again."
ven't been able to do that."
MEMORANDUM
3 March 1993
To:
Eli Segal
From:
Susan Stroud
Re:
4 March meeting with VP Gore, Jimmy Carter, et al
Background
Heal LA is a joint effort of the Heal the World Foundation (Michael Jackson's
philanthropy), the International Youth Foundation, and the Carter Center to provide
support for children living in disadvantaged areas of Los Angeles. LA is the first city in
what will be the larger national program, Heal Our Children, which is co-chaired by
Michael Jackson and Jimmy Carter.
Heal LA will be announced in Los Angeles on April 29, one year after the civil
disturbances. Significant resources have been committed by Heal the World Foundation,
the International Youth Foundation, the BEST Foundation, the National Football League
and Frito-Lay. Additional resources will be raised from other public and private
resources.
The plan of action
The plan of action will focus on children in disadvantaged areas of LA - including South
Central and East LA. The substantive aspects of the plan (see attachment A) include a
focus on:
Drug Prevention and Education: $500,000 has been pledged by BEST Foundation, NFL
and Frito-Lay to implement a drug prevention and education program curriculum in LA
schools. The program expects to reach 72,000 children aged 7-15 in the first year.
Immunization: 15,000 children will receive vaccines during the first year as a result of an
effort by the Los Angeles Immunization Coalition.
Mentoring: 3,000 new mentoring relationships will be formed, working with the LA
Unified School District and based on a model developed at a junior high school in South
Central LA. National organizations including One to One Partnership, Big Brothers/Big
Sisters, Cities in Schools, and LA based mentoring organizations, universities, religious
institutions, corporations and civic organizations will cooperate on the project.
It is anticipated that the coalition undertaking the initial three programs will evolve into
an entity that will develop a five year strategic plan and budget to optimize their chances
of becoming self-sufficient.
Carter Center, Atlanta Project and America Project
The Atlanta Project (see attachment B), a non-profit initiative of the Carter Center,
was launched in 1991 to mobilize volunteers to fight poverty and related social ills,
including homelessness, teen pregnancy, crime, drug abuse and unemployment. The
Atlanta Project will serve as a model for other cities' similar efforts as part of the
America Project.
The America Project is essentially a roll out of the Atlanta Project, in the same way
that Heal Our Children is an expansion from Heal LA. Apparently the Carter Center
has been inundated with requests from other cities for assistance in replicating the Atlanta
Project. Los Angles and Baltimore are cities being actively considered as sites for
replication efforts. Heal LA and the Enterprise Foundation are key organizations in each
of those cities, respectively, to serve as partners with the America Project.
There has been a tentative decision to create a steering committee and a Working Group
for America Project that will include Dick Schubert, Points of Light Foundation; Dan
Sweat, the Carter Center; Paul Brophy, the Enterprise Foundation; and Dick Schubert,
Chair of the Points of Light Board. The Points of Light Board's role will focus on
mobilizing volunteers.
4 March Meeting with President Carter
Based on a memo sent to VP Gore by President Carter dated today (see attachment C),
the focus of the meeting tomorrow will be on ways that the federal government can assist
in a coordinated way with the effort to alleviate poverty in American cities, Atlanta, Los
Angeles and Baltimore being the test sites. President Carter's memo outlines specific
proposals for federal agencies' cooperation.
Office of National Service
The Office of National Service is not included in President Carter's list of federal
agencies from which assistance could be enlisted. You should consider making the
following information available during the discussion:
ONS efforts are focused largely on youth service; our office would be eager to
participate by providing information and coordinating the efforts of youth service
organizations in targeted cities and serving as a liaison with the America Project and
Heal Our Children.
The President's summer of service program (see attachment D) will focus on
the needs of children, mostly in urban areas -- synergism with America Project and Heal
Our Children. Should the competition for sites result in Baltimore, Los Angeles and
Atlanta being chosen, we would want to coordinate the summer programs with their
efforts.
ONS can provide the coordination with other organizations focused on
community service, especially the Commission on National and Community Service and
ACTION. Points of Light Foundation is already involved.
Attached (see attachment D) is a list of youth service organizations in LA. It is not
exhaustive, but indicates the extent and depth of youth organizations that exist and can be
mobilized in these coordinated efforts. Youth should be seen as resources for re-building
their communities - this is the President's message to youth for this summer and for the
national service program.
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SKETCHES OF INAUGURAL HEAL L.A. PROGRAMS
Drug Prevention & Education - Immunization - Mentoring
Drug Prevention & Education: The BEST Foundation, in response to NFL and Frito-Lay gifts, has
pledged $500,000 through Heal L.A. to implement their comprehensive, and proven, drug prevention
and education curriculum in L.A. schools. Through this effort, BEST and Heal L.A. will reach at least
72,000 children aged 7-15 in the first year. The BEST program will be complemented by the
introduction of the Partnership For A Drug Free America's new youth-oriented inner city program.
The drug prevention aspect of Heal L.A., being undertaken by the BEST Foundation, is driven by
recent research conducted by the Partnership For A Drug Free America which shows that nine out of
ten inner-city children are much more anti-drug than previously thought and that 70 percent in grades
4-6 are afraid they will not know how to say no to drugs when the situation arises.
Immunization: The Los Angeles Immunization Coalition is a community-based public private
partnership of health and human service organizations who promote and provide immunization for
thousands of underserved children in Los Angeles. As part of the Heal L.A. effort, the Coalition's goal
is to immunize 15,000 children in Los Angeles before the end of this year. AltaMed Health Services
Corporation will provide the leadership for this project in conjunction with the Watts Health Foundation,
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, and other public and private health and human care organizations
and agencies relevant to the problem.
The Los Angeles Immunization Coalition is working with the Children's Action Network National
Immunization Campaign, an ongoing national effort to get children immunized against such diseases as
measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough. The Children's Action Network is providing
public service announcements, brochures, posters, and other public awareness materials and technical
assistance to the Coalition to help them meet their goals.
Mentoring: Beginning in Spring 1993, a consortium of non-profit organizations involved in mentoring
services will join with the Los Angeles Unified School District, local colleges and universities, churches
and corporations will join in the Heal L.A. program to design and lead an effort that will provide
trained mentors to 2,500 youngsters within the year. A team mentoring project that is presently being
piloted at Horace Mann Middle School in South Central L.A. will serve as the model for this large scale
effort. In addition, local mentoring agencies will be mobilized to establish 500 additional one to one
mentoring relationships this ycar.
Team mentoring in schools creates a solid foundation by which students can be motivated to succeed
academically and in life, to increase their self esteem, and to give them the skills to cope with the
complex problems that they are confronted with daily. Three-person team mentors (a teacher, college
student and adult from the local community) receive training to become skillful group facilitators,
responsive advisors and positive rule models. The use of three-member mentoring teams encourages a
level of individual accountability, collaboration and continuity.
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Attachment B
THE
CARTER CENTER
THE ATLANTA PROJECT
The Atlanta Project, an initiative of former President Jimmy
Carter and The Carter Center, Inc., seeks to tap the enormous
reservoir of talent and goodwill that exists throughout the Atlanta
area in an effort to reduce poverty, hopelessness, and despair.
The heart of The Atlanta Project is to connect people with
people--rich with poor, young with old, and people of all ethnic,
racial and religious origins in ways that will enrich the lives of
all involved.
The Atlanta Project is an unprecedented community-wide effort
to attack the social problems associated with poverty in urban
areas. It will create friendships and partnerships among state,
local, and federal government agencies, nonprofit service
organizations, the business community, and large numbers of
volunteers drawn especially from universities and religious
institutions. The Atlanta Project will address the problems that
most afflict economically depressed families: school-age pregnancy
and dropout rates, juvenile delinquency, crime and violence,
homelessness, drug abuse, and unemployment.
Each state in the nation faces similar challenges. The United
States by far has more citizens in prison than any other nation.
Homelessness has become a national shame, yet federal housing funds
continue to diminish. Forty-five percent of black children now live
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in poverty, and 25 percent of young black men are in prison or on
probation.
By initially focusing on selected neighborhoods in the metro
area, The Atlanta Project hopes to evolve a model that can be
adapted by other American cities to address these and other
increasingly urgent needs.
THE PROBLEM
Metropolitan Atlanta is one of the most dynamic cities in
America. Its robust business and commercial activity continues to
thrive in spite of the current national recession. A recent
Fortune 500 magazine survey of major corporate executives rated
Atlanta as the single best place in America to do business.
Its race relations, while far from perfect, are the envy of
many other metropolitan cities.
Cooperation among government and private industry, civic and
business leaders, academic institutions, and private citizens has
resulted in Atlanta being chosen to host the 1996 Summer Olympic
Games, an event of monumental proportions. The 1991 World Series
catapulted the Atlanta Braves and the city to the head of the class
in major league baseball, and in 1994, Atlanta will be the site of
the National Football League Super Bowl.
It would appear that Atlanta is on a roll and that all its
citizens are enjoying its good fortune.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. While Atlanta is one of
the most progressive cities in the United States. it is also among
the poorest. Atlanta is really two cities: one for the affluent
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and well-educated, who are able to realize their dreams, and one
for those who lack the education and skills to function in a modern
and complex urban society.
It is time for Atlanta to become one city, a city that devotes
as much time and energy to those in need as it has to bringing home
the Olympics or cheering the Braves. Our inner-city neighborhoods
are in crisis, and we all have something at stake. Crime, drugs
and violence are precipitating the breakdown of families and
communities, as seen in the growing number of men, women and
children who fill our streets, our social service offices, and our
jails and detention centers. The statistics are startling:
*
Atlanta has a higher proportion of families
with incomes below 50 percent of the average national poverty level
than any other city in the U.S., with the single exception of
Newark, N.J.
*
Among all states, Georgia ranks highest in infant
mortality, has the 3rd highest number of babies born underweight
and the 2nd highest number of high school dropouts, and ranks last
in the overall well-being of children.
*
Seventeen percent of all newborn babies at Grady Hospital
in downtown Atlanta are born to mothers who abuse cocaine. Thirty
percent of all babies born there are to women who have had little
or no prenatal care.
*
There are an estimated 12, 000-15, 000 homeless people in the
Atlanta area. Yet nearly 12 percent of the housing units owned by
the Atlanta Housing Authority stand
*
In the past five years in Fulton County Juvenile Court,
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drug cases have increased by 1,700 percent, weapons charges by 73
percent, robbery by 240 percent, and all violent crime has
increased by nearly 300 percent.
THE APPROACH
Despite the best efforts of government, business, and civic
leadership, these and other problems are getting worse. It should
be apparent that more money and traditional programs alone are not
the solution.
The Atlanta Project is predicated on the idea that solutions
lie in the creative talents and energies of individuals and are
only fully realized when people pool their efforts and resources.
This includes less fortunate people as well as those more affluent.
It is not and cannot be a one-way street. Each and every person
involved must be part of a dialogue, must both give and receive.
To start this dialogue, the Project will address the needs of
20 troubled neighborhoods in south Fulton and DeKalb counties and
northwest Clayton county. In each neighborhood, we will hire two
people who will represent the needs of the community to an Atlanta
Project advisory board and secretariat. By involving parents,
students, teachers, law enforcement officers, health officials,
religious leaders, and others, we hope to marshall all the
available resources into one concerted effort to improve people's
lives. Volunteers also will play a key role. We hope to
coordinate a massive number of volunteers, who can help teachers in
city schools, assist in community health centers, work as volunteer
probation officers, or just be i) mentor to a child who needs a
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friend.
The Carter Center will be the home base from which the Project
secretariat and advisory board will coordinate city-wide efforts,
to bring about maximum teamwork and put in place coalitions for
long-term effectiveness. Six full-time professionals on the
secretariat, under the direction of Atlanta business leader Dan
Sweat, bring expertise from the fields of community and economic
development, criminal justice, health, education and housing.
Representatives on the advisory committee come from local,
state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, universities,
and community groups.
THE HOPE
We envision a better Atlanta, one where a middle-class family
and a needy family get to know each other and establish true bonds
of friendship. This can be an Atlanta where religious
congregations in different neighborhoods work together to build a
home or renovate a boarded-up building for a needy family, or help
pay for the college education of a student who might otherwise not
have the opportunity to develop bis or her full potential. This
can be a city where every pregnant mother has access to prenatal
care and every child is immunized against diseases we know how to
prevent. This can be a place where young juvenile offenders have
the help and support they need to turn from a life of crime. With
your help, we want to connect people in our communities in ways
never before attempted to maki this the city we all envision it can
be.
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attachment C
March 2, 1993
To: Participants in meeting with former President Carter et al
From: Roy Neel, Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President
Subject: Specific requests for Administration assistance to
The Atlanta Project/The America Project
President Carter has forwarded Lo the Vice President a list
of specific areas of assistance he and his group will discuss at
Thursday's meeting in the Roosevelt ROOM (1:30-3:30 pm). A copy
of his memorandum is attached to help you prepare for the
meeting.
Also attached is a final list of meeting participants.
Please call me (456-6606) if you have questions.
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Meeting with former President Jimmy Carter, Peter Ueberroth, et al
1:30-3:30, Thursday, March 4
Participants
Vice President Gore
Secretary Ron Brown
Attorney General-designate Janet Reno
Secretary Mike Espy (representative)
Secretaty Donna Shalala
Secretary Henry Cisneros
Secretary Bruce Babbitt
Secretary Jesse Brown
Secretary Bob Reich (representative)
Secretary Richard Riley
Director Leon Panetta
CEA Chair Laura Tyson
NEC Director Bob Rubin
DPC Director Carol Rasco
Director of National Service Eli Segal
President Jimmy Carter
Peter Ueberroth, Chairman, Rebuild LA
Tony Salazar, Co-Chair, Rebuild LA
Charles Hirsch, Heal the World Foundation, LOS Angeles
Paul Brophy, Vice Chair/CEO, Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, MD
James Wilson Rouse, Chr., Enterprise Foundation, Columbia MD
Richard Schubert, President and CEO, Points of Light Foundation
John Hardman, Exec. Dir., Carter Center, Atlanta
Daniel Sweat, Jr., Project. Coor., Atlanta Project, Atlanta
Douglas Dean, Advisory Comm., The Atlanta Project, Atlanta
Kathleen Johnson, Sr. Advisor for Prog. Dev., The Atlanta Project
Congressman John Lewis
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Staff: Roy Neel, Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President
Marla Romash, Communications Director (OVP)
Elaine Kamarck, policy advisor (OVP)
Charlotte Hayes, policy advisor (OVP)
White House Communications (representative)
White House Public Outreach (representative)
White House Political Liason (representative)
White House Intergovernmental Relations (representative)
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JIMMY CARTER
March 2, 1993
To Vice President Al Gore
We are looking forward to our meeting with you and some of
the cabinet members Thursday afternoon. At your request, we have
hurriedly accumulated some specific proposals which we hope will
be considered. None of us wishes to add any funding or personnel
to federal programs already in existence. Our purpose is to
share with you some of the innovative ideas that are being pur-
sued in a small number of representative private organizations to
arrest the rapid decline in quality of life in America's inner
cities. All of us are dedicated to preserving our own nongovern-
mental and independent status, but hoping that government agen-
cies can join us as an integral team member in alleviating the
ravages of poverty.
In some cases, the cities of Atlanta, Los Angeles, or
Baltimore might be used as communities for testing new ideas of
the Clinton administration on a relatively limited scale. This
is a generic opportunity that might apply to a number of the
items below.
Federal regional agencies - There are 110 in Atlanta alone,
responsible for implementing federal programs in the Southeast!
I have met with all of then, and although there is a federal
council, ostensibly designed to coordinate efforts, a great deal
remains to be done. Joe Juska, executive director of this
council is doing the best he can with a task force authorized by
President Bush. However, we need a new presidential directive
and some stronger follow-up from Washington to insure that core
agencies are knit into a functioning team. This would include
most of those with whom I presume we will be meeting. Rebuild
Los Angeles can use a similar group to help citizens and communi-
ties victimized by the 1992 riots.
OMB - We need maximum flexibility in simplifying and
standardizing such forms as those that qualify families for food
stamps, head start, public housing, WIC, and Medicaid. Also, we
need some input from the federal government in devising a way to
track children from birth through immunization days, school, etc.
Now it is not possible to do so. We have already begun this
effort. What we develop would have nationwide application.
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Health - We have 54,000 children in The Atlanta Project who
are less than six years old. Between now and May 1 we will make
a door-to-door canvas with volunteers and insure that all these
children are adequately immunized. In addition to administrative
and programmatic support, we need some assistance in acquiring
hepatitis vaccine for children between one and five years of age.
while visiting homes, we also expect to identify pregnant women
who are not receiving prenatal care and other family members who
might need assistance.
Labor, education - We need special flexibility in placing
young people in training and summer job programs. We have a spe-
cial initiative in melding all the universities in the area with
the inner city neighborhoods. We would be prepared to concen-
trate on such opportunities as a dramatic increase in Headstart
coverage and President Clinton's national service program for
college students.
Within our public schools, whose enrollment is predominantly
African-American, we are organizing groups of students known as
"FutureForce." These students are leading the efforts to control
violence, to encourage mentoring for potential dropouts, to pro-
mote better health care, and to reduce drug use. We already have
a close tie with the U.S. Army, but could benefit from more ex-
tensive relationships with federal personnel and agencies in ap-
prenticeships, leadership training, recreational activities and
building respect for law enforcement officials.
Small Business - We have received from the previous
administration a $33 million grant under the Major Renovation of
Obsolete Projects program for one of Atlanta's housing projects.
We need more flexibility in using these funds and a special HUD
task force to work with us so that this grant can be leveraged to
encompass a much more effective partnership from the private sec-
tor, volunteers, and local governments. This same task force
could help our volunteer groups like Habitat for Humanity obtain
building supplies for renovation of homes owned by low income
families.
Justice - In addition to some of the ideas above, it would
be helpful to build a more substantive cooperation on the "Wood
and Seed" concept of the previous administration. The high crime
and drug culture is heavily concentrated in public housing devel
opments, and only a strong team effort among the multiple law
enforcement agencies and HUD is going to be effective.
Federal offices - Federal law requires that offices be uti-
lized in central city areas and not moved to the affluent sub-
urbs. This has not been enforced since I left the White House.
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In general, all of us will be eager to offer our help to
federal program administrators in making your own programs more
effective. Let me reiterate that we are not asking for anything
that would increase the federal budget or cause the employment of
additional personnel. A partnership, however, built on our
diverse private initiatives, can be mutually beneficial in
serving our low income families.
Best wishes,
Jimey
The Honorable Al Gore
The Vice President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
attachment D
MEMORANDUM
To: Eli Segal
Fr: Susan Stroud
Re: LA Community Service Projects
March 3, 1993
LOS ANGELES CONSERVAION CORPS
The LACC is one of the best corps if not the best in the country
and run by one of the best if not the best program directors,
Martha Dipenbrock. The corps goals are to 1) expand in order to
provide more opportunity for youth; 2) implement a more
comprehensive program of education and work-experience training;
3) strengthen and expand youth leadership and 4) increase the
presence and effectiveness of the LACC in working with local
community interests and organizations.
Grant total from CNCS is one million dollars.
Three new Commission funded major projects have been developed:
Urban Greening Project In november a project director and
corps members were set into place to supplement existing urban
tree planning operations. The members of the core (coordinating
with neighborhood groups) spend alternating weeks on-site and in
class. Tests of this type of approach have shown "marked
improvement in the educational gains of members."
Human Service Delivery Project Corp members, staff and
volunteers from Constitutional Rights Foundation's neighborhood
action teams address the issues of civil disturbances and work to
foster better multi-cultural understanding. Currently they are
working on the Neighbor to Neighbor which educates the community
about 2 trials related to the spring '92 disturbances.
Youth Build Project The LACC and Youthbuild have committed
to work together on construction training and field work for 15
to 18 corps members. This project is scheduled to begin in April
of 1993. The LACC has secured a satellite spot in East Los
Angeles where the project will be implemented.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (CRF)
CRF's Youth Tack Force LA, consists of 30 teams made up of high
school and continuing school or community agency youth, to heal
and rebuild communities. The goal is to provide training and
assistance in planning and implementing projects in their schools
and neighborhoods. Projects are focused on the following issues:
youth development and urban education; police and community
relations; community and economic development; and race
relations.
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT /
TEEN OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
The teen outreach partnership is focused on youth who attend Los
Angeles Unified School Districts Senior High School because of
academic, behavioral and/or attendance difficulties. The
partnership plans to provide 200 youth in eleven schools with
classroom instruction and community service opportunities which
promote self-esteem, life management skills, educational
achievement, civic responsibility and prosocial behavior.
LACC, CRA AND LAUSD
The above three mentioned service groups have combined efforts
which will include LACC's Clean and Green middle school program
to integrate service-learning activities throughout the core
content areas. School staff, students and community members will
work together in assessing community needs, identifying resources
and planning worthwhile service projects that will allow
approximately 700 students to apply their classroom learning in a
positive and productive way.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
UCLA has 43 student initiated projects that involve as many as
5,000 students. These projects range from legal aid to tutorial
programs in such areas as Watts and South Central LA. The
Community Service Commission at UCLA is part of the student
government and lead by a campus elected officer.
Some of the programs at UCLA have been around for 25 years, they
view their participation not as rebuilding LA, but as continuing
a long standing goal of community development.
March 2, 1993
To: Senior White House Staff
From: Roy Neel
Subject: Meeting with the Vice President, and former President
Jimmy Carter, Peter Ueberroth, et al to discuss
The Atlanta Project, The America Project,
and Rebuild LA.
1:30-3:30 pm, Thursday, Mar. 4
FYI, the attached description of The Atlanta Project was
omitted from the memo I distributed at the staff meeting this
morning.
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Office of the Vice President
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-2326
TO:
Susan Strond
FROM:
Roy Neel
DATE:
3-3-93
number of pages: 6
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POINTS OF LIGHT
FOUNDATION
PERSONAL AND GONFIDENTIAL
February 24, 1993
Mr. C. Richard Allen
DETERMINED TO BE AN
Deputy Assistant to the President
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
Deputy Director, the Office of National Service
Washington, DC
Dear Rick:
INITIALS) 2013-0661-F JGP, DATE: 12/12/19
Thanks for your time and insightfulness this morning. Regarding your
question concerning the Carter meeting, you will find attached a schedule for a
preparatory meeting and the actual subject meeting. Please don't get me in trouble
with respect to where you got this!
The background is as follows: As you probably know, President Carter has
created a vision for the revitalization of Atlanta in connection with preparing for the
Olympics, called The Atlanta Project. Some months ago, our Board met with the
Director of the Atlanta Project, Dan Sweat, and we began a dialogue exploring ways
in which the Foundation could be of assistance in sharing the learnings from The
Atlanta Project to other cities around the country. Since those early discussions,
President Carter has decided that there ought to be an America Project which in
effect would approach the major urban centers with something like the conceptual
outline followed in Atlanta. To do this, he is putting together a Steering Committee
and a Working Group. Paul Brophy of the Enterprise Foundation, Dan Sweat and I
are tentatively the Working Group and Dick Munro will tentatively be serving on a
small to medium size Steering Committee. My guess is, without knowing for sure,
that the meeting with the Vice President, et al, is designed to talk about both the
Atlanta Project and rolling out into the America Project.
The Points of Light Foundation contribution will focus on mobilizing volunteers
to help effectuate the vision as well as perhaps incorporating and grafting the
learnings into the dissemination process via the ServLink function of The Points of
Light Foundation. This is still pretty amorphous, but we are obviously honored as
well as delighted to be invited to participate in the overall effort as well as this
particular meeting.
Sincerely,
Dull
Richard F. Schubert
President and
Chief Executive Officer
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Robert Goodwin
736 JACKSON PLACE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503 TEL 202-408-5162 FAX 202.408.5169 TDD 202 289 3807
MEMORANDUM
3 March 1993
To:
Eli Segal
From:
Susan Stroud
Re:
4 March meeting with VP Gore, Jimmy Carter, et al
Background
Heal LA is a joint effort of the Heal the World Foundation (Michael Jackson's
philanthropy), the International Youth Foundation, and the Carter Center to provide
support for children living in disadvantaged areas of Los Angeles. LA is the first city in
what will be the larger national program, Heal Our Children, which is co-chaired by
Michael Jackson and Jimmy Carter.
Heal LA will be announced in Los Angeles on April 29, one year after the civil
disturbances. Significant resources have been committed by Heal the World Foundation,
the International Youth Foundation, the BEST Foundation, the National Football League
and Frito-Lay. Additional resources will be raised from other public and private
resources.
The plan of action
The plan of action will focus on children in disadvantaged areas of LA - including South
Central and East LA. The substantive aspects of the plan (see attachment A) include a
focus on:
Drug Prevention and Education: $500,000 has been pledged by BEST Foundation, NFL
and Frito-Lay to implement a drug prevention and education program curriculum in LA
schools. The program expects to reach 72,000 children aged 7-15 in the first year.
Immunization: 15,000 children will receive vaccines during the first year as a result of an
effort by the Los Angeles Immunization Coalition.
Mentoring: 3,000 new mentoring relationships will be formed, working with the LA
Unified School District and based on a model developed at a junior high school in South
Central LA. National organizations including One to One Partnership, Big Brothers/Big
Sisters, Cities in Schools, and LA based mentoring organizations, universities, religious
institutions, corporations and civic organizations will cooperate on the project.
It is anticipated that the coalition undertaking the initial three programs will evolve into
an entity that will develop a five year strategic plan and budget to optimize their chances
of becoming self-sufficient.
Carter Center, Atlanta Project and America Project
The Atlanta Project (see attachment B), a non-profit initiative of the Carter Center.
was launched in 1991 to mobilize volunteers to fight poverty and related social ills,
including homelessness, teen pregnancy, crime, drug abuse and unemployment. The
Atlanta Project will serve as a model for other cities' similar efforts as part of the
America Project.
The America Project is essentially a roll out of the Atlanta Project, in the same way
that Heal Our Children is an expansion from Heal LA. Apparently the Carter Center
has been inundated with requests from other cities for assistance in replicating the Atlanta
Project. Los Angles and Baltimore are cities being actively considered as sites for
replication efforts. Heal LA and the Enterprise Foundation are key organizations in each
of those cities, respectively, to serve as partners with the America Project.
There has been a tentative decision to create a steering committee and a Working Group
for America Project that will include Dick Schubert, Points of Light Foundation: Dan
Sweat, the Carter Center; Paul Brophy, the Enterprise Foundation: and Dick Schubert,
Chair of the Points of Light Board. The Points of Light Board's role will focus on
mobilizing volunteers.
4 March Meeting with President Carter
Based on a memo sent to VP Gore by President Carter dated today (see attachment C),
the focus of the meeting tomorrow will be on ways that the federal government can assist
in a coordinated way with the effort to alleviate poverty in American cities, Atlanta, Los
Angeles and Baltimore being the test sites. President Carter's memo outlines specific
proposals for federal agencies' cooperation.
Office of National Service
The Office of National Service is not included in President Carter's list of federal
agencies from which assistance could be enlisted. You should consider making the
following information available during the discussion:
ONS efforts are focused largely on youth service; our office would be eager to
participate by providing information and coordinating the efforts of youth service
organizations in targeted cities and serving as a liaison with the America Project and
Heal Our Children.
The President's summer of service program (see attachment D) will focus on
the needs of children, mostly in urban areas -- synergism with America Project and Heal
Our Children. Should the competition for sites result in Baltimore, Los Angeles and
Atlanta being chosen, we would want to coordinate the summer programs with their
efforts.
ONS can provide the coordination with other organizations focused on
community service, especially the Commission on National and Community Service and
ACTION. Points of Light Foundation is already involved.
Attached (see attachment D) is a list of youth service organizations in LA. It is not
exhaustive, but indicates the extent and depth of youth organizations that exist and can be
mobilized in these coordinated efforts. Youth should be seen as resources for re-building
their communities - this is the President's message to youth for this summer and for the
national service program.
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616 969 98,5
INT YOUTH FOUND.
009,015
attachment A
SKETCHES OF INAUGURAL HEAL L.A. PROGRAMS
Drug Prevention & Education — Immunization - Mentoring
Drug Prevention & Education: The BEST Foundation, in response to NFL and Frito-Lay gifts, has
pledged $500,000 through Heal L.A. to implement their comprehensive, and proven, drug prevention
and education curriculum in L.A. schools. Through this effort, BEST and Heal L.A. will reach at least
72,000 children aged 7-15 in the first year. The BEST program will be complemented by the
introduction of the Parmership For A Drug Free America's new youth-oriented inner city program.
The drug prevention aspect of Heal L.A., being undertaken by the BEST Foundation, is driven by
recent research conducted by the Partnership For A Drug Free America which shows that nine out of
ten inner-city children are much more anti-drug than previously thought and that 70 percent in grades
4-6 are afraid they will not know how to say no to drugs when the situation arises.
Immunization: The Los Angeles Immunization Coalition is a community-based public private
partnership of health and human service organizations who promote and provide immunization for
thousands of underserved children in Los Angeles. As part of the Heal L.A. effort, the Coalition's goal
is to immunize 15,000 children in Los Angeles before the end of this year. AltaMed Health Services
Corporation will provide the leadership for this project in conjunction with the Watts Health Foundation,
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, and other public and private health and human care organizations
and agencies relevant to the problem.
The Los Angeles Immunization Coalition is working with the Children's Action Network National
Immunization Campaign, an ongoing national effort to get children immunized against such diseases as
measles, mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough. The Children's Action Network is providing
public service amouncements, brochures, posters, and other public awareness materials and technical
assistance to the Coalition to help them meet their goals.
Mentoring: Beginning in Spring 1993, a consortium of non-profit organizations involved in mentoring
services will join with the Los Angeles Unified School District, local colleges and universities, churches
and corporations will join in the Heal L.A. program to design and lead an effort that will provide
trained mentors to 2,500 youngsters within the year. A team mentoring project that is presently being
piloted at Horace Mann Middle School in South Central L.A. will serve as the model for this large scale
effort. In addition, local mentoring agencies will be mobilized to establish 500 additional one to one
mentoring relationships this year.
Team mentoring in schools creates a solid foundation by which students can be motivated to succeed
academically and in life, to increase their self esteem, and to give them the skills to cope with the
complex problems that they are confronted with daily. Three-person team mentors (a teacher, college
student and adult from the local community) receive training to become skillful group facilitators,
responsive advisors and positive rule models. The use of three-member mentoring learns encourages a
level of individual accountability, collaboration and continuity.
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Attachment B
THE
CARTER CENTER
THE ATLANTA PROJECT
The Atlanta Project, an initiative of former President Jimmy
Carter and The Carter Center, Inc., seeks to tap the enormous
reservoir of talent and goodwill that exists throughout the Atlanta
area in an effort to reduce poverty, hopelessness, and despair.
The heart of The Atlanta Project is to connect people with
people--rich with poor, young with old, and people of all ethnic,
racial and religious origins in ways that will enrich the lives of
all involved.
The Atlanta Project is an unprecedented community-wide effort
to attack the social problems associated with poverty in urban
areas. It will create friendships and partnerships among state,
local, and federal government agencies, nonprofit service
organizations, the business community, and large numbers of
volunteers drawn especially from universities and religious
institutions. The Atlanta Project will address the problems that
most afflict economically depressed families: school-age pregnancy
and dropout rates, juvenile delinquency, crime and violence,
homelessness, drug abuse, and unemployment.
Each state in the nation faces similar challenges. The United
States by far has 7020 citizens in prosen than any other nation.
Homelessness has
federal housing funds
continue = diminist
black children now live
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in poverty, and 25 percent of young black men are in prison or on
probation.
By initially focusing on selected neighborhoods in the metro
area, The Atlanta Project hopes to evolve a model that can be
adapted by other American cities to address these and other
increasingly urgent needs.
THE PROBLEM
Metropolitan Atlanta is one of the most dynamic cities in
America. Its robust business and commercial activity continues to
thrive in spite of the current national recession. A recent
Fortune 500 magazine survey of major corporate executives rated
Atlanta as the single best place in America to do business.
Its race relations, while far from perfect, are the envy of
many other metropolitan cities.
Cooperation among government and private industry, civic and
business leaders, academic institutions, and private citizens has
resulted in Atlanta being chosen to host the 1996 Summer Olympic
Games, an event of monumental proportions. The 1991 World Series
catapulted the Atlanta Braves and the city to the head ef the class
in major league baseball, and in 1994, Atlanta will be the site of
the National Football League Super Bowl.
It would appear that Atlanta is on at roll and that all its
citizens are enjoying its good fortune.
Unfortunately, this is
While Atlanta is
the most progressive
:-
is
the poorest. Atlanta
for the
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and well-educated, who are able to realize their dreams, and one
for those who lack the education and skills to function in a modern
and complex urban society.
It is time for Atlanta to become one city, a city that devotes
as much time and energy to those in need as it has to bringing home
the Olympics or cheering the Braves. Our inner-city neighborhoods
are in crisis, and we all have something at stake. Crime, drugs
and violence are precipitating the breakdown of families and
communities, as seen in the growing number of men, women and
children who fill our streets, our social service offices, and our
jails and detention centers. The statistics are startling:
*
Atlanta has a higher proportion of families
with incomes below 50 percent of the average national poverty level
than any other city in the U.S., with the single exception of
Newark, N.J.
*
Among all states, Georgia ranks highest in infant
mortality, has the 3rd highest number of babies born underweight
and the 2nd highest number of high school dropouts, and ranks last
in the overall well-being of children.
*
Seventeen percent of all newborn babies at Grady Hospital
in downtown Atlanta are born to mothers who abuse cocaine. Thirty
percent of all babies born there are to women who have had little
or no prenatal care.
*
There are an estimated 12.000-15 000 homeless people in the
Atlanta area. Yet nearly 12 housing units owned FY
the Atlanta Housen,
in
the
past
County Juvenile Court.
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drug cases have increased by 1,700 percent, weapons charges by 73
percent, robbery by 240 percent, and all violent crime has
increased by nearly 300 percent.
THE APPROACH
Despite the best efforts of government, business, and civic
leadership, these and other problems are getting worse. It should
be apparent that more money and traditional programs alone are not
the solution.
The Atlanta Project is predicated on the idea that solutions
lie in the creative talents and energies of individuals and are
only fully realized when people pool their efforts and resources.
This includes less fortunate people as well as those more affluent.
It is not and cannot be a one-way street. Each and every person
involved must be part of a dialogue, must both give and receive.
To start this dialogue, the Project will address the needs of
20 troubled neighborhoods in south Fulton and DeKalb counties and
northwest Clayton county. In each neighborhood, we will hire two
people who will represent the needs of the community to an Atlanta
Project advisory board and secretariat. By involving parents,
students, teachers, law enforcement officers, health officials,
religious leaders, and others, we hope to marshall all the
available resources into one concerted effort to improve people's
lives. Volunteers also will play a key role. We hope to
coordinate a massive number of volunteers, who can help teachers in
city schools assist
in
conters,
work
as
untern
probation officers, 51
to a child who noods à
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friend.
The Carter Center will be the home base from which the Project
secretariat and advisory board will coordinate city-wide efforts,
to bring about maximum teamwork and put in place coalitions for
long-term effectiveness. Six full-time professionals on the
secretariat, under the direction of Atlanta business leader Dan
Sweat, bring expertise from the fields of community and economic
development, criminal justice, health, education and housing.
Representatives on the advisory committee come from local,
state and federal agencies, non profit organizations, universities,
and community groups.
THE HOPE
We envision a better Atlanta, one where a middle-class family
and a needy family get to know each other and establish true bonds
of friendship. This can be an Atlonta where religious
congregations in different neighborhoods work together to build a
home or renovate a boarded-up building for a needy family, or help
pay for the college education of a student who might otherwise not
have the opportunity to develop his or her full potential. This
can be a city where every prognant mother has access to prenatal
care and every child is immunized against diseases we know how to
prevent. This can be a place where young juvenile offenders have
the help and support they need is burn Crom a life of crime. with
your help, we want to CORRACT people in our communities in ways
never before attemp"
F
we
all
envision
:-
be.
03/03/93 14:59
CHIEF OF STAFF
2002
attachment C
March 2, 1993
To: Participants in meeting with former President Carter et al
From: Roy Neel, Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President
Subject: Specific requests for Administration assistance to
The Atlanta Project/The America Project
President Carter has forwarded LC the Vice President a list
of specific areas of assistance he and his group will discuss at
Thursday's meeting in the Roosevelt ROOM (1:30-3:30 pm). A copy
of his memorandum is attached to help you prepare for the
meeting.
Also attached is a final list of meeting participants.
Please call me (456-6606) if you have questions.
03/03/93 14:59
CHIEF OF STAFF
2003
Meeting with former President Jimmy Carter, Peter Ueberroth, et al
1:30-3:30, Thursday, March 4
Participants
Vice President Gore
Secretary Ron Brown
Attorney General-designate Janet Reno
Secretary Mike Espy (representative)
Secretaty Donna Shalala
Secretary Henry Cisheros
Secretary Bruce Babbitt
Secretary Jesse Brown
Secretary Bob Reich (representative)
Secretary Richard Riley
Director Leon Panetta
CEA Chair Laura Tyson
NEC Director Bob Rubin
DPC Director Carol Rasco
Director of National Service Eli Segal
President Jimmy Carter
Peter Ueberroth, Chairman, Rebuild LA
Tony Salazar, Co-Chair, Rebuild LA
Charles Hirsch, Heal the World Foundation, Los Angeles
Paul Brophy, Vice Chair/CEO, Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, MD
James Wilson Rouse, Chr., Enterprise Foundation, Columbia ML
Richard Schubert, President and CEO, Points of Light Foundation
John Hardman, Exec. Dir., Carter Center, Atlanta
Daniel Sweat, Jr., Project. Coor., Atlanta Project, Atlanta
Douglas Dean, Advisory Comm., The Atlanta Project, Atlanta
Kathleen Johnson, Sr. Advisor for Prog. Dev., The Atlanta Project
Congressman John Lewis
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Staff: Roy Neel, Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President
Marla Romash, Communications Director (OVP)
Elaine Kamarck, policy advisor (OVP)
Charlotte Hayes, policy advisor (OVP)
White House Communications (representative)
White House Public Outreach (representative)
White House Political Liason (representative)
White House Intergovernmental Relations (representative)
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JIMMY ARTER
March 2, 1993
To Vice President Al Gore
We are looking forward to our meeting with you and some of
the cabinet members Thursday afternoon. At your request, we have
hurriedly accumulated some specific proposals which we hope will
be considered. None of us wishes to add any funding or personnel
to federal programs already in existence. Our purpose is to
share with you some of the innovative ideas that are being pur-
sued in a small number of representative private organizations to
arrest the rapid decline in quality of life in America's inner
cities. All of us are dedicated to preserving our own nongovern-
mental and independent status, but hoping that government agen-
cies can join us as an integral team member in alleviating the
ravages of poverty.
In some cases, the cities of Atlanta, Los Angeles, or
Baltimore might be used as communities for testing new ideas of
the Clinton administration on a relatively limited scale. This
is a generic opportunity that might apply to a number of the
items below.
Federal regional agencies - There are 110 in Atlanta alone,
responsible for implementing federal programs in the Southeast
I have met with all of then, and although there is a federal
council, ostensibly designed to coordinate efforts, a great deal
remains to be done. Joe Juska, executive director of this
council is doing the best he can with a task force authorized by
President Bush. However, we need a new presidential directive
and some stronger follow-up from Washington to insure that core
agencies are knit into a functioning team. This would include
most of those with whom I presume we will be meeting. Rebuild
Los Angeles can use a similar group to help citizens and communi-
ties victimized by the 1992 riots.
OMB - We need maximum flexibility in simplifying and
standardizing such forms as those that qualify families for food
stamps, head start, public housing, WIC, and Medicaid. Also, we
need some input from the federal government in devising a way to
track children from birth through immunization days, school, etc.
Now it is not possible to do so. We have already begun this
effort. What we develop would have nationwide application.
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Health - We have 54,000 children in The Atlanta Project who
are less than six years old. Between now and May 1 we will make
a door-to-door canvas with volunteers and insure that all these
children are adequately immunized. In addition to administrative
and programmatic support, we need some assistance in acquiring
hepatitis vaccine for children between one and five years of age.
While visiting homes, we also expect to identify pregnant women
who are not receiving prenatal care and other family members who
might need assistance.
Labor, education - We need special flexibility in placing
young people in training and summer job programs. We have a spe-
cial initiative in melding all the universities in the area with
the inner city neighborhoods. We would be prepared to concen-
trate on such opportunities as a dramatic increase in Headstart
coverage and President Clinton's national service program for
college students.
Within our public schools, whose enrollment is predominantly
African-American, we are organizing groups of students known as
"FutureForce." These students are leading the efforts to control
violence, to encourage mentoring for potential dropouts, to pro-
mote better health care, and to reduce drug use. We already have
a close tie with the U.S. Army, but could benefit from more ex-
tensive relationships with federal personnel and agencies in ap-
prenticeships, leadership training, recreational activities and
building respect for law enforcement officials.
Small Business : - We have received from the previous
administration a $33 million grant under the Major Renovation of
Obsolete Projects program for one of Atlanta's housing projects.
We need more flexibility in using these funds and a special HUD
task force to work with us so that this grant can be leveraged to
encompass a much more effective partnership from the private sec-
tor, volunteers, and local governments. This same task force
could help our volunteer groups like Habitat for Humanity obtain
building supplies for renovation of homes owned by low income
families.
Justice - In addition to some of the ideas above, it would
be helpful to build a more substantive cooperation on the "Weed
and Seed" concept of the previous administration. The high crime
and drug culture is heavily concentrated In public housing devel
opments, and only a strong team effort among the multiple law
enforcement agencies and HUD is going to be effective.
Federal offices - Federal law requires that offices be uti-
lized in central city areas and not moved to the affluent sub-
urbs. This has not been enforced since I left the White House.
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In general, all of us will be eager to offer our help to
federal program administrators in making your own programs more
effective. Let me reiterate that we are not asking for anything
that would increase the federal budget or cause the employment of
additional personnel. A partnership, however, built on our
diverse private initiatives, can be mutually beneficial in
serving our low income families.
Best wishes,
Jimey
The Honorable Al Gore
The Vice President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
attachment D
MEMORANDUM
To: Eli Segal
Fr: Susan Stroud
Re: LA Community Service Projects
March 3, 1993
LOS ANGELES CONSERVAION CORPS
The LACC is one of the best corps if not the best in the country
and run by one of the best if not the best program directors,
Martha Dipenbrock. The corps goals are to 1) expand in order to
provide more opportunity for youth; 2) implement a more
comprehensive program of education and work-experience training;
3) strengthen and expand youth leadership and 4) increase the
presence and effectiveness of the LACC in working with local
community interests and organizations.
Grant total from CNCS is one million dollars.
Three new Commission funded major projects have been developed:
Urban Greening Project In november a project director and
corps members were set into place to supplement existing urban
tree planning operations. The members of the core (coordinating
with neighborhood groups) spend alternating weeks on-site and in
class. Tests of this type of approach have shown "marked
improvement in the educational gains of members."
Human Service Delivery Project Corp members, staff and
volunteers from Constitutional Rights Foundation's neighborhood
action teams address the issues of civil disturbances and work to
foster better multi-cultural understanding. Currently they are
working on the Neighbor to Neighbor which educates the community
about 2 trials related to the spring '92 disturbances.
Youth Build Project The LACC and Youthbuild have committed
to work together on construction training and field work for 15
to 18 corps members. This project is scheduled to begin in April
of 1993. The LACC has secured a satellite spot in East Los
Angeles where the project will be implemented.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (CRF)
CRF's Youth Tack Force LA, consists of 30 teams made up of high
school and continuing school or community agency youth, to heal
and rebuild communities. The goal is to provide training and
assistance in planning and implementing projects in their schools
and neighborhoods. Projects are focused on the following issues:
youth development and urban education; police and community
relations; community and economic development; and race
relations.
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT /
TEEN OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
The teen outreach partnership is focused on youth who attend Los
Angeles Unified School Districts Senior High School because of
academic, behavioral and/or attendance difficulties. The
partnership plans to provide 200 youth in eleven schools with
classroom instruction and community service opportunities which
promote self-esteem, life management skills, educational
achievement, civic responsibility and prosocial behavior.
LACC, CRA AND LAUSD
The above three mentioned service groups have combined efforts
which will include LACC's Clean and Green middle school program
to integrate service-learning activities throughout the core
content areas. School staff, students and community members will
work together in assessing community needs, identifying resources
and planning worthwhile service projects that will allow
approximately 700 students to apply their classroom learning in a
positive and productive way.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
UCLA has 43 student initiated projects that involve as many as
5,000 students. These projects range from legal aid to tutorial
programs in such areas as Watts and South Central LA. The
Community Service Commission at UCLA is part of the student
government and lead by a campus elected officer.
Some of the programs at UCLA have been around for 25 years, they
view their participation not as rebuilding LA, but as continuing
a long standing goal of community development.
03/03/93 14:59
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2003
Meeting with former President Jimmy Carter, Peter Ueberroth, et al
1:30-3:30, Thursday, March 4
Participants
Vice President Gore
Secretary Ron Brown
Attorney General-designate Janet Reno
Secretary Mike Espy (representative)
Secretaty Donna Shalala
Secretary Henry Cisneros
Secretary Bruce Babbitt
Secretary Jesse Brown
Secretary Bob Reich (representative)
Secretary Richard Riley
Director Leon Panetta
CEA Chair Laura Tyson
NEC Director Bob Rubin
DPC Director Carol Rasco
Director of National Service Eli Segal
President Jimmy Carter
Peter Ueberroth, Chairman, Rebuild LA
Tony Salazar, Co-Chair, Rebuild LA
Charles Hirsch, Heal the World Foundation, LOS Angeles
Paul Brophy, Vice Chair/CEO, Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, MD
James Wilson Rouse, Chr., Enterprise Foundation, Columbia MD
Richard Schubert, President and CEO, Points of Light Foundation
John Hardman, Exec. Dir., Carter Center, Atlanta
Daniel Sweat, Jr., Project. Coor., Atlanta Project, Atlanta
Douglas Dean, Advisory Comm., The Atlanta Project, Atlanta
Kathleen Johnson, Sr. Advisor for Prog. Dev., The Atlanta Project
Congressman John Lewis
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Staff: Roy Neel, Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President
Marla Romash, Communications Director (OVP)
Elaine Kamarck, policy advisor (OVP)
Charlotte Hayes, policy advisor (OVP)
White House Communications (representative)
White House Public Outreach (representative)
White House Political Liason (representative)
White House Intergovernmental Relations (representative)
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P.02
JIMMY ARTER
March 2, 1993
To Vice President Al Gore
We are looking forward to our meeting with you and some of
the cabinet members Thursday afternoon. At your request, we have
hurriedly accumulated some specific proposals which we hope will
be considered. None of us wishes to add any funding or personnel
to federal programs already in existence. Our purpose is to
share with you some of the innovative ideas that are being pur-
sued in a small number of representative private organizations to
arrest the rapid decline in quality of life in America's inner
cities. All of us are dedicated to preserving our own nongovern-
mental and independent status, but hoping that government agen-
cies can join us as an integral team member in alleviating the
ravages of poverty.
In some cases, the cities of Atlanta, Los Angeles, or
Baltimore might be used as communities for testing new ideas of
the Clinton administration on a relatively limited scale. This
is a generic opportunity that might apply to a number of the
items below.
Federal regional agencies - There are 110 in Atlanta alone,
responsible for implementing federal programs in the 3outheast!
I have met with all of then, and although there is a federal
council, ostensibly designed to coordinate efforts, a great deal
remains to be done. Joe Juska, executive director of this
council is doing the best he can with a task force authorized by
President Bush. However, we need a new presidential directive
and some stronger follow-up from Washington to insure that core
agencies are knit into a functioning team. This would include
most of those with whom I presume we will be meeting. Rebuild
Los Angeles can use a similar group to help citizens and communi-
ties victimized by the 1992 riots.
OMB - We need maximum flexibility in simplifying and
standardizing such forms as those that qualify families for food
stamps, head start, public housing, WIC, and Medicaid. Also, we
need some input from the federal government in devising a way to
track children from birth through immunization days, school, etc.
Now it is not possible to do so. we have already begun this
effort. What we develop would have natiorwide application.
03/03/93 15:00
CHIEF OF STAFF
003
MAR- 2-93 TUE 18:45 CARTER PRESIDENTIAL CTR.
P.03
Page 2
Health - We have 54,000 children in The Atlanta Project who
are less than six years old. Between now and May 1 we will make
a door-to-door canvas with volunteers and insure that all these
children are adequately immunized. In addition to administrative
and programmatic support, we need some assistance in acquiring
hepatitis vaccine for children between one and rive years of age.
while visiting homes, we also expect to identify pregnant women
who are not receiving prenatal care and other family members who
might need assistance.
Labor, education - We need special flexibility in placing
young people in training and summer job programs. We have a spe-
cial initiative in melding all the universities in the area with
the inner city neighborhoods. We would be prepared to concen-
trate on such opportunities as a dramatic increase in Headstart
coverage and President Clinton's national service program for
college students.
Within our public schools, whose enrollment is predominantly
African-American, we are organizing groups of students known as
"FutureForce." These students are leading the efforts to control
violence, to encourage mentoring for potential dropouts, to pro-
mote better health care, and to reduce drug use. We already have
a close tie with the U.S. Army, but could benefit from more ex-
tensive relationships with federal personnel and agencies in ap-
prenticeships, leadership training, recreational activities and
building respect for law enforcement officials.
Small Business - We have received from the previous
administration a $33 million grant under the Major Renovation of
Obsolete Projects program for one of Atlanta's housing projects.
We need more flexibility in using these funds and a special HUD
task force to work with us so thet this grant can be leveraged to
encompass a much more effective partnership from the private sec-
tor, volunteers, and local governments. This same task force
could help our volunteer groups like Habitat for Humanity obtain
building supplies for renovation of homes owned by low income
families.
Justice - In addition to some of the ideas above, it would
be helpful to build a more substantive cooperation on the "Weed
and Seed" concept of the previous administration. The high crime
and drug culture is heavily concentrated In public housing devel
opments, and only a strong team effort among the multiple law
enforcement agencies and HUD is going to be effective.
Federal offices - Federal law requires that offices be uti-
lized in central city areas and not moved to the affluent sub-
urbs. This has not been enforced since I left the White House.
03/03/93 13:01
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1
006
MAR- 2-93 TUE 18:45 CARTER PRESIDENTIAL CTR.
P.04 -
Page 3
In general, all of us will be eager to offer our help to
federal program administrators in making your own programs more
effective. Let me reiterate that we are not asking for anything
that would increase the federal budget or cause the employment of
additional personnel. A partnership, however, built on our
diverse private initiatives, can be mutually beneficial in
serving our low income families.
Best wishes,
Jimmy
The Honorable Al Gore
The Vice President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
attachment D
MEMORANDUM
To: Eli Segal
Fr: Susan Stroud
Re: LA Community Service Projects
March 3, 1993
LOS ANGELES CONSERVAION CORPS
The LACC is one of the best corps if not the best in the country
and run by one of the best if not the best program directors,
Martha Dipenbrock. The corps goals are to 1) expand in order to
provide more opportunity for youth; 2) implement a more
comprehensive program of education and work-experience training;
3) strengthen and expand youth leadership and 4) increase the
presence and effectiveness of the LACC in working with local
community interests and organizations.
Grant total from CNCS is one million dollars.
Three new Commission funded major projects have been developed:
Urban Greening Project In november a project director and
corps members were set into place to supplement existing urban
tree planning operations. The members of the core (coordinating
with neighborhood groups) spend alternating weeks on-site and in
class. Tests of this type of approach have shown "marked
improvement in the educational gains of members."
Human Service Delivery Project Corp members, staff and
volunteers from Constitutional Rights Foundation's neighborhood
action teams address the issues of civil disturbances and work to
foster better multi-cultural understanding. Currently they are
working on the Neighbor to Neighbor which educates the community
about 2 trials related to the spring '92 disturbances.
Youth Build Project The LACC and Youthbuild have committed
to work together on construction training and field work for 15
to 18 corps members. This project is scheduled to begin in April
of 1993. The LACC has secured a satellite spot in East Los
Angeles where the project will be implemented.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION (CRF)
CRF's Youth Tack Force LA, consists of 30 teams made up of high
school and continuing school or community agency youth, to heal
and rebuild communities. The goal is to provide training and
assistance in planning and implementing projects in their schools
and neighborhoods. Projects are focused on the following issues:
youth development and urban education; police and community
relations; community and economic development; and race
relations.
LOS ANGELES UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT /
TEEN OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY
The teen outreach partnership is focused on youth who attend Los
Angeles Unified School Districts Senior High School because of
academic, behavioral and/or attendance difficulties. The
partnership plans to provide 200 youth in eleven schools with
classroom instruction and community service opportunities which
promote self-esteem, life management skills, educational
achievement, civic responsibility and prosocial behavior.
LACC, CRA AND LAUSD
The above three mentioned service groups have combined efforts
which will include LACC's Clean and Green middle school program
to integrate service-learning activities throughout the core
content areas. School staff, students and community members will
work together in assessing community needs, identifying resources
and planning worthwhile service projects that will allow
approximately 700 students to apply their classroom learning in a
positive and productive way.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
UCLA has 43 student initiated projects that involve as many as
5,000 students. These projects range from legal aid to tutorial
programs in such areas as Watts and South Central LA. The
Community Service Commission at UCLA is part of the student
government and lead by a campus elected officer.
Some of the programs at UCLA have been around for 25 years, they
view their participation not as rebuilding LA, but as continuing
a long standing goal of community development.