WEBINAR: Cities United: Reducing Violence and Violent Deaths Among Black Men and Boys Thursday, April 18, 2013 2:30 p.m.

1. WEBINAR: Cities United: Reducing Violence and Violent Deaths Among Black Men and BoysThursday, April 18, 20132:30 p.m. Eastern Time Speakers: Everett Gillison, Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff, Office of the Mayor, City of Philadelphia, Pa. Antoinette Malveaux, Managing Director, Casey Family Programs

20. False Universalism: Reducing Violent Deaths Among Black Males • Armed with this knowledge, many communities still take a universal approach to violence prevention strategy, programming, and evaluation. • “Universal approaches that are not sensitive to the needs of the particular have uneven impact (Powell, 2011).” • False universalism assumes that targeted policies that address the needs of certain populations become a divisive wedge.  • False universalism also assumes that everyone benefits from universal approaches. But universal approaches that are not sensitive to the needs of the particular are never truly universal; they tend to have an uneven impact, and can even exacerbate racial inequality at times. • We need to be universal in our goals but not in our process.

21. The Cities United Vision • Mayors and other city leaders across the country will form partnerships with other local government officials, community leaders, families, youth, philanthropies, and other stakeholders within their respective cities dedicated to reducing violence and violence-related deaths among African-American men and boys.

22. Cities United: Key Partners Principals • City of Philadelphia • City of New Orleans • Open Society Foundations’ Campaign for Black Male Achievement • Casey Family Programs • National League of Cities Core Planning Team • Association of Black Foundation Executives • Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families • John S. and James L. Knight Foundation • U.S. Conference of Mayors • Three appointed youth leaders

23. Cities United: Participating Mayors • Mayor Mitch Landrieu - New Orleans, LA • Mayor Setti Warren - Newton, MA • Mayor Leon Rockingham, Jr. - North Chicago, IL • Mayor Andre Pierre - North Miami, FL • Mayor Michael Nutter - Philadelphia, PA • Mayor Brenda Lawrence - Southfield, MI • Mayor Marilyn Strickland - Tacoma, WA • Mayor Bob Buckhorn – Tampa, FL • Mayor Shelley Walsh - University City, MO • Mayor Vincent Gray - Washington, DC • Mayor Ed Pawlowski-Allentown, PA • Mayor Thomas M. Menino - Boston, MA • Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. - Charleston, SC • Mayor Anthony Foxx - Charlotte, NC • Mayor Rahm Emanuel - Chicago, IL • Mayor Frank Jackson - Cleveland, OH • Mayor Michael Coleman - Columbus, OH • Mayor Michael Hancock - Denver, CO • Mayor William Bell - Durham, NC • Mayor Harvey Johnson -Jackson, MS • Mayor Greg Fischer - Louisville, KY • Mayor Paul Soglin- Madison, WI

24. BMA Municipal Action Guide • BMA Guide: • The Challenge • Strategies • Action Steps • Resources • Action Steps: • Strengthening families • Improving educational achievement • Expanding access to family-supporting jobs • Reducing violence and violence-related deaths

25. NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education, and Families • City Leadership to Promote Black Male Achievement: • www.nlc.org/iyef • Request additional print copies by emailing black@nlc.org • Contacts: • Leon T. Andrews, Jr., (202) 626-3039 or andrews@nlc.org • Jerrilyn Black, (202) 626-3128 or black@nlc.org

26. Cities United: Webinar April 18, 2013 Antoinette M. Malveaux Managing Director of Strategic Engagements and Initiatives

27. Why Cities United? Many foundations focus their investments on improving the well-being of communities, and care about ensuring a socially just environment for their residents.

28. Why Cities United? Because of the epidemic of violence in some cities, certain interventions are needed to break the cycle of violence, and provide positive alternatives and pathways for the communities and residentswhere specific foundations fund.

29. The role of Foundations Foundations hold a valuable position in the fabric of communities. They can: • Help raise awareness and sustain the focus on an issue • Convene disparate organizations and leaders– politicians, policy makers, advocates, community organizations, faith institutions, etc.– to focus collectively and continually on an issue

30. The role of Foundations Foundations can: • Bring experts into a conversation to help frame the thinking around appropriate interventions, which includes bringing research, data, and content • Invest in programs that are innovative or show promising practices; help conduct evaluations to become evidence-based; spread evidence-based programs to other communities

31. The role of Foundations Foundations can: • Target their dollars on effected-groups in a way government may not be able to • Be an effective partner and catalyst for partnership within communities

32. On Violence This issue is gaining national attention for many reasons: • Data • Devastating impact on communities and neighborhoods • Devastating impact on families and children • Prevalence of guns – illegal guns that are used in violent crimes in communities • Flashpoint incidences that catalyze action (i.e. Sandy Hook)

33. On Violence There is a lack of opportunities and positive pathways for many low-income and marginalized youth and families, especially those of color. Opportunities include: • Access to quality education • Access to living wage and legal employment • Policies that prevent denying access to employment, housing, and basic rights for those re-entering society

34. Foundations focused on Black Males Foundations focused on Black Males in education achievement, include: • Open Society Foundations: Campaign for Black Male Achievement • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Gathering of Leaders • The California Endowment: Building Healthy Communities,(3 of 14 communities in California on life outcomes for Black Men) • The Heinz Endowment: African American Men and Boys Initiative • The Knight Foundation: What it Takes; and “Boy Don’t Turn your Back: The Power of Resilience)

35. Foundations focused on Black Males Foundations focused on Black Males in education achievement, include: • Mitchell Kapor Foundation: Black Boys College Bound Initiative • Schott Foundation for Public Education: The Black Male Donor Collaborative • Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation: Black Male Retention in College • Association of Black Foundation Executives: Black Men & Boys Initiative • Grantmakers for Children Youth and Families: Healthy Men, Healthy Communities

36. Foundations focused on Black Males Other emerging collaborative efforts: • The Joyce Foundation • Boys and Men of Color Foundation Leaders Pledge to Action • Cities United • California Community Foundation – BLOOM

37. How Foundations Engage with Cities United • Foundations, regardless of the scope of grantmaking (local, state, regional, or national) can participate as partners • Foundations that don’t have an explicit portfolio focused on men and boys of color, or black males, can participate as partners

38. How Foundations Engage with Cities United Locally, Foundations can engage by: • Working with Mayors in the cities that join Cities United • If your city, or a city you fund, is not involved, engage with the Mayor and help influence him or her to participate in Cities United

39. How Foundations can support Cities United Locally, Foundations can engage by: • Providing support based off of results from the Cities Unitedassessment • Help provide access to thought leaders and opportunities to share “best thinking” in order to develop a comprehensive strategy

40. How Foundations can support Cities United • Expert consultation: consider engaging grantees and staff to work with Cities United city leaders to address specific challenges faced by Black men and boys • Leverage your convening power: bring organizations together and support the collaboration process between groups. When Foundations call, typically organizations (i.e. community-based, city, business, and other public sector representatives), will come

41. How Foundations can support Cities United • Give advice on how to partner and collaborate: encourage existing grantees to work together to meet the needs of black men and boys

42. How National Funders can support Cities United • Fund complementary strategies. For example: fund youth engagement and youth leadership strategies that focus on or are intentional in including Black youth • Engage Mayors in cities where your grantmaking is focused; encourage Mayors to participate in Cities United

43. How National Funders can support Cities United • Support implementing Cities United nationally. Resources are needed to fund TA efforts, communications, national convenings, national experts, project management

44. How National Funders can support Cities United • Provide experts from your consulting and grantee network to provide TA to Cities Unitedcities • Provide general support for Cities United

45. Finding Funding for Black Men and Boys Efforts • See previously mentioned organizations • BMAfunders.org – a resource within foundation center, funded by Open Society Foundation – provides access to • Interactive mapping tool with funding data • Timeline of philanthropic milestones in the field • Tools and resources for assessing project outcomes • Research reports and case studies • Video and multi-media content

46. Cities United: Our Young Men Can’t Wait Presented by the City of Philadelphia Steps cities can take now to stop the violence.

47. The Philadelphia Landscape • The total number of murders committed in 2012 was 331 • In 2011, there were 316 murders in Philadelphia. • 75% of those murder victims were black males. • 80% of those homicides were committed by black males.

48. Build Political Will to Change Mayor Nutter through his national profile has engaged mayors across the country on not only the issue of the deaths of Black men and boys, but also: Is a chief advocate for Mayors Against Illegal Guns Developed The Sandy Hook Principals Worked with Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to close the Florida loophole

49. Create grids across the city to identify the neighborhoods most in need. The PhillyRising Collaborative is the City of Philadelphia’s new way of doing business. PhillyRising targets neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia that are plagued by chronic crime and quality of life concerns, and establishes partnerships with community members to address these issues. The primary objective is to: Fight crime and the fear of crime; including terrorism Build sustainable, responsive solutions to the concerns of people living and working in each neighborhood Develop cost-effective methods for improving service delivery to each neighborhood; Help those living and working in the PhillyRising neighborhoods to realize their vision for their community.

50. Create a City-wide Commission Originally established in 1991 by then Mayor W. Wilson Goode the Mayor’s Commission on African-American Males is tasked to address the issues related to unemployment, incarceration, lack of education and health within the community. Re-instituted in September 2011 by Mayor Michael Nutter, the commission will seek solutions to the issues facing the community, as well as establish policy recommendations for opportunities and programs specific to African American Males.