Evaluating Strategies for Promoting Minority Construction Contracting

This analysis addresses the issue of disparity between minority-owned businesses and non minority-owned businesses in securing city contracts in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Understanding the implications of unfair contract disbursement on the economy of Grand Rapids is extremely important as the city becomes more diverse. It is important that Grand Rapids remain a viable city and to do so, fairness in contract disbursement must be addressed. It examines the previous policy which required businesses to maintain a percentage of minority workers, the policy used by the city of Chicago which sets aside a certain portion of city contracts for minority owned businesses, and the current policy which uses a discount program to help achieve diversity in awarding contracts. This analysis examines each policy on five criteria: 1) Does the program increase access to government contracts? 2) What is the percentage increase of minority and women businesses in city contracts? 3) Can the policy stand up in the courts? 4) What is the cost to the city? 5) Is the policy politically feasible

An Experiment in Scaling Impact: Assessing the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot

This report presents an assessment of the Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot. It was commissioned by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, founder and lead investor of the grantmaking initiative.Starting in 2000, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (Clark) adopted an investment approach to grantmaking that focused on providing growth capital to youth-serving organizations with demonstrated commitments to evaluation and measurable outcomes. For grantees, the strategy meant larger, longer-term, unrestricted investments, complemented by extensive access to consulting and technical assistance to strengthen their organizations.This approach helped Clark grantees across the portfolio increase the numbers of youth they served (for example, by 18 percent between 2005 and 2006) and achieve annual revenue gains (averaging 19 percent over the four years prior to the founding of GCAP). At the same time, the Foundation concluded that more capital would be required if its grantees and other promising youth-serving organizations were to realize their ultimate scale and sustainability potential

UA94/6/1 Charles Taylor Scrapbook

Scrapbook created by Charles and Barbara Taylor regarding Charles\u27 participation on the WKU football team. Includes clippings, correspondence and football game programs

Heroic Families and Utopian Histories

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A mass spectrometer for isotope analysis

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1949. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive