Eisenhower Foundation

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The Eisenhower Foundation continues the work of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot Commission, formed after the 1960s riots in large cities) and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (the National Violence Commission, formed after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy

It is a nonprofit organization, located in Washington, D.C.;the President and Chief Executive Officer is Alan Curtis, Ph.D.

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[edit] Mission

The program aims at improving the status of the lower strata of American society, the most disadvantaged, by investigation and advocay.

There are five current programs: five program models:

  1. Youth Safe Haven/Police Mentoring Programs
  2. Quantum Opportunities Programs for high school youth
  3. Full-service community schools
  4. Argus Education and Job Training
  5. Reintegration of Previously Incarcerated Persons

[edit] Publications

  • Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: restoring America’s promise at home and abroad, edited by Alan Curtis, 2004 (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/formulate.php)
  • The Millennium Breach: Richer, Poorer, and Racially Apart, by Alan Curtis
  • Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, Edited by Fred R. Harris and Alan Curtis, 1998

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. Eisenhower Foundation statement (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/about.php)
  2. . National Programs/Replicating and Evaluating (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/replicating.php)
  3. . Capacity Building (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/capacity.php)
  4. . Policy Formulation (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/formulate.php)

[edit] External links

  1. (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/index.php Eisenhower Foundation Web Site
  2. (http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/ BostonSunGlobeKernerReport30.Mar1.pdf Kerner Report