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Cincinnati Change Headquarters512 CarMalt StreetCincinnati, Ohio,45219Phone: 513.429.3643E-Mail:[email protected] 2009@hersheldaniels,junior

Cincinnati Changes Mission is toErase the Digital Divide that

increases economic justice andAfrican American business

ownershipin southern Ohio from aheadquarters in Cincinnati.

Chairwoman

COL.[KY.]WANDA J.LLOYD-DANIELS, IBEW

Cincinnati Change wasestablished in 1988 and is

celebrating 20 years in 2009.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

To: Councilman Cecil Thomas

From: Fred Hargrove, Sr., PE, MBA

We at Cincinnati Change, look forward to your hearings and future legislation which will address

problems not discussed everyday. We now have, in Cincinnati, the evidence of economic discrimination

and look to the US Attorney General who knows the laws and looks for them to be enforced from thefederal level to the local.

I am a member of the steering Committee of the National Growth and Fairness Campaign which has

reviewed past political agreements, laws, decrees, studies, governing compacts and their effects on the

social, economic development environment prior to the Obama Presidency. The National FairnessCampaign has also identified past historic moral gaps. The National Growth and Fairness Campaign has

chosen Ohio [and we Cincinnati] as a focal point of the National Fairness Campaign because it is

Middle America, and has demonstrated past and current innovations to address fairness and capacitybuilding, including state government minority business development programs, initiatives to increase the

budget for the African American Businesses, and the creation a 20,000 household federal solutions such

as the American Reinvestment & Recovery Program [as law].

To date, we have held three sessions whose subjects were taxes, civil rights, and what worked. Wekicked off the series as a member of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and based on a

report dated May, 2006 called Closing the Credit Gap and Expanding the Credit Opportunity: The CRA

and Fair Lending Performance of Financial Institutions in the City of Cincinnati. These sessions

support Cincinnati Change in its plans to create a financial instrument capable of financing arevolutionary health care infrastructure based on established technology and licensed patents. It will be

capable of supporting people with best practice health care and open source economic development. It

is tied to a comprehensive housing program that Erases the Digital Divide by embedding technologyinto homes and businesses locations throughout Hamilton county, with its headquarters in Cincinnati.

If there is any way that we may be of help from Cincinnnati Change and/or from our National Growthand Fairness Campaign, please let me know.

/s/Fred Hargrove,Sr.

Fred Hargrove, Sr. PE.MBA

Trustee of Cincinnati Change, Inc.President at Hargrove Engineering LLC

National Steering Committee Board Member of the National Growth and Fairness Campaign

Enclosure: 20 Page Cincinnati Change summary of activities over past 90 days in support of MBEs


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To: United States Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Chair Congressional Black Caucus

From: Dr. Robert Day, Convener, National Fairness and Growth Symposiums, Joseph Debro, General Chairman,National Fairness and Growth Campaign Committee

50 years or is it 400 =.99% nationally or .4955% Ohio* of all business revenue earned by African Americans

What have been the ramifications and implications of these shameful, tragic figures on the economic health of

black communities and the country as a whole?

This is a follow up to my telephone call regarding our concerns and hopes relative to the very fast moving AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Plan (ARRP), now public law as of February 17th, the American Recovery andReinvestment Act, and its counterpart the TARP initiatives.

We have created a grass roots campaign composed of practitioners who have a long term operational knowledge opast practices and are very familiar with the philosophies, strategies, approaches, programs and projects ostensiblydesigned to address the history and practice of discrimination towards African Americans, and subsequently othedisadvantaged? (by some standard) groups.

We seek not to have negative presumptions regarding the current planning or execution of the ARRA and TARP orthe soon to be proposed general budget. We seek to provide solutions gained from the hard earned insight into

potential enforcement of existing public laws, regulations and new initiatives and programs through the use of BestPractices See attachments). We have gathered this information from two recently held National Symposiums inCincinnati, and Cleveland Ohio and a third to be conducted March 9, in Washington DC, with more to follow acrossthe country.

The National Fairness Campaign has reviewed past political agreements, laws, decrees, predicate studiesgoverning compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment prior to the ObamaPresidency. The National Fairness Campaign has also identified past historic moral gaps.We have chosenOhio asone of the focal points of the National Fairness Campaign, because it is Middle America, and has demonstratedpast and current innovations to address fairness and capacity building, including state government minoritybusiness development programs, initiatives to increase the budget for the African American Males Commissionand the creation of the proposed American Reinvestment & Recovery Program and other federal solutions.

The National Fairness Campaign will hold Symposium SESSION III A Best

Practices Review & Summary Recommendations to be Conducted at the

Marshall Heights Community Development Organization Headquarters at 3939

Benning Road NE Washington, DC 20019

Monday, March 9th 2009, Washington, DC 10:00 AM - 4:00PM


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We do know as stated in previous communication to leaders of government that the African American in particularhas been "gamed" as shamefully and painfully illustrated by the sample information below. *These statistics are inreverse order. Data sources: U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 Survey of Business Owners and 1197 Survey of Minority-owned business Enterprises.

Receipts per Firm 2002 1997

African (Black) American $74,018 $86,479**

Native American $133,439 $174,070

Hispanic $141,044 $155,242

Islander $147,837 $213,629

Asian $296,002 $338,852

White $415,974 $448,294

Female $144,784 $151,129

Equally Owned $271,660 $254,261

Male $535,574 $583,371

Publicly Owned $27,953,370 $26,633,646

** We believe these numbers reflect, Fronts, pass-throughs, and other schemes calculated to get thenumbers.

National Fairness Campaign Steering Committee

General Chairman Joesph Debro Co-Founder, National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) Co-Chairwoman Pandora Ramsay, Founding President , Ohio Fairness Campaign Co-Chairman Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA. former Chairman of Cincinnati Change Co-Chairman Irvin Henderson, former Chairman, National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) Convener Dr. Robert Day PhD, President, Center for Urban & Rural RedevelopmentSteering Committee Advisor and Panel ModeratorLawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW,LTD contact 614.622.4808 or [email protected]
http://www.ncrc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=45&Itemid=91http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/5b8/597http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/5b8/597http://www.ncrc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=45&Itemid=91


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National Fairness Campaign Symposium SESSION III

Our Best Practices Recommendationsto be Conducted at the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization Headquarters, 3939

Benning Road NE Washington, DC 20019 Monday, March 9th 2009, Washington, DC 10:00 AM - 4:00PM

1. Review job development and training programs and opportunities and make recommendationson Fed, State & Local levels

2. Apply same compliance standards to all categories of DBE/MBE/FBE and SBE business firms,construction mangers and other professional service providers.

3. Insure that minority workers get skilled trades training and work opportunities

4. Utilize functional Joint Venture Structures

5. Strengthen & re-staff Office of Federal Contract Compliance

6. Strengthen & re-staff Small business Development, Training and Technical Assistanceprograms

7. Support more funds for outreach and education regarding Small Business Developmentprograms and Job Matching programs with emphasis on close ties to businesses needingaccess to capital and workforce training

8. Provide Start-Up Angel Investment & Venture Capital to more MBE firms

9. Increase availability and parameters of requirements for of loan guarantees for all businesses10. Create and utilize successful models of private and public Planned Labor Agreements i.e.

Cleveland Ohio, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, etc

11. Provide opportunities for minority investors and entrepreneurs and workers to take advantageof investment, contracting, and work opportunities within new Community Developmentinitiatives arising from foreclosure crisis and ARRP and TARP funds

12. Utilize existing predicate studies and consent decrees to alter opportunity structures andspecific opportunities.

13. Set as a condition policy & governance inclusion for all sectors receiving federal governmentand/or Federal Reserve Bank assistance

14. Provide increased funds for technical assistance for NGOs owned or controlled by

discriminated and/or disadvantaged groups15. Insure that broadband investments include opportunities for minority investors, entrepreneurs,

and workers to engage in deployment of broadband on infrastructure, hardware, software andimplementation phases

16. Insure that healthcare reform include opportunities for minority organizations, investors,entrepreneurs, and workers to engage in reform efforts through engaging in awareness,education, and advocacy of healthcare reform and implementation of healthcare reforminitiatives (i.e.new HIT infrastructure, hardware, software and implementation, and preventionprograms)


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National Fairness Campaign Symposium SESSION IIIA Best Practices Review & Summary Recommendations

to be Conducted at the Marshall Heights Community DevelopmentOrganization Headquarters at 3939 Benning Road NE Washington, DC 20019

Monday, March 9th 2009, Washington, DC 10:00 AM - 4:00PM

Agenda

10:00 10:15AM

General Chairman, Joseph Debro, Convener Dr.Robert Day, Invited: James Short, Marshall HeightsCommunity Development Organization (MHCDO)

Chairman

Call to Order and Introductions

10:15 -10:30 AM

Dr. Robert Day, Co- Chair Pandora Ramsay-FoundingPresident Ohio Fairness Campaign,

National Growth and Fairness Conference 50Year Review

10:30 -11:00AM

Dr. Robert Day, Pandora Ramsay, Invited: Michael I.Watts, Jr. MHCDO, President & CEO

Marshall Heights Community DevelopmentOrganization 2009 who we are and what we

do?

11:00 11:30AM

Co-Chair Fred Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA, Mark Batson,Executive Director PolicyBridge,Inc , Carl White

President NetVideo

Health Policy Options and Telemedicine withthe ability to develop a DC Biosafety Level 4

(BSL-4) Laboratory Simulation11:30 -

12:00 AM Working discussion on best practices during Lunch12:00

12:30 PMHershel Daniels Co-founder MDi, CDW, Tessco, Broadband America and SMART Buildings

12:30 1:00 PM

Irvin Henderson President Henderson Company,Michael Watts, Marshall Heights President/CEO, Doris

Saruni, Senior Developer (MHCDO)

Commercial, Retail and Residential Dev,LEED Buildings, TARP

1:00 -1:20 PM

Thomas Waters, Lead Developer (MHCDO), MarshallHeights, Invited: Shaun Redgate, COO Chancellor

University (Cleveland, Ohio)

Next Generation Workforce Development andthe American Labor Market

1:20 -1:40 PM

Fredrick H. Hargrove, President Contract InfinityGroup. Invited: Owen Jackson, DC MBDC, Andrea

Harris, North Carolina Institute for Minority BusinessDevelopment

Small Business Development and TechnicalAssistance

1:40 -2:00 PM Irvin Henderson, Dr. Robert Day Invited: NationalCommunity Reinvestment Coalition, Access to Capital & Credit

2:00 -2:40 PM

Lawrence Auls-Panel Moderator The National Fairness Campaign Revisited

2:40 -3:00 PM

In Person and Teleconference Panelists Best Practices Recommendations Review

3:00 -3:40 PM

In Person and Teleconference Panelists National Recommendations

3:40 -4:00 PM

Joseph Debro, Dr. Robert Day, Pandora Ramsay,Lawrence Auls

Wrap-up

The current host agencies is DC Change blog us at http://dcchange.blogspot.com Email: [email protected]
http://natichange.blogspot.com/http://natichange.blogspot.com/


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National Fairness Campaign Symposium SESSION III

Our Best Practices Recommendationsto be Conducted at the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization

Headquarters, 3939 Benning Road NE Washington, DC 20019Monday, March 9th 2009, Washington, DC 10:00 AM - 4:00PM

C U R R E N T S Y M P O S I U M S P O N S O R S


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512512 CarmaltCarmalt Street, Suite 1A, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219Street, Suite 1A, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219

TargetedTargetedSBE EconomicSBE Economic

Development for 1,000Development for 1,000

That CreatesThat Creates

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Private/PublicPrivate/Public

use of federal, stateuse of federal, state

&& local resourceslocal resources

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change in 20,000change in 20,000

HouseholdsHouseholds

In CincinnatiIn CincinnatiCincinnati Change envisionan alliance for a sea-chang

to take place through a newera in American homeownership used as a basiscreating a global network tsupports small businessesoperated from many of thehomes.


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Cincinnati Change will build technology into homesCincinnati Change will build technology into homesWe will buy and rebuilthomes to meet a universalliving standard as put forthin our public privatepartnership best practicescenter.

All our homes will havethe lead and otherenvironmental andstructural problemsremoved.All our homes will have

state of the art durablenext generationappliances and MEPsystemsThese homes will haveMDi Nex Gen SOHOElectronics including

gigbyte fiber connections,universal wireless , HDTVready with broadbandinternet with VOIP, MDiConvergence Connectivityand Communications andmonthly services under a

multiple year contract.


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FrederickDouglas

Those who profess toThose who profess tofavor freedom, yetfavor freedom, yet

deprecate agitation, aredeprecate agitation, aremen who want cropsmen who want crops

without plowing up thewithout plowing up the

ground. They want rainground. They want rainwithout thunder andwithout thunder andlightening. They want thelightening. They want theocean without the awfulocean without the awfulroar of its many waters.roar of its many waters.This struggle may be aThis struggle may be a

moral one; or it may be amoral one; or it may be aphysical one; or it may bephysical one; or it may beboth moral and physical;both moral and physical;but it must be a struggle.but it must be a struggle.

Power concedes nothingPower concedes nothingwithout a demand. It neverwithout a demand. It never

did and it never will."did and it never will."

Cincinnati Change will use federal, state and local taCincinnati Change will use federal, state and local tacodes and other governmental programs includingcodes and other governmental programs including

SBA loans, TARP and the Empowerment Zone 139SBA loans, TARP and the Empowerment Zone 139Bonds to create financial instruments which addresBonds to create financial instruments which addres

the needs of 20,000 households in Cincinnatithe needs of 20,000 households in Cincinnati


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Cincinnati Changes Mission is toErase the Digital Divide in support

of Global Change NOW thatincreases economic justice and

homeownershipin southern Ohiofrom a headquarters in Cincinnati.

Chairman Elect

WANDA LLOYD-DANIELS, IBEW



Cincinnati Change Capacity Building Symposium Enforcement and Regulation[Sess ion III]

A Retrospective & Best Practices Identification Symposium

Part of the Road to Economic Recovery & the National Fairness CampaignConvener of the Cincinnati Capacity Building Symposium

Dr. Smith,President of the Cincinnati Change Center for Southern Ohio Redevelopment

To be held at the Cincinnati Public Library Correyville Branch

Friday 20th 2009, Cincinnati, Ohio 9:00 AM - 5:00PM

Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator, Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD

U50 YEAR REVIEW & ANALYSISU:

Cincinnati Capacity Building Symposium as part of the

National Fairness Campaign will review past political

agreements and governing compacts and their relationship tothe social, economic development environment under an

Obama Presidency and its relevancy to Hamilton County.

Cincinnati Capacity Building Symposium will also identifyand address historic moral gaps by examination of the Office

of Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, Setasides,

Affirmative Access, Diversity, Inclusion, New Markets TaxCredits, Business Development Programs, EmpowermentZones, Model Cities, CDBG, DOL Workforce Development

Grants, Community Action Agencies, Structures, Approaches,

and delivery systems for Opportunity[s] and Capacity

Building.

Cincinnati Change Steering Committee

http://natichange.blogspot.com

Chairwoman Col. [Ky.] Wanda J Lloyd DanielsFounding and Current Chairwoman of CincinnatiChange and IBEW Journywoman.

Vice Chairwoman Hershel Daniels, Junior, CoFounding Managing Director of MDi

Treasurer Fredrick Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA.former Chairman of Cincinnati Change

Convener, Dr. Smith PhD, President, CincinnatiChange Center for Southern Ohio Redevelopment

Rev. Vera Cole, Pastor at Keys of the KingdomUMC, national spiritual leader and a published author


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Cincinnati Changes Mission is toErase the Digital Divide in support

of Global Change NOW thatincreases economic justice and

homeownershipin southern Ohiofrom a headquarters in Cincinnati.

Chairman Elect

WANDA LLOYD-DANIELS, IBEW



This Retrospective & Best Practices Identification Symposium will exploreWHAT WORKED? WHY NOT?

Among the issues to be reviewed

War On Poverty: Community Action Agencies, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964,, Demonstration Citiesand Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1968

Black Capitalism, Philadelphia Plan, Selected Contractors & Construction Apprenticeship Strategy Programs Executive Order 8802 Fair Employment Practices and follow-on actions Public Law 95-507 and modifications Ohio House Bill 584 Set Aside and its descendants such as EDGE The Small Business Investment Act and Minority capitalization programs such as Specialized SBICs Small Business Administration (SBA) and other business economic and technical assistance programs CETA, New Careers, Jobs Corps, Military Service, Peace Corp, Vista Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones National and Regional Purchasing Councils Positive capacity building pass-throughs, joint ventures, and mentor protgs Non capacity building pass-throughs, fronts, and joint ventures Troubled Assets Relief Program[s] and proposed economic recovery solutions at levels of government

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

BEST PRACTICES FOR FAIRNESS: JOBS AND CAPACITY BUILDING INFRASTRUCTUR

through the Cincinnati Change Center for Southern Ohio Redevelopment

Access to Capital & Credit Road to Recovery Commercial, Retail and

Residential Real Estate Redevelopment

Construction and LEED Buildings

Broadband America and SMART Buildings

Next Generation WorkforceDevelopment and the southern OhioLabor Market

Regional Health Policy Implementation

and Telemedicine Options


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Cincinnati Change participation on the Road ToEconomic Recovery Week of Action Dec. 7th-13th, 20

100 years of Taxes100 years of Taxes -- 1909 to 2009: The1909 to 2009: ThePeoples Open Source Tax Code at WorkPeoples Open Source Tax Code at Work

2009 through 2109, an open source2009 through 2109, an open source

development proposal for Cincinnati.development proposal for Cincinnati.


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STARTING AT

December 11, 2008 12:00 PM

ENDING AT

December 12, 2008 04:00 PM

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CINCINNATI , OH: 100 YEARS OF TAXES:THE PEOPLES OPEN SOURCE TAX CODE AT

WORKCincinnati Change plans to create a financial instrument capable of financing a

revolutionary health care prototype infrastructure for Southern Ohio, based on

established technology. It will be capable of supporting people nationwide with

best practice health care and open source economic development tied to a

comprehensive housing program that Erases the Digital Divide by embedding

technology into homes.

The name of our program is 100 years of Taxes - 1909 to 2009: The Peoples Open Source Tax Code atWork 2009 through 2109, an open source development proposal for Cincinnati.

Over the next 4 years, the 44th president will be able to set policy for the next 100 years, like another President

did.

We are a government of citizens in the midst of historic change.

In Cincinnati, we will raise funds to create the vehicle to buy 20,000 troubled and/or foreclosed mortgages in

Southern Ohio as part of our solution to erase the Development Divide. This will be done in conjunction with

property owned by investors who are willing to work with Cincinnati Change and its partners, negotiating the

restructuring existing debt will have the option of exercising subscription rights to new debt.

We plan to issue new debt instruments that will be used to put people to work. We will use our open Web 2.0

study of the current tax code to maximize a program that puts people to work in Southern Ohio. We will

concentrate principally in infrastructure with a focus on MSD [through 2029], health care, education, technology,

energy and reconstruction in Southern Ohio through tax increment financing and other revisions to the tax code

through Open Source Solutions to Erasing the Development Divide and American financial crisis.

Cincinnati Change will appeal to all levels of government and use in its application US government programs that

can be executed by the public/private alliance Cincinnati Change is assembling.

To implement this, our attorneys will be required to develop, under OMB A-76 Authority, an order that will

support export growth based on a 4 year plan to service people around the world starting with the CincinnatiEmpowerment Zone with its 50,000 residents and 68,000 employees working for over 3,000 employers.

Our offerings will be centered around digital services in support of economic development, career support, social

[L.I.S.W.] services, human [The NET Video] and health care [OneCommunity] that supports a super set of

International Standards Organization [ISO] 26000.

This Cincinnati Change Chairwoman, Wanda J Lloyd Daniels, will work with Unions while the AEC/GM team

will be led by Fred Hargrove Sr. PE, MBA [who is also a licensed master plumber] and the contracted HUD and

Tax Code programs will be directed Dr. Robert Day.

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The workshop will be presented at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Site) from

12 to 4 on this Thursday and Friday, Dec.11th and 12th, 2008.

Address

Address:

2038 Auburn Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45219

Directions

For more info email - [email protected]

Cincinnati, OH 45219

Directions

Traveling on I-75 S. Take the Mitchell Ave. exit Exit 6 toward St. Bernard/Zoo/Xavier University/VA Facility.

Turn left onto W Mitchell Ave. Turn Right onto Vine Street. Turn slight right onto Jefferson Ave. Jefferson Ave.

becomes Vine Street. Turn left onto E. Mc Millan Street. Turn right onto Auburn Ave. End at William Howard

Taft National Historic Site 2038 Auburn Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45219

Traveling on I-75 heading north bound from Kentucky Take I-75 N merge onto I-71 N Take the Reading

Rd./Eden Park exit Exit 2 on the left Keep right at the fork in the ramp Turn left onto Dorchester heading west

to Auburn Ave. Turn right onto Auburn Ave. End at William Howard Taft National Historic Site 2038 Auburn

Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45219

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Closing the Credit Gap andExpanding the Credit Opportunity:

The CRA and Fair Lending Performanceof Financial Institutions in the City of Cincinnati

May 2006

Prepared By:National Community Reinvestment Coalition

727 15th Street NWSuite 900

Washington, DC 20005(202) 628-8866www.ncrc.org

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