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 American
Recovery and Reinvestment Plan (ARRP), now public law as of February 17th, the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, and its counterpart the TARP initiatives.
We have created a grass roots campaign composed of practitioners who have a long term operational knowledge of
past practices and are very familiar with the philosophies, strategies, approaches, programs and projects ostensibly
designed to address the history and practice of discrimination towards African Americans, and subsequently other
disadvantaged? (by some standard) groups.
We seek not to have negative presumptions regarding the current planning or execution of the ARRA and TARP or
the 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 “Best
Practices” See attachments). We have gathered this information from two recently held National Symposiums in
Cincinnati, and Cleveland Ohio and a third to be conducted March 9, in Washington DC, with more to follow across
the country.
The National Fairness Campaign has reviewed past political agreements, laws, decrees, predicate studies,
governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment prior to the Obama
Presidency. The National Fairness Campaign has also identified past historic moral gaps. We have chosen Ohio as
one of the focal points of the National Fairness Campaign, because it is Middle America, and has demonstrated
past and current innovations to address fairness and capacity building, including state government minority
business development programs, initiatives to increase the budget for the African American Males Commission,
and 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
We do know as stated in previous communication to leaders of government that the African American in particular
has been "gamed" as shamefully and painfully illustrated by the sample information below. *These statistics are in
reverse 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 the
“numbers”.

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 Redevelopment

Steering Committee Advisor and Panel Moderator

Lawrence Auls, Chairman of MDi, Executive Director LISW, LTD contact 614.622.4808 or ldg349@aol.com
 National Fairness Campaign Symposium “SESSION III”
Our Best Practices Recommendations
to 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 recommendations
on 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 Assistance
programs
7. Support more funds for outreach and education regarding Small Business Development
programs and Job Matching programs with emphasis on close ties to businesses needing
access 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 businesses
10. 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 advantage
of investment, contracting, and work opportunities within new Community Development
initiatives arising from foreclosure crisis and ARRP and TARP funds
12. Utilize existing predicate studies and consent decrees to alter opportunity structures and
specific opportunities.
13. Set as a condition policy & governance inclusion for all sectors receiving federal government
and/or Federal Reserve Bank assistance
14. Provide increased funds for technical assistance for NGO’s owned or controlled by
discriminated and/or disadvantaged groups
15. Insure that broadband investments include opportunities for minority investors, entrepreneurs,
and workers to engage in deployment of broadband on infrastructure, hardware, software and
implementation 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 reform
initiatives (i.e.new HIT infrastructure, hardware, software and implementation, and prevention
programs)
National Fairness Campaign 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
Agenda
General Chairman, Joseph Debro, Convener Dr.
10:00 –
Robert Day, Invited: James Short, Marshall Heights
10:15 Call to Order and Introductions
AM Community Development Organization (MHCDO)
Chairman
10:15 - Dr. Robert Day, Co- Chair Pandora Ramsay-Founding National Growth and Fairness Conference 50
10:30 AM President Ohio Fairness Campaign, Year Review
10:30 - Marshall Heights Community Development
Dr. Robert Day, Pandora Ramsay, Invited: Michael I.
11:00 Organization 2009 who we are and what we
AM Watts, Jr. MHCDO, President & CEO
do?
11:00 – Co-Chair Fred Hargrove, Sr. PE, MBA, Mark Batson, Health Policy Options and Telemedicine with
11:30 Executive Director PolicyBridge,Inc , Carl White the ability to develop a DC Biosafety Level 4
AM President NetVideo (BSL-4) Laboratory Simulation
11:30 -
12:00 AM
Working discussion on best practices during Lunch
12:00 –
12:30 PM
Hershel Daniels Co-founder MDi, CDW, Tessco, Broadband America and SMART Buildings
Irvin Henderson President Henderson Company,
12:30 – Commercial, Retail and Residential Dev,
1:00 PM
Michael Watts, Marshall Heights President/CEO, Doris
LEED Buildings, TARP
Saruni, Senior Developer (MHCDO)
Thomas Waters, Lead Developer (MHCDO), Marshall
1:00 - Next Generation Workforce Development and
1:20 PM
Heights, Invited: Shaun Redgate, COO Chancellor
the American Labor Market
University (Cleveland, Ohio)
Fredrick H. Hargrove, President Contract Infinity
1:20 - Group. Invited: Owen Jackson, DC MBDC, Andrea Small Business Development and Technical
1:40 PM Harris, North Carolina Institute for Minority Business Assistance
Development
1:40 - Irvin Henderson, Dr. Robert Day Invited: National
2:00 PM
Access to Capital & Credit
Community Reinvestment Coalition,
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 - Joseph Debro, Dr. Robert Day, Pandora Ramsay,
4:00 PM
Wrap-up
Lawrence Auls
The current host agencies is DC Change blog us at http://dcchange.blogspot.com Email: ldgheg@aol.com
 National Fairness Campaign Symposium “SESSION III”
Our Best Practices Recommendations
to 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
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 National Fairness Campaign 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
The National Fairness Campaign will review past political agreements, laws, decrees, predicate
studies, governing compacts and their relationship to the social, economic development environment
prior too under the Obama Presidency. The National Fairness Campaign will also identify and address
historic moral gaps. Ohio is a focal point of the National Fairness Campaign because it is Middle
America, and has demonstrated past and current innovations to address fairness and capacity building,
including state government minority business development programs, initiatives to increase the budget
for the African American Males Commission, and the creation of the proposed American
Reinvestment & Recovery Program and federal solutions.

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