The document summarizes Advancement Project's 15 years of work promoting civil rights and equity. It highlights key accomplishments such as securing $1 billion for education funding, training over 2,500 advocates, and transforming the LAPD approach to community policing. It also shows the growth of the organization from 4 staff and a $700,000 budget to over 45 staff and a $7 million budget. The document celebrates Advancement Project's impact and innovation in achieving greater equity and opportunity for underserved communities.

1. Advancement Project
CELEBRATING
15YEARSOF CIVIL RIGHTS INNOVATIONS
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERSContributions received from Nov. 1, 2013-Oct. 31, 2014
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS
$25,000 - $100,000
Ron Burkle/The Yucaipa Company
Molly Munger & Steve English
Janet & Tom Unterman
$15,000 - $24,999
Paula & Barry Litt
Wendy Munger & Leonard Gumport
$10,000 - $14,999
Carol & Frank Biondi
Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch
Katie McGrath & JJ Abrams
$5,000 - $9,999
Aileen Adams & Geoff Cowan
Jan Adams & John Lyons
Joe Alvarez
Roberta Conroy
Georgianna Erskine
Bill Lann Lee
Mary Adams O’Connell & Kevin O’Connell
Claire Spiegel & Brad Brian
Elizabeth & Paul Walker
$2,500 - $4,999
Robert Adler
Don Attore
Kathy & Ambassador Frank Baxter
Ofer Bleiweiss
Beth Burnam
Ruth & Robert Dell
Carolyn & Robert Denham
Patty Glaser & Sam Mudie
Penda Hair & Neil Eggleston
Arlene Holt
Emilie & Douglas Ogden
Jane & Ron Olson
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
Sheila Thomas
Aryn DrakeLee-Williams & Jesse Williams
$1,000 - $2,499
Anne & Olin Barrett
Sonja Berggren & Patrick Seaver
Deb & Andrew Bogen
Frieda Caplan
Celia Chavez & Ruben Balter
John Clair
Alice & Joseph Coulumbe
Carol Eliel & Tom Muller
Jennifer & William Fain
Brenda & Tom Freiberg
Erika Glazer
Maureen Kindel
Lisa Krueger & Bob Wyman
Dale Mason
Arlene Mayerson & Allan Tinker
Sarah O’Neill & Barry Munger
Nicole & Allan Mutchnik
Cecilia Peck
Ann & Tom Pfister
Sarah Pillsbury
Carol & Glenn Pomerantz
Connie Rice
Marc Seltzer
Shirley & Ralph Shapiro
Suzanne Rheinstein
Brenda & Virgil Roberts
Thomas Rubin
Reba & Geoff Thomas
Belinda Smith Walker & Jack Walker
Diane Wittenberg & David Minning
Evelyn Yoshimira & Bruce Iwasaki
Henry Yost
$500 - $9,999
Susan & Michael Bierman
Kafi & Councilmember Bob Blumenfield
Louise & John Brinsley
Karla & Richard Chernick
Jennifer & Royce Diener
Susan & Blase Dillingham
The Honorable Anita Dymant
& Richard Drooyan
Arthur Greenberg
Linda Griego & Ron Peterson
Carolyn & Grover Heyler
Ursula Hyman
Martha Jordan & Dave Lee
Katharine King
Carol Kocivar
Sherry & Joel Krischer
Susan & Robert Long
Dianne Magee
Lynn McCarthy & Ted Leary
Trish & Steve McMahon
Kathy & Bill Meeske
Vicki & Gary Olson
Douglas Otto
Vickie & Jack Pettker
Carol & Laurence Pretty
Georgina & Alan Rothenberg
Kathleen Salvaty
Robin Salzer
Hope Tschopik Schneider
Nancy & William Scott
Leslie Swain & Bert Deixler
Margery Tabankin
Coralyn & Peter Taylor
Dean Tipps
Dahni Tsuboi & Pete Manzo
Andrea & John Van de Kamp
Liza White
FOUNDATION & CORPORATE
SUPPORTERS
211 LA County
Achieving America Family Foundation
Alfred C. Munger Foundation
Alliance for Early Success
American Endowment Foundation
Battle Creek Community Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Boeing Global Corporate Citizenship
Bruce Karatz Family Foundation
California Community Foundation
California Teachers Association
Comcast |NBCUniversal
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
First 5 California
First 5 LA
Garcia Hernandez Sawhney & Bermudez LLP
Heising-Simons Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Foundation
Joseph Drown Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
Kindel Gagan
Kite Key Foundation
LA Partnership for Early Childhood
Investment
Latham & Watkins LLP
Liberty Hill Foundation
Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities
Majestic Realty Foundation
Munger Tolles & Olson
Orfalea Foundation
Pritzker Children’s Intiative
RBZ, Inc.
Rose Hills Foundation
Rosenberg Foundation
Southern California Public Radio
Stuart Foundation
Skadden Arps LLP
Telemundo52
The Ahmanson Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation
The Atlas Family Foundation
The Buffett Early Childhood Fund
The California Endowment
The California Wellness Foundation
The Carl and Roberta Deutsch Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
The Ring Foundation
The Streisand Foundation
The Suzanne Nora Johnson and
David G. Johnson Foundation
The Zeughauser Group
Trade Show Temps
United Teachers of Los Angeles
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
W. M. Keck Foundation
Weingart Foundation
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DONORS AND FUNDERS
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, Advancement Project began by bringing $1
billion dollars of education funding to overcrowded urban school districts. I am
excited to share that, in our 15th year, we have been instrumental in securing
another billion of new education funding for our most vulnerable students.
It has been immensely gratifying this year to remember all of the campaigns,
partnerships, and impact that make up our collective journey. We’ve turned
them into a poster – unfold this report to see “15 Reasons to Celebrate 15
Years of Advancement Project”.
Looking back at just the past year, some of our wins include:
• With community partners a Student Need Index was created and convinced
the L.A. Unified School District to guide the allocation of $837 million of
Local Control Funding Formula funds to the communities and schools that
need it most. We’ll be bringing this model to districts across California.
• The budget of a city is not just numbers, it can tell a story – a story of power and relationships.
WeBudgetLA.org made the L.A. City budget understandable and useful for community advocates.
Next year, we’ll partner with advocates to ensure that budget decisions are equitable and meet
the needs of all Angelenos.
• Our Community Research Lab has showed more than 500 community leaders across California
how to use data, research, and maps to tell the story of their neighborhoods’ needs and assets.
Our training programs will boost the skills of even more advocates in 2015.
• This past summer’s tragic police shootings of youth of color focused a spotlight on community-
police relations and the need for law enforcement to find a new way to “serve and protect”.
Across the country our work to transform the Los Angeles Police Department and radically change
community-police relations has served as an inspiration and model. Engaging electeds and
police nationwide continues in 2015.
With your support, we are creating a model for the next generation of civil rights progress. We can’t
know what the next 15 years may bring but whenever we can apply our unique combination of policy
analysis, data and research expertise, and ability to bring together diverse people to set a course
for change, we promise to be there.
Managing Co-Director John Kim
CHAIR
Bill Lann Lee, Esq.
Partner, Lewis, Feinberg,
Lee, Renaker & Jackson
PRESIDENT
Molly Munger
Founding Co-Director,
Advancement Project
SECRETARY/ TREASURER
Stephen R. English
Founding Co-Director,
Advancement Project
Joe Alvarez
Partner, Alvarez Porter Group
Harry Belafonte
Belafonte Enterprises, Inc.
Bonifacio (Bonny) Garcia
Founding Partner, Garcia,
Calderon, Ruiz LLP
Penda D. Hair, Esq.
Co-Director,
Advancement Project
Arlene Holt Baker
Former Executive Vice
President, AFL-CIO
Gerry Hudson
Executive Vice President,
SEIU
Barrett S. Litt
Partner, Litt, Estuar,
& Kitson, LLP
Pam Martinez
Founding Member and
Co-Director, Padres &
Jovenes Unidos
Katherine Peck
Philanthropist
Constance L. Rice
Founding Co-Director,
Advancement Project
Sheila Thomas
Attorney
Gerald Torres, Esq.
Professor of Law,
Cornell University
Tom Unterman
Founding Partner of
Rustic Canyon Partners
Jesse Williams
Actor and Activist
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2014OUR PROGRAM AREAS
EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
EQUITY IN PUBLIC FUNDS
URBAN PEACE
HEALTHY CITY
2013 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF ADVANCEMENT PROJECT
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
TEMPORARILY
UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL
SUPPORT AND REVENUE
Contributions $203,510 $41,305 $244,816
Grants 447,100 3,747,264 4,194,364
Contract revenue 2,516,750 - 2,516,750
In-kind contributions 321,000 - 321,000
Other income 168,582 - 168,582
Net assets released from restrictions 3,232,410 (3,232,410) -
Total Support and Revenue 6,889,353 556,159 7,445,512
NET ASSETS
Beginning of Year 17,564 1,422,714 1,440,278
End of Year $300,440 $1,978,873 $2,279,313
EXPENSES
Program services 5,517,648 - 5,517,648
Management & fundraising 1,088,828 - 1,088,828
Total Expenses 6,606,476 - 6,606,476
Change in Net Assets 282,876 556,159 839,036
ASSETS 2013
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Cash $570,996
Contributions and grants receivables 1,569,904
Pre-paid expenses and other assets 44,049
Investments 554,507
Property and equipment, net 120,769
Total Assets $2,860,225
Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses $580,912
Net assets
Unrestricted 300,440
Temporarily restricted 1,978,873
Total Net Assets 2,279,313
Total Liabilities and Net Assets $2,860,225

2. A D V A N C E M E N T P R O J E C T
1 5 R E A S O N S
to Celebrate 15 Years
2,800
120,000four year olds
Helped win transitional
kindergarten for
LEGEND
WORKING ALONGSIDE COMMUNITIES DATA DRIVEN POLICY SOLUTIONS CREATING INNOVATIVE TOOLS
ADVANCEMENT PROJECT is a next generation, multiracial, civil rights
organization. In California we champion the struggle for greater
equity and opportunity for all, fostering upward mobility in communities
most impacted by economic and racial injustice. We build alliances
and trust, use data-driven policy solutions, create innovative tools,
and work alongside communities to ignite social transformation!
CORE COMPETENCY
2014
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Founding in
1999
“Advancement
Project was built
to be a solutions
factory, to
construct an
America that
works for
everyone.”
Founded by civil rights
lawyers who realized that
litigation wasn’t enough.
BUDGET
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3
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$700,000
Adopted New
Vision and Core Values
Audacity, Capacity-Building,
Collaboration, Equity,
Innovation, and Integrity
2013
2014
BUDGET
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2003
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Founding Co-Directors
Staff
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45
1
$7
MILLION
1,000,000
education dollars to increase
equity for high-need students
$1Billion
Secured
Showed the crisis in day care and preschool
availability post-recession – SaveMySeatLA.org
HealthyCity.org and
other websites now
utilized by more than
56,500
Transformed L.A. Police Department to
embrace relationship-based policing
1960s
LOWEST CRIME RATES SINCE
frontline gang interventionists and
law enforcement to reduce violence
Trained
2,500
advocates trained to use data
to make their case for change
2,800
?
Helped end unfair
impoundment
of cars of
undocumented
immigrants –
LiberenNuestrosAutos.org
CRIME
Innovated community-driven crime reduction
strategy in public housing projects
57%
Formed network of
500early education advocates to
impact statewide policy
Provided ReDrawCA.org for
advocates to draw fair and
representative District lines
Ensured
“hard to count”
populations were
reached during
Census 2010
Trained advocates to understand
and shift government funding
to their neighborhoods –
WeBudgetLA.org
Sets course for post-Rampart
reforms in LAPD gang units
renovated classroom spaces in
CA because of additional funding
annually