THERE, THENHERE, NOW

Sound Investing, Solid ReturnsMoney, rightly positioned and stewarded, can make the difference.

That’s a longstanding credo of the National Urban League whose more than 100 local affiliates, spanning 36 states and the District of Colum-bia, are deeply embedded in communities. We are watching, listening, assessing and creating measurable, systemic change.

Now, more than ever before in this institution’s 101-year-old history, economic empowerment is the end game goal. Whether focusing on education, health care, housing or jobs—our four foundational areas of advocacy and action—all League initiatives aim toward the kind of economic uplift that results in a college degree, a clean bill of health, a roof over one’s head, paychecks in the bank.

As economic first-responders, the League transformed the lives of more than 2.1 million individuals during the last year alone, amid an unrelent-ing recession.

We helped people like semi-retired Rev. Larry McCullough stave off foreclosure.

We provided career coaching for dual-degreed, 30-something Sandra Bethea, who’d been unemployed or grossly underemployed for four years before an intensive League workshop helped her return to mean-ingful, full-time work.

Through loans and technical assistance provided by the League, 6,000 job-generating small businesses rang up $21 million in new contracts.

Those are among the inspired profiles, strides and successes in this brochure.

My life’s work in government, the private and nonprofit sectors has been devoted to helping create those kinds of real-life stories, an equality of opportunity, a more level playing field. We’ve made much progress, yes. But the urgency and imperative of the National Urban League’s mission remains.

I embrace that ennobling, enduring mission. And I’m acutely aware of what today’s dollar, wisely invested, can yield.

Hopeful regards,

Marc Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League

1

GOAL 4 HEALTH CARE 20

GOAL 2 JOBS 8

GOAL 3 HOUSING 14

GOAL 1 EDUCATION 4

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT 1

LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN 2

EVENTS 24

VOLUNTEERS Inside Back Cover

“I AM EMPOWERED:” A Declaration and a Movement

The National Urban League’s year-old I Am Empowered campaign aims by 2025 to exponentially multiply the number of people get-ting a good education, habitable housing, adequate health-care and employment paying a life-sustaining wage.

The campaign signals a ramping up of the League’s pe-existing Signature Programs, which bear the League’s distinct imprint, and a second tier of complementary initiatives that, taken together, are moving the under-served and under-resourced into the American mainstream.

Supporting those scalable, capacity-building projects raises the profiles of our institutional and individual funders. Bent on creat-ing a society in which fewer people languish on the margins, our funders underwrite the League’s line-up of programming in:

Education and Youth Development

Entrepreneurship, Business Development and Workforce Development

Health and Quality of Life

Housing and Community Development

“There’s a growing recognition that you cannot create change in isolation. Because there is an inter-relationship of issues and prob-lems, change demands a strategic, critical mass of action,” says Donald E. Bowen, the League’s senior vice president for programs.

“Where there’s unemployment, a dearth of vibrant businesses, blighted and abandoned property, people suffer on a deeply vis-ceral level. That’s some of what the Urban League is battling.”

Those are not just anecdotal observations. They are part of the empirical facts and analysis buttressing the League’s blueprint for change.

Why I’m a Believer and a BackerIf we had a non-stop stream of money, each of the National Urban League’s proven projects would be fully functional at every one of our locaaffiliates. The need for those direct ser-vices is that great.

Our donors recognize the infinite value of what we do to create a more equitable society. Their buy-in is rooted in an ironclad belief that we are, as the adage goes, our brother’s keeper. And on a quite practical level, our supporters un-derstand that any society is best served by extending basic opportunity to every citizen.

I’m sold on the League’s innovative approach to bringing the marginalized into the mainstream, drawing out their often untapped talents, sharpening their sense of accountability for themselves, their families and communities, and elevating them to higher heights.

I’m equally sold on how the League has coalesced with and challenged people of financial means to make a difference in the lives of our less resourced neighbors. That stokes my drive to help raise funds sufficient for implementing our results-oriented programs at all of our local affiliates.

I recognize that the League’s many life-transforming, commu-nity-reviving endeavors are immensely worthy of support. As we enlarge our network of underwriters, I trust that you share that understanding.

Sincerely,

John D. Hofmeister, Chairman of the Board, National Urban League

2 3

EDUCATIONGOAL:

1R E A D A N D R I S E

P R O J E C T R E A D Y

Y O U T H S U M M I T

For College, Career and Life, Giving Students a Competitive Edge

In addition to lagging in academic achievement, too many under-served youth lack exposure to aspirational places, people and ideas.

But the National Urban League’s myriad school-based, after-school and week-end programs and its annual Youth Summit, hosted on a rotation of college campuses, give high school students entrée to whole worlds of possibility.

“What we do,” says Hal Smith, Ed.D., League Vice President for Education & Youth and Health & Quality of Life, “is fill in the gap, providing access to high quality teaching and support, and high quality partners. Science museums, colleges and universities ...”

The League’s list of college- and career-readiness partners and programs goes on. Digital Connectors places high school and college students on the frontline of efforts to extend digital bandwidth in communities still without Internet ac-cess, while perfecting their knowledge of IT. The executive exchange program pairs college kids with corporate pacesetters. The panoply of other activities strictly target academic curricula, SATs and other aspects of making the grade.

Ensuring that students are up to par is what it’s about.

“In this country, today, you can have different kids in different high schools in the same city. One has a physics class with full-blown scientific experiments, laboratories, field trips. In the other, kids are learning science from a textbook,” Smith says. “This is a question of equitable access. For young people who’ve not envisioned how to make their way from here to there, we’re showing them a clear path forward.”

Every American Child Ready for

College work and life.

4 5

Early Childhood Reading is the Building Block for Life-long Learning

Reading proficiency determines one’s success in all other academic study and in one’s chosen career. National Urban League Read and Rise project staffers and a committed coterie of volunteers are mobiliz-ing parents—a child’s first and most influential teacher—to stoke their offspring’s love of reading and comprehension of what they read by:

Raising the quality and quantity of books in home libraries.

Providing how-to guides and other supporting material.

Conducting community workshops.

Continually assessing parental efforts in reading, and children’s reading progress.

Annual Summit Enlarges Leadership Capacity of Youth and Youth Leaders

Confident but not arrogant. Calm amid chaos. Goal-centered. Diplomatic. Disciplined. Resolute.

Those are some of the leadership qualities espoused and modeled for—and by—roughly 400 high school students tapped to attend the National Urban League Youth Summit. Facilitated and keynot-ed by a who’s who of educators, youth activists and developers, the 22-year-old annual confab punctuates and reinforces the year-round leadership programming of the League’s local affiliates.

The Summit slate includes:

A college fair, accommodations in college dorms and an overall introduction to campus life.

Capacity-building and professional development for Urban League youth strategists from both the national and local offices.

Youth-led town hall-type meetings on youth concerns and broader community concerns.

A full day of community service.

The Project Ready Case Competition. Judged by pros, present-ed to a youth audience via “live action commercial” and to a national audience via web-stream, the contest requires students to assess their academic abilities and performance and college-readiness by designing an implementable program that builds vital assets and skills in their peers.

Backed by Best Practices in Youth Development, Program Does College Prep

Making the grade academically, while being socially and culturally, if not globally, engaged is what gets kids into a good college these days.

For each of the more than 1,300 9th- through 12th-graders enlisting yearly for Project Ready, the National Urban League drafts an Indi-vidual College Development Plan (ICDP) that delineates their expect-ed achievements and expressed interests in school and community, then closely tracks their trajectory in those areas.

The Project Ready road map leads to:

Tutoring and other academic supports afterschool, during summer break and, in some cities, during the school day, too.

College and career knowledge, mentorship and multi-campus college tours.

Honing of critical life skills, aptitudes and attitudes.

Continually expanded and updated curricula.

Cultural and social activities and enrichment.

National Urban League Strategic Partners…

Build Local Capacity

6 7

JOBSGOAL:

2E N T R E P R E N E U R S H I P C E N T E R

E M P O W E R M E N T F U N D

J O B S N E T W O R K

Refining Resumes, Landing Jobs and Targeting Bankable Businesses

The National Urban League’s multi-pronged formula for expanding workplace opportunity involves connecting the highly employable with the right employers, and supplying established and start-up businesses with everything from techni-cal assistance to loans to necessary introductions to financiers clear on what merits their capital investment.

“Given the current state of the U.S, economy, more and more people view en-trepreneurship as a route to self-employment and growing their businesses on such a scale that they can provide jobs in their communities,” says Terry Clark, the League’s Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Business Development.

That division is just one tool in the League’s arsenal. In 2010, it provided roughly 11,000 hours of business counseling and 11,300 hours of training services to 5,938 entrepreneurs who, in turn, won approximately $20 million in new bonding, new contracts and financing.

Likewise, League workforce programs snagged almost 2,100 job placements for both pedigreed professionals and workers leaving the welfare rolls. A whopping 25,000 job-seekers signed up for those programs in 2010, representing a 26 percent spike above the 2009 tally.

Natural Pest Control Co. of Camden, N.J. has received its share of employment queries. Michael Sands, the 30-year-old firm’s president, is relying on associa-tion with the League to fill his own upcoming openings. Since joining the En-trepreneurship Center run by the Urban League affiliate in nearby Philadelphia, Pa., Sands says, “Our growth is beyond expectation. Now, we have a far better understanding of how to manage a modern business.”

The League affiliate paired Sands with a marketing firm that, among other measures, rebuilt Natural Pest Control’s website. The League linked Sands with executives from large corporations. “All of this,” he says, “has increased our company’s exposure and allowed us the opportunity to bid on several new projects. We are extremely grateful for all of the Urban League’s effort and continued assistance.”

Every American has access to jobs with

a living wage and good benefits.

8 9

Entrepreneurship Program Drives Profit, Jobs, Business Longevity

The National Urban League’s 6-year-old Entrepreneurship Cen-ter Program (ECP) increases the market share, profitability and sustainability of emerging and existing businesses, including those whose against-the-odds successes result from their own sheer grit and ingenuity.

The League’s nine affiliate-run Entrepreneurship Centers aim to transform thus far under-financed businesses in under-resourced communities into long-term, high-growth sector businesses that pay exceedingly more than subsistence wages to employable area residents.

The ECP:

Cements entrepreneurs’ viability and relationship with an array of bankers and other investors in the League’s network.

Expands access to capital, reducing entrepreneurs’ reliance on personal savings/debt and family loans to keep their businesses afloat.

Evaluates program participants’ business acumen and management skill.

Matches entrepreneurs with seasoned executive mentors and outside skills-building resources that provide technical assis-tance in idea and business plan development; operations man-agement; state-of-the-art marketing and branding; procurement and financing.

Monthly group training sessions on topics that refine entrepre-neurial and management skills, while providing information on new markets and new financing options.

Urban Empowerment Fund Joins Nation-wide Financing Network

With small businesses now employing more than half the nation’s workers, the National Urban League’s Ur-ban Empowerment Fund, one in a nationwide network of Community Development Financing Institutions, extends loans to small businesses, affordable housing developers and nonprofit community facilities in under-served and disinvested neighborhoods.

The outgrowth of an in-depth market analysis and administered by what presently are the League’s nine Entrepreneurship Centers, the Fund’s primary objec-tives are to:

Offer flexible business financing through a range of loan options.

Provide opportunities for investors and grantors to achieve their social responsibility goals.

Support job creation and retention in under- resourced communities.

Generate income that makes the Fund more self-sustaining and self-sufficient.

National Urban League Strategic Partners…

Heighten Their Credibility in Disinvested Communities

10 11

League’s “Career Convergence” Puts Jobless Back on the Payroll

What Sandra Bethea didn’t anticipate after trading her native California for Georgia in 2007 is that she’d exhaust her prudent savings before landing a steady job.

By the time she signed up for career coaching at the National Urban League’s Atlanta affiliate, she’d gone three years without full-time employment. From her closest kin she’d secreted the facts of her newfound poverty, including not being able to pay for her daughter’s lunch in the elementary school cafeteria.

“Being out of work was more discouraging than I can describe in words. It was very, new for me, and very uncomfortable,” says Bethea, 38, a divorcee who’d built a ca-reer, in part, by raising millions of dollars for nonprofit organizations and government agencies. “I’d been in a position professionally where I’d provided help for people in need. Never—ever—did I think I’d someday require that same kind of assistance.”

With her sterling resume and two college degrees, Bethea is one in a relative army of the academically and professionally pedigreed who’ve coming knocking on the Atlanta affiliate’s door lately. “Typically, by the times folks on that level reach the Urban League, they’ve tried the employment agencies, the state labor department,

a whole range of resources that didn’t provide the involvement they needed,” says Rashid Brown, the career coach who guided Bethea. “They’re worn out, weary, discouraged, with no idea how things got to this point.”

The League helps job-seekers regain focus, clarity and optimism, adds Brown, who spent 17 years in corporate recruitment, leadership training and human resources before joining the League in 2010. “We don’t just do job-readiness training,” says Brown, who aids the highly skilled and those less so. “We help them self-assess, to discover how their skills connect in the working world, to analyze industries, to research which markets are growing or phasing out. We call it career convergence.”

“They energized me,” says Bethea, who, after four years without a steady paycheck, got hired in April 2011 as a grant specialist with Atlanta’s public transit system.

“Often, the assumption is that if you’re not working, you’re not a go-getter or you’re not looking hard enough,” she adds. “But the Urban League staff was quick to remind me that I have value, and that I simply needed to reposition myself. Most of all, they gave me encouragement. I cannot overestimate how crucial that was.”

“Jobs Network” Promotes Workplace Diversity, Provides Paychecks

Before terms like “diversity” and “inclusion” became part of the workaday vernacular, the National Urban League was helping put-ting Americans to work and helping employers assemble a work-force that fully reflects America.

Key to that campaign is the League’s Jobs Network whose cen-terpiece, www.urbanleaguejobsnetwork.com, is a cutting-edge online roster of more than 200,000 highly educated and proven professionals. It lists the resumes of African, Asian, Latino and Native Americans, women, LGBTQI, differently-abled and mature workers, people in fields ranging from sales to software develop-ment, health care to human resources, engineering to education and more.

www.urbanleaguejobsnetwork.com:

Draws more than 1 million monthly page views from job-posters and job-seekers.

Draws more than 100,000 first-time visitors monthly.

Gives prospective employees visibility with leaders of Fortune 500 and other companies.

Posts job alerts, career and professional tips and resources through Twitter and Facebook.

National Urban League Strategic Partners…

Leverage Their Experience and Expertise

12 13

HOUSINGGOAL:

3F I N A N C I A L L I T E R A C Y

R E S T O R E O U R H O M E S

S U C C E S S S T O RY

Stable Housing Promotes Stable Communities

Whether homeowners or renters, everyone deserves living quarters in good repair and communities dotted with decent housing.

The Comprehensive Housing Counseling, Foreclosure Prevention and Finan-cial Literacy signature programs of the National Urban League’s Housing and Community Development division adhere to those broad-based principles. The programs are founded the reality that homeownership—for those who’ve made an informed decision about when to take that step—is a sound means of accu-mulating wealth and eventually passing that wealth on.

“Residing in a community where the housing stock is valued, well-maintained also has a kind of ripple effect,” says Cy Richardson, Ph.D., Vice President of Housing and Community Development. “It shows that people have a meaningful and sustained stake in the welfare of their community, and that accomplishes a lot in terms of setting the right tone for a community’s overall well-being and development. Our programs make sure that, when it comes to housing, neither renters nor homeowners are in distress.”

Every American lives in safe, decent, affordable

and energy efficient housing on fair terms.

14 15

Financial Literacy as a First Step

Beyond teaching the bare bones of budgeting, the National Urban League’s spot-on financial education curriculum reshapes people’s at-titudes and behavior toward money.

Annually, the League underwrites courses at accredited institutions for some among the 25,000 individual and small-business clients being served, thus far, by 22 local affiliates. Our one-on-one counseling, group seminars, multimedia and other programming provides instruction in:

“Restore Our Homes” Keeps Families and Communities Intact

Home foreclosures drive up homelessness and diminish property values of entire communities. Cost-free Homeownership Centers operating at 21 local affiliates of the National Urban League are attacking the scourge of foreclosure by:

Negotiating individual, workout agreements that keep borrowers in their homes and take them out of delinquency.

Providing HUD-certified loss-mitigation counseling that identifies default-fuel-ing home loan products, repairs bad credit, wards off faulty refinancing deals and predatory lenders.

Suing predatory lenders.

Pushing for laws banning corrupt lending practices.

Conducting fair housing advocacy.

Engaging delinquent mortgage borrowers early on so they never reach foreclosure.

Taking the sting and embarrassment out of asking for help.

Since Restore Our Home’s 2009 launch, the program has enabled 40,000 of its 100,000 clients—people at least 60 days behind on their house notes—to dodge foreclosure and get a manageable monthly payment.

Cash-flow management, saving and investing.

How to get and keep a good credit score.

Finding capital for entrepreneurial enterprises.

Retirement and end-of-life planning.

The merit and responsibility of owning a home.

The folly of being overly indebted.

Mindless spending versus conscientious con-sumerism—and the psychology behind both.

The interplay between government financial policy and people’s pocketbooks.

National Urban League Strategic Partners…

Expand Their Reach Amongst the Underserved

16 17

After Lengthy Back-and-Forth, Home-owner Gets Relief

Shortly before settling into what he presumed would be an easy retirement, Rev. Larry McCullough got some jolting news about his personal finances: Given his soon-coming City of Atlanta pension, the monthly Social Security check he’d been count-ing on to help pay his mortgage was being cut by roughly a third.

“I didn’t anticipate that at all,” says McCullough, 68, who spent his last 11 working years as a bailiff for that Georgia municipality. “You try to make sure you get your figures right before you retire. I don’t know the rationale behind the Social Security cut. I do know that sometimes these things happen. And ap-pealing the decision does not help.”

So, he went on the offense. “When you first smell smoke, you call the fire department. You don’t wait until your house is burning down,” says McCullough, who, with his wife, purchased their three-bedroom, two-bath dream home seven years ago.

Before they were even a single payment behind—but clear, by mid-2009, that they were headed for trouble—McCullough phoned the Urban League’s local affiliate.

“The person answering the phone sent me straight to the lady who’s over the housing committee. They showed me what to do.”

League counselors steered him through the time-consuming dot-and-tittle of applying for home loan modification, a lowered monthly payment encouraged by the federal government but far from guaranteed by mortgagers.

“Naturally, there was a bunch of stress,” says McCullough, an assistant church pastor, who’d previously been a gospel radio disc jockey and record label promoter.

“It’s a thick, thick document. So many forms to fill out, so much information to give. Then, when you send it in, they come back at you with more questions.”

The back-and-forth lasted 14 months. But he and his wife were added to what, thus far, has been a frac-tion of cash-strapped homeowners getting readjusted mortgages that they can manage.

“So many people are affected by what’s going,” says McCullough, who supplements his pension and Social Security by working as a hotel concierge. “I’ve always been the kind of person to work two jobs. I’m blessed to be able to do that. I’m blessed that the people at the Urban League kept us from feeling so intimidated and giving up. When other people tell they’re having problems, I tell them what happened to me. I refer them to the Urban League.”

“When you first smell smoke, you call the fire department. You don’t wait until your house is burning down.”Rev. Larry McCullough

18 19

HEALTH CARE

GOAL:

4C O M M U N I T Y H E A LT H W O R K E R S

WA L G R E E N ’ S W E L L N E S S

C D C C O L L A B O R AT I V E

Providing Access, Taking a Stand on Health Care

With their meager wages barely keeping a roof over their heads, food on the table and other basic necessities met, tens of millions of the working poor have no job-based health coverage or cannot afford to shoulder their share of health-care premiums. Compounding that problem are impending cuts to Medicaid that likely will weaken health-care access for the poorest among the poor who depend on that program, jointly funded by increasingly cash-strapped federal and state governments.

Diminished government funding notwithstanding, the National Urban League, for a host of reasons, urges lawmakers to make health care a national priority:

Covering the uninsured will reduce the national debt over the long haul, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Health care is one in a handful sectors that has been producing jobs during the Great Recession.

The domino effect of untreated illness and lack of preventative care means time off work or an inability to get work at all, thrusting whole families and communities into chronic poverty and its attendant troubles.

The League isn’t just debating the issue. It is walking the talk, training and dis-patching health professionals who directly serve the under-served in their com-munities; building partnerships such as the one we have with drug-store chain Walgreen’s that monitors and prevent diseases; referring the under-resourced to available health-care resources.

Amongst our biggest achievements is measurably empowering people to be their own first line of defense, altering eating habits, stepping up their exercise routines and modeling that good behavior for others.

Every American has access to quality and

affordable health care solutions.

20 21

Community Health Workers On Frontlines of War Against Disease

The poor and working classes are disproportionately hard hit by preventable sickness, disease-related death, lack of health insur-ance and access to adequate, quality health-care.

The National Urban League is collaborating with Morehouse School of Medicine and the Satcher Institute of Public Health, two of the League’s strategic partners, to train a small army of community health workers and to lobby, nationally, for more public policy sup-port for the community health worker model.

Frequently hailing from the communities to which they are assigned, and often already established as health professionals, the local affiliate-based workers:

Improve clients’ know-how about health and health-care systems

Coach clients through their personal action plans for optimum health.

Bridge the health-care access gap for those who cannot readily get to a doctor or hospital, and who face other medical barriers.

Offer services in neighborhoods, at convenient locations.

Advocate and provide social supports for clients.

“Walgreen’s Wellness Tour” Detects Disease, Expands Health-care Access

Preventative health care saves lives and curbs medical costs.

In strategic partnership with the National Urban League, Walgreen’s Well-ness Tour has been helping thousands with limited or no health insurance or medical access to monitor their well-being. For five years ending in December 2011, the national drug store chain has:

Hosted community health fairs.

Done free testing of cholesterol and glucose levels, blood pressure and bone density and measures waist circumference.

National Urban League Strategic Partners…

Build Their Nationwide Brand

Millions Mobilized in CDC Collaborative Fighting AIDS/HIV

Collaborating with the federal Centers for Disease Control, the Act Against Aids Leadership Initiative involves the Nation-al Urban League and 18 other leading, national organizations that are attacking HIV/AIDS, especially among the urban poor whose rates of new infection continue to outpace that of other groups.

The collaborative has:

Hosted almost 900 HIV/AIDS testing, awareness, training and other outreach events, reaching more than 100,000 people.

Engaged more than 320 local chapters and affiliates in HIV/AIDS prevention.

Reached millions more through advertising, media and such programs as the League’s Walgreen’s Wellness Tour.

22 23

Volunteers Keep This Engine Revved and Running

The passion, philanthropy, skill and insight of our volunteers are at the heart of the National Urban League’s work.

Interest in that work is soaring among the 21- to 40-year-olds who comprise what now are 56 National Urban League Young Pro-fessionals chapters. Giving back is crucial for them. As they show up to take part in the League’s on-the-ground community endeav-ors, they also are recruiting new members and spreading a timely message about the League’s present tactics to address today’s multifarious social issues and needs.

That same ethos guides the almost 60-year old National Council of Urban League Guilds, a coast-to-coast contingency com-prised of 85 chapters. Contributing thousands of volunteer hours each year, Guild members also raise funds for key League events, assist local affiliates with special projects, and enlist as profes-sional mentors, afterschool tutors and in other substantial roles.

Also of vital importance are the all-volunteer Boards of Directors of League Local Affiliates. Their concentrated efforts ensure that the affiliates are continually assessing the needs and issues of their communities; properly executing their fiscal and fiduciary duties and responsibilities; raising revenue; employing affiliate executives and staff with a stellar track record in nonprofit leader-ship, management, advocacy, policy, research and best practices; and remaining wholly committed to the National Urban League’s 21st Century mission and model.

Annual Events Reaffirm the Mission, Recharge Attendees

Named for the pioneering former executive director who increased the size of National Urban League’s budget tenfold, the size of its professional staff fourfold and led a 50 percent jump in the number of local affiliates, the annual Whitney M. Young Leadership Conference keeps the momentum going.

One of several League-sponsored yearly events, its roundtable discussions, world-class presentations on organizational and leadership development, hands-on workshops and networking opportunities for nonprofit executives and program managers are all about building capacity and reaffirming the League’s mission.

That mission is to address the pressing concerns. So, the League framed its Annual Conference, in July 2011, as the Jobs Rebuild America Summit. Engaging on the bread-and-butter matter of employment, its economists, corporate and other presenters offered forecasts on the economy’s future and strategies on how employable people can reposition themselves for that shift. Moreover, the Summit launched the League’s 12-Point Plan for Putting America Back to Work.

Likewise, last year’s annual Economic Empowerment Tour provided on-the-scene housing counseling, including foreclosure prevention, career coaching and job interviews that yielded immediate job offers.

That kind of proactivity, undergirded by spot-on analysis, is a mainstay of the League’s annual Legislative Policy Conference, which parses the federal laws, rules and policies affecting the lives of all Americans, with particular focus on the under-served. Key politicians and other power brokers attend and populate panels at the Washington, D.C. conference, which charts the League’s course of national legislative advocacy and action.

The League is gratified by that work, and grateful for others who, in their own way, are involved in the same. The League’s yearly Equal Opportunity Day Awards Dinner spotlights the corporate and small business innovators, com-munity activists and others whose everyday deeds are creating a hoped-for and much better world.

24

National Urban League120 Wall Street, 8th FloorNew York, NY 10005Tel: 212.558-5300www.nul.orgwww.iamempowered.com

National Urban League Policy Institute 1101 Connecticut Ave NW, suite 810Washington, DC 20036Tel 2028981604 ext 24