NAACP AFFIRMING AMERICA’S PROMISE 2011 ANNUAL REPORT

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4 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report Table of Contents

2 Introduction: Affirming America’s Promise 30 Legal Advocacy

4 Letter from the Chairman of the Board 32 Hollywood Bureau

6 Letter from the President & CEO 34 Washington Bureau

8 Letter from the Chairman of the Special Contribution Fund Special Events

10 Troy Davis: Touching All Lives 36 NAACP Annual Convention

12 Game Changers 37 Leadership 500

38 Image Awards Advocacy and Issue Areas 39 Religious Leaders Summit 14 Health

16 Education Business Operations

Our Mission 18 Voting Rights 40 Financials

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 20 Criminal Justice 42 Our Donors is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. 22 Climate Justice 48 Board of Directors

24 Economic Opportunity 49 Board of Trustees Vision Statement 50 NAACP Staff operations The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored 52 NAACP Regions People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without 26 Field Operations and Membership discrimination based on race. 28 Youth Programs

NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 1 By standing united to advance our common opportunities, the African American community and other Introduction communities of color continue to Affirming work to overcome the obstacles America’s Promise that hinder determination.

he unspoken promise of the United States is unified work is affirming America’s promise. By that all it takes to succeed is hard work and remaining united, strong, and optimistic — and determination. This is the land of democ- yes, through hard work and determination — we are racy, where we are all supposed to start on a securing the promises of America. On these pages you level playing field, and advantages of ances- will see our work to achieve: Ttry or political affiliation are not supposed to matter. • Sound policies that help families get and stay healthy For many communities of color, the promise of • Quality education (from pre-k through college) so America has gone unfulfilled — opportunities limited that all children have a fair chance to advance and progress slow. But the power of collective action • Voting rights that ensure a representative democracy will not be denied. By standing united to advance • Equal treatment under the law, regardless of skin our common opportunities, the African American color community and other communities of color continue • Clean land, air, and water — even in communities to work to overcome the obstacles that hinder of poverty determination. • Economic opportunity and jobs that pay a living Through its work, the NAACP is insisting that just as wage the skills and strengths of these communities helped • A strong government that acts in our best interest to make America great, the promise of America for It’s time for the promises of this nation to be these communities must be fulfilled, too. affirmed for its entire people. Working together, we In this report, you will see how our collaborative, will succeed.

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n 2011, the NAACP identified key growth opportunities in a process that not which 21 NAACP units — from Northeast Queens, NY to Bremerton, Washington only focuses our resources but helps define our progress in the months and years — took part in trainings on how to raise funds, how to use their resources, and to come. As we refined our strategies and shored up our strengths, we enabled how to engage the voting public. The pilot phase was a success, and the Board the year’s successes — and also laid the path for even greater influence and ef- voted to open the Collective Action Fund to all NAACP units — laying the critical fectiveness in the future. foundation for the 2012 election efforts. IThroughout its history, the NAACP has campaigned against tactics designed to We are grateful for your past support and look forward to having you with us as stop people from casting free ballots. The work to assure black citizens the right to we proceed on this vital journey. vote has followed a tortuous path over the years, including loss of life, reprisals, in- timidation, beatings and various other actions. And finally, largely through NAACP Sincerely, campaigns and leadership, the 1964 Voting Rights Act was passed. However, as we approach the 2012 national election, we find an increasing num- bers of states establising rules which will limit the ability of a significant number As we refined our strategies and shored of our citizens to register and vote. So, we must remain vigilant and redouble our up our strengths, we not only empowered efforts to prevent the denial of voting rights and to ensure citizen involvement. Roslyn M. Brock We know that the heart and soul of our organization lies in the work on the Chairman the year’s victories — we also laid the ground, and so we continue to identify ways to empower and support our local NAACP National Board of Directors path for even greater influence and units to achieve significant and measurable progress. In 2011, we launched a Collective Action Fund with the Tides Foundation to effectiveness in the future. help our state conferences access funds and resources to engage in state-level advocacy. The Collective Action Fund went through a pilot phase during 2011 in

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t the NAACP, our strength comes I am privileged to meet and to speak with people President & CEO from our unity — and in 2011, from all walks of life and from across this nation. I our unity remained strong. see the desire we all share for a better tomorrow. We In 2011, our membership con- all seek justice and equality. We want our children to I see the desire we tinued to grow and to become inherit a better world than we did. We hope we can Amore active, while our online activists more find common ground and find reason to erase hatred all share for a better than doubled, to an impressive 600,000 and bigotry. tomorrow. We all seek participants — marking the third year in a Thank you for your continuing support in our row of steady growth, proving that people struggle to affirm America’s promise and to look ahead justice and equality. We recognize the power of common action and at what could and must be. want our children to inherit participation. As a result of this strong support from al- a better world than we did. lies across the nation, we saw the lowest levels of public support for the death penalty since 1972, a growing awareness of the heinous attack on voting rights, and the release of agenda-setting reports on health and criminal justice that helped to empower NAACP activists to Benjamin Todd Jealous win victories in tough states. President & CEO

6 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 7 …the SCF board has been able to secure support that continues to rise with gratifying steadiness — with 2011 reflecting a 54% increase over funds raised by SCF in 2010.

Chairman, Special Contributions Fund

his year, the NAACP unfurled the banner proclaiming its theme, “Affirming plus our dedicated and skilled staff as we forge ahead into 2012, supported by the America’s Promise.” This theme is based on our mission “To ensure the po- key fundraising work of our SCF Board of Trustees. We are grateful for your support litical, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and and ask you to be a continuing part of our unremitting campaign. eliminate racial hatred and discrimination.” We must successfully imple- ment the vital programs in our mission, to affirm America’s promise. Sincerely, TResources must be available to underwrite the costs of carrying on our programs across this nation. The NAACP Special Contribution Fund (SCF), governed by a Board of Trustees is committed to helping to secure the funds and resources necessary to sup- port the mission of the NAACP. Each year, through individual and collaborative efforts, the SCF board has been able to secure support that continues to rise with gratifying Eugene J. Duffy steadiness — with 2011 reflecting a 54% increase over funds raised by SCF in 2010. Chairman You will note that this 2011 Annual Report records the effective work of our units, NAACP Special Contribution Fund Board of Trustees

8 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 9 We mourn his death but are proud of the response of the people of this nation. The desire to speak out, to demand justice, is a reminder of why we fight.

on the ground in Georgia, our new media and com- munications teams employed aggressive communica- tion and social media outreach, and we successfully recruited high level spokespersons and unlikely allies to weigh in on the campaign. People across America wanted to express their out- rage and find ways to help — and NAACP’s new media efforts provided that outlet. The NAACP listserv gath- ered more than a quarter million petitions delivered to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. The NAACP’s #TooMuchDoubt campaign on Twitter was so powerful it garnered profiles in USA Today and the influential tech blog Mashable. It was the second Troy Davis most-tweeted story of 2011, peaking at 7,671 tweets per second on September 20, the day before Troy Davis was Touching All Lives executed. One social media firm estimated that the earned-media value of the hashtag between September n the evening of August 19, 1989, Savannah, A Community’s Support 19 and 22 alone was $3.6 million. Georgia police officer Mark MacPhail was Many of NAACP’s programs played a critical part On September 21, Chairman Brock and President worked to pool the collective strength of our commu- shot and killed. Troy Davis was arrested, in the Troy Davis case. A multi-departmental team Jealous led NAACP members and allies in a rally and nity to fight for justice and fairness. The case of Troy convicted of the killing, and sentenced to of staff including the Criminal Justice Program, Field in protest of the execution in Jackson, GA. These Davis was tragic; the death penalty should never be the death penalty based on the testimony of Operations, Stakeholder Relations, Communications events galvanized worldwide attention as millions of invoked — especially if there is as much as a shadow of Oseven witnesses and two who said Davis had confessed and New Media, led by President Benjamin Todd supporters weighed in and followed these events. a doubt. to them. Jealous, Chairman Roslyn M. Brock and NAACP Following the execution, NAACP worked with several And yet if there is a glimpse of hope in an appalling Over the 20 years between his sentencing and his Georgia State Leaders, including Georgia State other groups to assist the Davis family in organizing a situation, it is that the voices of so many were heard execution, questions arose about the legitimacy of his President, Edward Dubose, worked to amplify NAACP funeral and celebration of Troy Davis’ life that served in the defense of a man with no political power, no conviction. Seven of the nine witnesses recanted or efforts on the Troy Davis “Too Much Doubt” campaign. as a national call to both remember his legacy and great wealth, no position of standing. Across America, changed their testimony; several implicated another Working with our allies and the Georgia State commit to fighting for the end of the death penalty in people saw the injustice of the Troy Davis case — and man in the murder. Evidence that the other man had Conference, the NAACP launched a national campaign the United States. Members of the NAACP family were they spoke out in opposition. confessed was excluded as hearsay. that included a combination of strategic communica- asked to serve as honorary pallbearers, joining a list of We mourn his death but are proud of the response His conviction was upheld. On September 21, 2011, tions, direct appeals to the Georgia Board of Pardons international leaders, dignitaries, and celebrities. More of the people of this nation. The desire to speak out, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia by and Parole and community organizing in an effort to than three thousand people attended the funeral and to demand justice, is a reminder of why we fight: lethal injection. Davis maintained his innocence up to save Troy Davis’ life. millions more watched the services online. Most people in our nation want a better and more his execution. During the campaign, staff was dispatched to work Since the founding of the NAACP in 1902, we have just world.

10 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 11 2011 marked the third year in a row of steady growth ONLINE ACTIVISTS MEMBERSHIP SALES GROWTH INDIVIDUAL DONORS 105,000 — but our current 516,000 success must

never be allowed 174,200 24% 2011 to diminish our 3% 2010 willingness to see 16,422 5% new opportunities 2009

2007 2007 and reallocate our 2011 2011 precious resources. Game Changers

he NAACP is strongly positioned to and its organizational capacity. movement, and energizing the nation through 3. Education advance our programs and issues in the The Game Changers offer a new call to action for activism, civic engagement, and mobilizing voters at Every child will receive a free, high quality, world today For the third year in a row, the 21st Century, providing a powerful successor every level of the political process. equitably-funded, public pre-K and K-12 education 2011 marked a year of steady growth — but to the original century-old call upon which the followed by diverse opportunities for accessible, our current success must never be allowed Association was founded. The organizational Game Changers affordable vocational or university education. Tto diminish our willingness to see new opportunities strategy carries the potential to attract new members 1. Public Safety and Criminal Justice and reallocate our precious resources. and supporters, to reinvigorate the membership, Disproportionate incarceration, racially 4. Health So, in 2011, the NAACP undertook an extensive to mobilize activists and to raise the stature and motivated policing strategies, and racially biased, Everyone will have equal access to affordable, and high-level strategic planning program that visibility of the oldest civil rights organization in discriminatory, and mandatory minimum high-quality health care and racially disparate identified five“Game Changers” — elements that America, positioning it firmly as the leading voice sentencing will end. Incarceration will be greatly health outcomes will end. will shape our world in the months and years to on civil rights, and the vehicle for real and lasting reduced and our communities will be safer. The come. These are the areas where the NAACP can have change. death penalty will be abolished at the state and 5. Voting Rights and Political Representation a substantial impact; these are the issues that deserve The results of this strategic planning process are as federal level, as well as in the military. Every American will have free, open, equal, and immediate and thoughtful attention in order to fulfill follows, and you will see the roots of all these Game protected access to the vote and fair representation a vision of a society in which all individuals have Changers in this annual report: 2. Economic Stability at all levels of the political process. By protecting equal rights without discrimination based on race. Every person will have equal opportunity to democracy, enhancing equity, and increasing The process, guided by a Strategic Planning Steering Organizational Strategy achieve economic success, sustainability, and democratic participation and civic engagement, Committee comprised of Board members and staff, To educate, mobilize, and grow our membership, financial security. African will be proportionally elected to the SPSC defined the unique strengths of the NAACP constituting a powerful grassroots civil rights political office.

12 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 13 No organization can promise good health to its members — but by working Advocacy and Issue Areas together, we can remove some of the obstacles that make good health a Health Program distant dream for far too many. York, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. community awareness designed to address healthy eating — The Health Program in partnership with Harvard and physical activity. A key partnership formed in 2011 University Center for AIDS Research and others hosted was with the Black Coaches and Administrators (BCA), the second phase of the Forgotten Epidemic: “Our a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is “to Collective Responsibility, Response and Solutions to the foster the growth and development of ethnic minorities Black AIDS Crisis in America.” The two-day health ad- at all levels of sports. This partnership was formed to help vocacy and education summit was held in Washington address physical activity in schools and to advocate for DC with members of Congress attending. On the final safe green spaces where young people can play. day of the summit, 45 attendees visited legislators The NAACP also continued to leverage its 1,200 branch- on Capitol Hill to discuss the Patient Affordable Care es in its advocacy efforts to encourage healthy living. In Act, the AIDS Drug Assistance Program crisis and the 2011, the NAACP released its National Childhood Obesity NAACP’s HIV/AIDS strategy. Advocacy Manual, an interactive, downloadable toolkit to — The Health Department also awarded seven mini- support local efforts in addressing childhood obesity. The grants of $1,000 each to seven NAACP units who pro- Manual offers tools to assist NAACP units and grassroots posed activities for 2011 World AIDS Day. The grantees groups in promoting healthy behavior among African were Vancouver, WA; Boston, MA; Fort Wayne/Allen American families; identifies best practices in the fight County, IN; Colorado Springs, CO: Huntsville-Madison, against childhood obesity and; also helps unit understand n epidemic of obesity, food “deserts” in our in addressing the HIV/AIDS crisis in the African AL; Stephen F. Austin University, TX; and Hampton how to work to change policies and programs at the local, inner cities and unequal access to health American community. In 2011, the NAACP began University, VA. state, and federal levels. care — African Americans face chronic working to assist faith leaders in identifying the Joining the NAACP at the launch of the Manual was obstacles to good health in our society. most effective ways to address HIV in their respective Childhood Obesity U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin who applaud- The NAACP is working to overcome those congregations, denominations and ultimately their Issues like poor nutrition, limited physical activity, and ed the NAACP’s renewed focus on healthy living and Aobstacles so that the good work of an individual will larger communities. elevated obesity rates put the African American commu- childhood obesity. be enough to secure improving health conditions. No The Social Justice Imperative initiative seeks to em- nity at considerable risk for long term health challenges. organization can promise good health to its members power and mobilize the African American faith com- According to the Office of Minority Health, African Get HYPEd — but by working together, we can remove some of the munity by strengthening its individual and collective Americans are 1.4 times more likely to be obese than During the 2011 Annual Convention, the Health obstacles that make good health a distant dream for far capacity to move from awareness to action in address- non-Hispanic whites. More alarming is the prevalence of Program created a youth workshop entitled Get HYPED too many. ing the critical human and social justice needs of the childhood obesity among African Americans, where 35.9 Healthy Young People Everywhere — as a unique In 2011, the NAACP Health Program focused on HIV/AIDS epidemic within communities of color. percent of African American children are overweight or way — to attract young health advocates and present two key health initiatives — HIV/AIDs and Childhood In 2011, to support the initiative, the NAACP obese. These children are at risk of being obese in their the national health initiatives. Based on the positive Obesity. conducted the “Let It Rise” 12-city Tour with focus adulthood and developing serious health consequences feedback, the workshop was expanded to a national groups and roundtable discussions with over 250 including chronic diseases. college tour designed to engage young university The Black Church and HIV faith leaders in the following cities: Detroit, , To address the issue of obesity in the African American advocates in conversation around health and civil rights. The Health Program launched a new social Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Jackson (MS), Los community, the NAACP continued to engage its broad More than 200 students participated in Get HYPED justice movement, united with the Black Church, Angeles, Fort Lauderdale/Miami, New Orleans, New volunteer base and partners in providing education and events, including testing for HIV/AIDS.

14 • NAACP 2010 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 15 The NAACP has a proud legacy of advocacy for educational excellence and acknowledging the areas where disparities in achievement and opportunity persist.

Education finance systems to achieve equity in the distribution plans for dividing space and time among charter and of educational resources and further student traditional school students. achievement and attainment. The NAACP also made its voice heard on the More than 50 years after Brown v. Board established student athlete graduation rates and academic educational equality in principle, African American success. President Jealous joined Education Secretary students are still less likely to read on grade level, ac- Arne Duncan in calling on the NCAA to implement cess advanced courses, graduate from high school or new reforms to address the chronic problem of low attend college than their white counterparts. This re- graduation rates for African American college athletic ality formed the framework for the NAACP education programs. They called for colleges and universities advocacy including: high-quality pre-school, excellent which fail to graduate at least 50% of their players teaching, expanded learning opportunities, and fund- should be banned from NCAA Tournament play, and ducation is the great leveler; it allows the ing targeted to the neediest students. that tournament revenues be reconfigured to provide recipient to overcome any circumstances of This framework was used to structure work sessions incentives for schools to help players graduate. birth. With a sound education, a child of at the 2011 Education Summit, held in poverty should be able to aspire as high as Memphis, TN. The theme of the Summit was “Finding a child of privilege, giving his or her best to Our Way Back to First” and the topics covered Ethis great nation and reaping the benefits in turn. included expanded learning opportunities, the The NAACP has a proud legacy of advocacy for importance of pre-K as a foundation for literacy, civil educational excellence and acknowledging the areas rights data collection on school disciplinary practices, With a sound education, a where disparities in achievement and opportunity and equitable school funding. child of poverty should be able persist. Almost 100 years after W.E.B. DuBois In 2011, the Education Program was also responsive launched an NAACP Commission to focus on to state-specific concerns, including supporting the to aspire as high as a child educational disparities; NAACP President Jealous was NAACP New York State Conference in its efforts of privilege, giving his or her among 28 education advocates, scholars, lawyers, and to ensure student needs were met and community corporate leaders to be appointed to the Department voices were heard around school closings and the co- best to this great nation and of Education’s Equity and Excellence Commission to location of charter and traditional schools. A series examine the disparities in educational opportunities of fact-finding visits, interviews and negotiations reaping the benefits in turn. that give rise to the achievement gap. The commission with school and community officials, resulted in will also recommend ways to restructure school improved conditions for NYC students and revised

16 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 17 In 2011, the NAACP issued a joint report with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in America — detailing voter suppression initiatives legislative proposals, ballot initiatives and voting laws enacted or proposed since the 2008 election.

voting rights

istorically, African American turnout has Human Rights Day Activation Network (VAN), a national voter database been low. In many respects, this is unsur- — the rally drew supporting GOTV initiatives, to help reach a goal to prising. African Americans — denied repre- more than 25,000 register and turn out more than 600,000 voters — sentative government for so long — often participants and 10% of the unregistered African American electorate felt that it didn’t matter whether they placed a national — for the 2012 election season. Hvoted or not; their issues would never be considered as spotlight on the a priority. The NAACP’s challenge as the nation’s lead- coordinated campaign to undermine vot- ing voice for communities of color is to do what we ing rights. New York State Conference President can to maintain and sustain citizen involvement and Hazel Dukes, NAACP Political Action and Legislative clear away the obstacles to the casting of a ballot. Committee Chairman Rev. William Barber, US Senator In 2011, the NAACP issued a joint report with the Charles Schumer and Congressman Charles Rangel NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Defending Democracy: were among the featured speakers. Confronting Modern Barriers to Voting Rights in In 2011, the NAACP launched “This is My Vote” America, detailing voter suppression initiatives leg- campaign, a massive voter registration, education and islative proposals, ballot initiatives and voting laws Get out the Vote (GOTV) campaign in preparation for enacted or proposed since the 2008 election. Copies the 2012 election cycle. Through this campaign there of the report were sent to federal and state agencies was a focus on twelve at-risk states where our interven- that monitor, administer and enforce voting rights, tion will have the greatest effect, including California, including the US Department of Justice, the Federal Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Elections Commission, and the Election Assistance North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, New York Commission, as well as Secretaries of State and and Virginia. Attorneys General in all 50 states. In addition, the “This Is My Vote” will provide resources to 1,200 report will be delivered to the appropriate committees local NAACP units, including access to voter contact of jurisdiction in the House and Senate, and entities technology, grassroots volunteer mobilization, and within the United Nations. support through NAACP’s strong partnerships with The report was released just prior to the Stand For media, churches, fraternal organizations, and other Freedom rally for voting rights. Held in New York City allies. Thirty-seven state conferences and over 600 on December 10 — the United Nations’ International members participated in trainings and use of the Voter

18 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 19 With more than 700,000 people leaving prisons each year, our communities continue to grapple with the challenges presented by those who have “paid their debt to society” and yet are faced with numerous challenges and barriers that ultimately serve to continue their punishment.

Criminal Justice the launch of “Educate Over Incarcerate” campaigns to downsize prisons and shift saved dollars to state education budgets. The report and its endorsements contributed to the passing of at least a dozen progres- sive criminal justice reform bills in Texas, including a measure that shut down a prison for the first time in the state’s history. And Georgia passed a law requiring the most comprehensive review of existing criminal justice law by any state. With more than 700,000 people leaving prisons each year, our communities continue to grapple with the he current attitude toward criminal challenges presented by those who have “paid their justice among lawmakers is urgently debt to society” and yet are faced with numerous chal- in need of reform. We cannot look lenges and barriers that ultimately serve to continue at a failing system in a vacuum; it their punishment. Too often they are turned away from is not just a factor of injustice or legitimate employment, which would engage them Tof overcrowded, abusive jails. The relentless in productive activities and improve quality of life for Other key activities in the 2011 included: incarceration of non-violent drug offenders (whose everyone. When our returning citizens have an oppor- Criminal Justice Summit: NAACP State conference The misallocation of public challenges should be a health and not a criminal issue) tunity for employment all our communities benefit. presidents met in Chicago to discuss the war on drugs and is destroying families needlessly. The misallocation Employed individuals are one-third less likely than the impact drug law enforcement has on communities funds away from schooling and of public funds away from schooling and into the their counterparts to recidivate and are more likely of color. The summit included guest speakers and a into the penal system drains penal system drains urgently-needed resources. And to turn their lives around for good. Their successful facilitated discussion that resulted in a call for resolution the current system doesn’t do enough to heal fragile reentry makes our communities safer, and our economy to address racial disparities in drug arrests. urgently-needed resources. communities and make our lives safer. stronger. Building Safe Communities: NAACP’s first violence The NAACP’s criminal justice report issued in 2011, In 2011, the NAACP worked with one of the nation’s reduction initiative, Building Safe Communities brings Misplaced Priorities, analyzes the rise in corrections largest private sector employers in a “ban the box” ini- together law enforcement and communities of color expenditures at the cost of investments in education tiative of eliminating the requirement that an applicant to strengthen trust, reduce violence and respond and links low performance in high school tests to com- divulge time in prison. This initiative is transformation- to the needs of victims of violence. Pilot programs munities with high rates of incarceration. NAACP State al in the effort to eliminate employment barriers for the were established in Sacramento, California and Fort and Youth and College units took action, including formerly incarcerated. Lauderdale, Florida.

20 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 21 Local NAACP branches drew on the strength of national NAACP support and partnerships with other interested groups to make changes in their neighborhoods.

In 2011, the NAACP held four Energy Justice disaster, the tornadoes in Alabama, and flooding in Summits, educating members on the perils of fossil Mississippi (with specific recommendations to the Oil fuel-based energy and on opportunities in energy Spill Commission, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, FEMA, efficiency and clean energy. Members and units were and the American Red Cross) will help to ensure that empowered to speak out clearly on matters of climate the same mistakes wil be made in the future. justice at the national level, helping to secure passage As a result of a series of trainings, assistance with of the Mercury and Air Toxics Rule, and deflected certifications, and provision of information and attacks that would have stripped the Clean Air Act of resources, NAACP units, families, and individuals were its authority. equipped to manage the continuum of emergency Local NAACP branches drew on the strength of management from preparedness through rebuilding, national NAACP support and partnerships with including understanding the systems and the other interested groups to make changes in their resources available. neighborhoods. In Indiana, the Hammond State Line coal plant is slated for closure by 2014. Both in Georgia and in Florida, biomass incinerator proposals were defeated. The NAACP and its units continued to pursue measures that will lessen our carbon footprint on the land. For example, we’ve reduced the waste climate Justice going to landfills from the NAACP Headquarters by at least 10%, and the oo often in the past, communities of color Mississippi State Conference passed were considered expendable by polluters. a resolution to transition from coal Where to put the landfill, the factory, the power to clean energy. energy plant? Poor neighborhoods were In 2011, the NAACP continued thought to be too weak to protest — unable working to uphold civil and Tto demand clean air, clean water, and clean land for human rights in disaster planning their children. But as it has for over a century, the and emergency management NAACP’s roots in the community allow us to provide implementation by establishing an the organizing call that rallies communities in defense Emergency Management Taskforce. of their health and safety. Old mistakes are being Documenting civil and human rights remedied; new challenges are being defeated. challenges during the Gulf Oil drilling

22 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 23 In its inaugural year, the Financial Freedom Campaign provided grants to 21 communities to provide financial education, financial services, and banking resources to local communities.

Economic Opportunity

n 2011, the economy remained stagnant. Hopeful wealth building strategies in historically disadvantaged signs of progress appeared in the stock portfolios communities. of millionaires, but on the streets, where millions In its inaugural year, the Financial Freedom were suffering, times remained tough and work was Campaign provided grants to 21 communities to hard to come by. Under these conditions, attacks on provide financial education, financial services, and Iworker’s rights and the pursuit of corporate profits over banking resources to local communities. These NAACP human rights were to be expected; workers complain local units and state conference are: Alaska, Oregon less when they feel their employment options are few. and Washington State Area Conference; Huntsville, But NAACP unified communities of color to oppose Alabama; Gilbert, Arizona; Riverside, California; abuses and educated the public about their rights and Colorado Springs, Colorado; Wilmington, Delaware; their opportunities. Collaboration and participation are Rockledge, FL; Illinois State Conference; Fort Wayne, more — not less — important in hard times. IN; Louisville Youth Council; Jackson Parish Branch In 2011, the opened the NAACP Financial Freedom (Jonesboro, LA); Maryland State Conference; Biloxi, MS; Center, in Washington DC in partnership with Scotland County NAACP Youth Council (Laurinburg, Wells Fargo. The Center, the headquarters of the NC); Montclair, NJ; Rio Rancho, NM; Roosevelt, NAACP Financial Freedom Campaign, an initiative NY; Columbus, Ohio; Brownsville, TN; Texas State to influence change in the banking industry, prevent Conference and Washington, DC. These units were unfair mortgage lending practices, protect the trained to help them in the presentation of workshops community against predatory mortgage lending on financial literacy foreclosure prevention and practices, improve fair credit access, and promote recovery, credit counseling, financial planning and sustainable homeownership, financial education and community benefit agreements.

24 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 25 In 2011, the power of the NAACP was evident on the ground around key campaigns from voting rights to employee rights.

We are One–Protecting the rights of workers. Bremerton, WA As a continuation of alliances renewed during the Tennessee State Conference One Nation march in 2010, the NAACP engaged in Beverly Hills/Hollywood, CA activities to combat state-level attacks (particularly in New Orleans, LA Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana) on collective Connecticut State Conference bargaining for public employees. The NAACP joined Garland, TX more than 100 progressive allies for the “We Are One” Asbury Park/Neptune, NJ Day of Action. NAACP units across the country led Snohomish, CA more than 50 mobilizations including town halls, Bergen County, NJ rallies, press conferences and marches. Georgia State Conference In 2011, the NAACP increased membership for New Brunswick, NJ the third consecutive year for the first time in over Memphis, TN 20 years. When membership is combined with our Oranges Maplewood, NJ growing number of donors (105,000), mobile activists North Carolina State Conference (15,000), Twitter and Facebook followers (22,000 and 76,000 respectively) and e-Associates (605,000) the NAACP base of active supporters is now well over 700,000. Field Operations and Membership To build the capacity of the Units, the NAACP established the Collective Action he true strength of the NAACP has always Stand for Freedom rally on December 10 — the Fund through the Tides Foundation to help been an impassioned membership, stand- United Nation’s Human Rights Day — the NAACP and local and regional units support programs ing united for a better future. As the NAACP coalition of more than 100 partners in a rally in New and access funds to lay the critical strategizes about the best ways to improve York City for voting rights. More than 25,000 showed foundation for the 2012 election efforts. rights and equality at a national level, we up and marched to the United Nations to protest During the pilot phase, twenty-one units Tknow that the work on the ground is where the heart an aggressive attack against voting rights across the were accepted into the NAACP Collective and soul of our organization lies. With over 1,200 country. Action Fund program. These units were units (including everything from state chapters to Troy Davis. Working with our allies and the Georgia trained on the use of the Fund. The youth and college groups), the NAACP benefits from State Conference, the NAACP launched a national participating units were: the care and action of members from coast to coast. campaign that included a combination of strategic We all know we are stronger together; it is the Field communications, direct appeals to the Georgia Board Haywood South Alameda, CA Operations and Membership divisions that power our of Pardons and Parole and community organizing Springfield, MO work. including a state-wide mobilization, rallies, prayer Sacramento, CA In 2011, the power of the NAACP was evident on the services and petition drives. These events galvanized St. Louis, MO ground around key campaigns from voting rights to worldwide attention as millions of supporters weighed San Jose/Silicon Valley, CA employee rights. in and followed the Troy Davis case. South Carolina State Conference

26 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 27 Our Youth Division provides one of the strongest and most capable segments of the NAACP’s national volunteer network, with young people mobilizing and organizing around issues that impact the daily lives of African American across the country.

volunteer network, with young people mobilizing students on the direct impact of the overspending on and organizing around issues that impact the daily incarceration at the expense of education. lives of African American across the country. In Students used Facebook and Twitter to advertise 2011, our Youth Division provided strong support to their actions and to generate further buzz around work around Criminal Justice, specifically playing a the report. Chapter Presidents submitted an editorial key organizing role in supporting Troy Davis and in to their campus newspapers, highlighting the direct highlighting the findings of theMisplaced Priorities impact to their state. Each chapter gathered signatures report. on a petition for support for reform, particularly based Misplaced Priorities issued by the NAACP in 2011, on the reality that financial aid dollars are becoming identified the true cost of bleeding off educational scarce in the academic world. dollars for prisons and criminal detention. From town hall meetings and rallies to leafleting, Youth and ACT-SO College chapters seized this opportunity to educate Since 1978, ACT-SO has inspired and encouraged young people, including many in American’s toughest neighborhoods, to pursue academic and artistic excel- lence. Each year, more than 11,000 students from 210 Youth Programs ike generations before them, young people communities nationwide participate in local ACT-SO continue to be a driving force for change programs, competing in 26 categories that range from Youth and in our country. The NAACP has more than business and biology to ballet. Winners from local 25,000 members and activists under the age of competition compete at the national competition, and College Division 25, representing 700 actively involved Youth are given an opportunity to enhance their talents and LCouncils, High School Chapters and College Chapters. skills through master classess and other enrichment and This means the NAACP has one of the largest organized activities over the four day national competition. groups of young people of any secular organization In 2011, NAACP Connect was introduced — A social ACT-SO in the country. That’s not just a benefit for today. It’s networking platform connecting ACT-SO participants also a good indication that our cause will be well and from around the country for the purposes of mentor- capably tended in the decades to come. ing and collaboration. Also, in 2011, Culinary Sciences Our Youth Division provides one of the strongest was introduced as a new category to encourage Science and most capable segments of the NAACP’s national Technology Engineering and Math through the arts.

28 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 29 In 2011, the legal teams confronted the subtle racism of redistricting efforts that would split the authority of predominantly African American communities, and provided critical education on civil rights.

ince 1909, the NAACP has maintained a advocates for African Americans and other minorities • Challenges to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Legal Advocacy legendary legacy for fighting legal battles in the redistricting process by working with and in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and to win social justice for all Americans. The through NAACP branches, state conferences, Texas. NAACP Legal Department maintains an ac- and units throughout the country. We supported • Active in the litigation in challenging Texas redis- tive docket of Civil Rights cases, frequently the units with training for over 1,600 members, tricting maps and the impact on minority voting Sin conjunction with a team of cooperating lawyers technical assistance, legal counsel, and project rights. around the nation who work daily in the courts along- management with our work taking us from the • Vote Dilution Challenges in North Carolina and side the Legal Department to address Civil Rights Fayette County Georgia Commissioners Court to the Arkansas on redistricting under the one-person, violations and forge the way in the fight to prevent US Supreme Court. one-vote principle and on laws that dilute minor- the erosion of Civil Rights law in this country. The National Redistricting Project staff created ity voting strength. In 2011, the Legal team confronted the subtle and distributed over 4,000 redistricting manuals and • Challenged the voter ID laws one of the most racism of redistricting efforts that would split the au- over 8,000 brochures providing NAACP units with insidious tools to limit minority voting power in thority of predominantly African American commu- information about how they can become players in South Carolina and Texas. nities, and provided critical education on civil rights. the often-cloistered redistricting process that can These efforts are essential to removing the obstacles dilute the vote and limit minority political power. to a truly representative democracy. Through the National Redistricting Project, the Through the National Redistricting Project for NAACP are leading efforts around the country to Education, Jobs, and Justice, the NAACP acted as address challenges to voting rightsS:

30 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 31 The NAACP Hollywood Bureau continues to encourage the presence of good role models in our popular entertainment…

he NAACP Hollywood Bureau continues to NAACP Interactive Timeline — NAACPHistory.org. Hollywood Bureau encourage the presence of good role models NAACPHistory.org, a powerful learning tool launched in our popular entertainment —­ fighting in 2009 and sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, is stereotypes and promoting healthy, sound an interactive timeline that brings to life the 102-year behaviors and relationships on screen. history and the story of the TMaster’s Writing Fellowship. The NAACP through words, pictures, interviews and film. Hollywood Bureau’s Master Writing Fellowship awards In 2011, the Hollywood Bureau began to integrate were offered in conjunction with the CBS and NBC the history of six local branches into the timeline. The networks to two minority students at UCLA and USC. branch integration will become an integral part of the Both fellows, while fulfilling their fellowship require- timeline content. ments with CBS, NBC and their respective university, also participated as interns with the NAACP Hollywood Bureau.

32 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 33 The Washington Bureau ensures that African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities aren’t marginalized in the national discussion.

for. However that same law required both houses of the NAACP-supported Deaths in Custody Act and Congress to vote on a balanced budget amendment to several other crucial bills which were priorities of the the US Constitution, a measure that the NAACP strong- NAACP policy agenda were introduced in the House ly opposes. Fortunately, both the House and Senate and Senate, including the End Racial Profiling Act, defeated the amendment proposal. the Democracy Restoration Act (which mandated re- Federal job creation. The national unemployment enfranchisement for ex-felony offenders in national rate was critically high throughout 2011, and the elections), the Fix America’s Schools Today Act, the NAACP Washington Bureau worked diligently to Employment Non Discrimination Act and the Every promote job creation programs.While the official Student Counts Act, among others. national unemployment rate remained consistently Significant testimony. Judiciary Chairman Rep. around 9%, among African Americans, the rate was (TX) held a hearing on racial profiling above 16%. For African American males the rate was at which NAACP Washington Bureau Director Hilary consistently around 17.5%, and for black teens it was Shelton testified that racial profiling is unconstitution- Washington Bureau usually over 40%. Furthermore, by the end of 2011, al, socially corrupt and a counterproductive method of 1.4 million African Americans had been out of work law enforcement. The Washington Bureau also testified he NAACP’s Washington Bureau is the voice Balancing the budget. As Congress and the President for more than 6 months. Specifically, the Washington at a Senate hearing on racial profiling held in 2012. on matters of national legislative and federal battled over how to bring the federal budget more into Bureau promoted the American Jobs Act, which would And at a meeting of the US Sentencing Commission, public policy consideration. The process of balance, the NAACP consistently argued for solutions expand opportunities for the long-term unemployed NAACP testified in support of applying new sentenc- government has become so complex that few that maintain the safety net for the most vulnerable to reenter the workforce, providing incentives for ing guidelines for a federal conviction of crack cocaine individuals honestly believe they can follow Americans as well. We advocated for a federal budget businesses to hire and make investments in revitalizing possession retroactively to those currently in prison. Tthe details of even the most crucial issues — and that’s which puts people back to work; rebuilds the economy; schools, infrastructure and neighborhoods. It extends The Commission voted unanimously in support — why the NAACP created a division devoted solely to invests in infrastructure, research and innovation, unemployment insurance to benefit the long-term meaning more than 12,000 men and women currently representing the interests of communities of color within worker productivity, training and education; continues unemployed and their families, and would make incarcerated for crack cocaine possession (over10,000 the federal halls of power. The Washington Bureau to protect Americans’ civil rights; and restores fairness it illegal to discriminate against the long-term of whom are African Americans) will be eligible for ensures that African Americans and other racial and to the tax code. unemployed when making hiring decisions. The plan an adjustment of their sentences. Washington Bureau ethnic minorities aren’t marginalized in the national Determining the debt ceiling. Just one week after supports summer / year-round jobs for youth. The Director Shelton also testified before the House discussion. Although headway was made on several of the NAACP passed a resolution at its annual conven- tax cuts portion will benefit over 100,000 African Financial Services Committee in support of the nascent our legislative priorities, we were forced to defend many tion calling on Congress to pass legislation increasing American small businesses and will help African Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and before the recent gains against attacks by emboldened forces in the the debt ceiling through 2013, the President signed American owned small businesses access capital. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the subjects of 112th Congress that are hostile to our interests. a bill into law which did much of what we called Sound laws. The House of Representatives passed workplace bullying and eminent domain.

34 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 35 Leadership 500 ver 400 people attended the 7th annual Leadership 500 Summit, held in Hollywood, FL, the NAACP’s premier networking event for young professionals connects civic, com- Omunity and business representatives and engages them in critical discourse around civil faith-based leaders. Civil rights attor- rights and social justice. The summit featured ney Frankie Muse Freeman received keynote addresses by Terrie Williams of the this year’s Spingarn Award, awarded Terrie Williams Agency, Dr. Isabel Wilkerson, to an American of African descent for Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Keith Clinkscales, meeting entitled 2012: What’s the Next Step? — outstanding and noble achievement, in senior vice president, ESPN. featured panelists including Charles Ellison, Rev. Leah recognition of her extraordinary history This year’s event also featured an Energy Justice Daughtry, , and Hilary Shelton who of advocacy in the civil rights movement. Summit to examine the energy crisis and its discussed the critical role young professionals can play special events At the Convention, the NAACP also examined the implications for communities of color. A town hall as we approach the 2012 election. annual convention reality for low-income communities and communities of color including double digit unemployment, high The Great Debate he NAACP celebrated its 102nd year at our incarceration rates, school re-segregation, and other With the Connecticut State Conference, Annual Convention, held in 2011 in Los critical issues threatening progress made in the last Washington DC branch and the Howard Angeles. Under the theme of “Affirming century. Together we defined the response and scope of University college chapter, the NAACP helped America’s Promise,” thousands of delegates work for the coming year, ensuring that, in the words organize the “Great Debate,” a competition met to exchange fellowship, form stronger of President Jealous, “together, we can realize America’s between two legendary debate schools of Tbonds, and tackle the economic and social crises faced promise for all.” Howard and Yale Universities. by struggling communities of color. Students in the ACT-SO competition competed in 26 The Great Debate attracted over 1,000 people The Youth and College Division celebrated its 75th categories including sciences, humanities, performing with MSNBC correspondent and former anniversary — a powerful legacy of fostering leadership arts, visual arts, and business. ACT-SO attracts some of NAACP Youth & College Division director for the NAACP and the nation for three-quarters of a the nation’s most gifted high school students. Its past Jeff Johnson serving as the debate host. century. This milestone was celebrated with workshops, participants occupy a wide array of careers ranging luncheons and forums, culminating in a special plenary from executive positions to entertainment. Famed ACT- session. SO alumni include musician Kanye West, actress Jada Convention participants included actors, established Pinkett-Smith, filmmaker John Singleton and comedian and emerging civil rights leaders, elected officials and Anthony Anderson.

36 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 37 Religious Leaders Summit

he NAACP’s 13th National Religious NAACP Image Awards he 42nd NAACP Image Awards celebrates the Leaders Summit — “From Prophetic accomplishments of people of color working in the fields The 42nd NAACP Preaching to Prophetic Action”— drew of literature, music, television and film. It also honors more than 80 attendees from major individuals and groups who promote social justice through Image Awards religious denominations. The Leadership creative endeavors. The awards show was broadcast live TRoundtable Breakfast brought together religious leaders celebrates the Tfrom the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California and representing more than 15 million people. Attendees hosted by Wayne Brady and Holly Robinson-Pete. accomplishments participated in the first Social Justice Institute and Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin received the Chairman’s took part in discussions on the NAACP 2012 Civic Award and General (Ret.) was the recipient of the of people of color Engagement Plan, mass incarceration, and our fight President’s Award. Celebrity presenters and guests included Halle working in the against the death penalty. Berry, Prince, Sofia Vergara, Amber Riley, LL Cool J and many more. Celebrated recording artists Mary Mary, Michael Franti and Spearhead fields of literature, performed. music, television All the participants showed their support of union workers by wearing red, white, and blue ribbons to show that they stand in and film. solidarity with workers struggling to maintain collective bargaining agreements in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and dozens of other states.

38 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 39 Crisis & Other Percent of Total Revenue Percent of Total Expenses Fundraising Revenue Crisis Selling Events 12% 20% 1% Expense Management & Contributions 1% Membership, Stakeholders and General financials 61% 11% Freedom Funds Program Services 18% 77%

NAACP and Affiliates Consolidated Statements of Financial Position CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOW as ofDecember 31, 2011 and 2010 for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 (cont.) for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010

2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 2011 2010 ASSETS CURRENT ASSETS SUPPORT AND REVENUE Research and Policy 1,143,211 1,254,581 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,384,085 $ 2,214,468 Support: Education 582,217 570,330 Change in net assets $ (1,081,434) $ 418,033 Investments 4,654,628 4,638,301 Grants and Contributions $ 19,852,400 $ 19,752,713 Health 877,284 467,653 Adjustments to reconcile changes in net assets Accounts receivable, net 4,334,827 4,140,886 Legacies and bequests 65,065 291,213 Economic Development 1,830,033 327,100 to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities Other current assets 103,323 97,610 Total Support $ 20,217,465 $ 20,043,926 Disaster Relief 764 234,066 Depreciation 211,459 219,792 Total Current Assets $ 12,476,863 $ 11,091,265 Climate Justice 294,033 218,835 Unrealized (gain) loss on investments 246,412 (250,629) Revenue: Criminal Justice 841,260 580,900 Changes in assets and liabilities: FIXED ASSETS Membership $ 2,847,951 $ 3,088,155 Human Rights and Voting Rights 551,979 – Decrease (Increase) in Accounts receivable (193,941) (1,441,660) Furniture and equipment, net $ 985,121 $ 595,891 Convention 2,942,119 2,827,838 Cost of Sales - Crisis 861,511 841,556 Decrease (Increase) in other assets, net (5,713) (926) Land and building 454,550 454,550 Image Awards 3,361,516 2,210,530 Total Program Services 25,127,906 22,181,610 (Decrease) Increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses (378,920) 1,228,556 Total Fixed Assets, net $ $1,439,671 $ 1,050,441 Leadership 500 500,155 357,025 (Decrease) Increase in pension benefits 1,734,337 375,047 Legal 2,013,162 Support Services: OTHER ASSETS (Decrease) Increase in other liabilities – (206,101) Regional Offices & Conferences 25,000 90,348 Management and general 3,544,382 4,132,680 Other assets 15,583 15,583 Freedom Funds 1,234,786 1,238,865 Fundraising 3,775,193 3,486,061 Net cash (used in) provided Total Other Assets $ 15,583 $ 15,583 by operating activities 532,200 342,112 Investment income (79,024) 453,370 Selling expense 276,893 296,262

Disaster Relief 21,363 198,883 Total Support Services 7,596,468 7,915,003 TOTAL ASSETS $ 13,932,117 $ 12,157,289 CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITES Subscriptions 14,432 66,033 Purchase/transfer of investments (2,213,335) (3,711,883) Advertising 114,000 27,098 TOTAL EXPENSES 32,724,374 30,096,613 LIABILITIES Sale of investments 2,118,547 3,750,258 Other revenue 164,352 287,622 Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 1,983,844 $ 2,362,764 Reinvestment of interest and dividends (167,951) (161,207) Total Revenue $ 13,159,812 $ 10,845,767 Support and revenue over expenses 652,903 793,080 Line of credit 1,500,844 – Purchase of property and equipment (600,689) (87,801) Change in defined pension plan obligation (1,734,337) (375,047) Pension benefits 3,292,004 1,557,667 Net cash (used in) provided by TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE $ 33,377,277 $ 30,889,693 CHANGE IN NET ASSETS (1,081,434) 418,033 investing activities (863,428) (210,633) Net Assets/(Deficit), Beginning of Year 8,236,858 7,818,825 TOTAL LIABILITIES $ 6,776,692 $ 3,920,431 EXPENSES Net Assets/(Deficit), End of Year $ $7,155,424 $8,236,858 CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITES Program Services: NET ASSETS/SHAREHOLDER’S EQUITY Advances on loan management account 1,500,844 – Membership Services $ 1,519,643 $1,398,962 Unrestricted 1,230,797 4,349,713 Field Operations 4,084,471 4,065,849 Net cash (used in) provided by Board designated net assets 3,081,799 2,954,030 financing activities 1,500,844 – Convention 3,432,223 2,744,050 Accumulated deficit (4,357,922) (4,688,253) Crisis Image Awards 2,325,838 1,906,451 Percent of Program Expenses Magazine (45,326) 2,615,490 3% Membership & Field Net (decrease) increase in cash Leadership 500 Summit 525,587 369,025 Operations and cash equivalents 1,169,616 131,479 Temporarily restricted 7,200,751 5,621,368 Events 22% ACT-SO 1,051,690 841,677 25% CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, Civic Engagement 338,850 1,115,114 BEGINNING OF YEAR 2,214,468 2,082,989 TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $ 13,932,117 $ 12,157,289 Legal Programs and Fellows 1,969,694 1,475,097 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, Direct Issue Education 2,845,055 3,041,090 END OF YEAR $ 3,384,084 $ 2,214,468

Redistricting Project 52,563 729,274 Policy & Advocacy Supplemental Data: Programs 49% Cash paid for interest $ $4,688 $ –

40 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 41 our donors The NAACP is grateful to all our donors who support and share our efforts to advance civil and human rights. Sodexo, Inc. $10,000 — $24,999 Our work would not be possible without their support. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Battle Creek Foundation The NAACP values the support of its many supporters and works to ensure that all contributions are properly recognized. So, if your contribution has been inadvertently omitted or misrepresented, or for spelling errors, please contact the Development Office at (410) 580-5777. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company The Dana Foundation The Hershey Company The Shelly and Donald Rubin Corporate Contributions and Sponsorships Time Warner, Inc. Foundation U–Haul International The Peierls Foundation $1,000,000 and above Southwest Airlines $10,000 — $49,999 Venable Foundation Sprint Nextel Public Interest Project AT&T, In c. State Farm Insurance Companies American Honda Motor Company, Inc Foundations Bank of America, N.A. The Coca — Cola Company Aspen Marketing Services Blackstone Campbell Soup Company $1,000,000 and above Organizations Boston Consulting Group $50,000 — $99,999 CBS Corporation Fox Entertainment Group Ceasar’s Entertainment, Inc. The Ford Foundation $100,000 and above Starbucks Coffee Company Alorica, Inc. Hilton Worldwide W.K. Kellogg Foundation United Parcel Company (UPS) BMW of North America, LLC Citigroup, Inc. UAW/Chrysler Verizon Foundation Chevron Corporation Comerica Bank $500,000 — $999,999 Auxiliary to the National Medical Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. Compass Bank Association $200,000 — 999,999 Credit Suisse First Boston Bank Compuware Corporation Atlantic Philanthropies Disney Worldwide Services Convergys Corporation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation $50,000 — $99,999 Chrysler Group, LLC Food Lion, LLC Denny’s Corporation Knight Foundation Edison International GEICO DTE Energy Open Society Institute American Federation of Teachers Federal Express General Electric Company Eastman Kodak Company Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Toyota Motors General Motors Corporation Gap Foundation $100,000 — $499,999 Education Fund, Inc. University of Phoenix Google, Inc. General Mills, Inc. (Apollo Group, Inc.) Group O. General Motors Annie E. Casey Foundation $25,000 — $49,999 Walmart Stores Honeywell International, Inc. Hyundai Motor Company Bi–Partisan Institute Kellogg Corporate Citizen Fund Juniper Networks Gill Foundation United States Department of the Army $100,000 — $199,999 Lowe’s Companies, Inc. Lakeshore Engineering Services Marguerite Casey Foundation United States Department of the Navy McDonald’s Corporation Lockheed Martin Corporation Public Welfare Foundation Anheuser Busch Companies, Inc. MillerCoors Marathon Oil Corporation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $5,000 — $24,999 CVS Caremark Corporation Motorola Mobility, Inc. Marriott International, Inc. Rosenberg Foundation ExxonMobil Corporation Nationwide Mutual Insurance MetLife, Inc. AFL–CIO Food Lion, LLC Company Moët Hennessy USA $50,000 — $99,999 Alfred Memorial Baptist Church Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc. Perennial Strategy Group New Concepts Management Arcus Foundation Emmanuel Baptist Church Pepisco, Inc. Sprint Foundation Solutions, LLC Fellowship Chapel Personnel Strategies, Inc. The Home Depot, Inc. Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Pharma YUM! Brands, Inc. Northern Trust Corporation

42 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 43 individual donors

hanks to the individuals that make up our NAACP family of supporters. Through the generous gifts of Willie M. Collins Paige Floys Grace Karasik Gorlitz Kathryn Henry over 105,000 supporters, the NAACP has been able to grow and thrive while providing vital support the Eugene Conner Pat Flynn Flora Grant Ira M. Heyman African American community. Below you will find a list of lead individual donors that have generously Laurel A. Copeland Mr. & Mrs. Bob Flynn William H. Graves Darrius Heyward-Bey given during the 2011 calendar year. We humbly thank you for your generosity and continued support. Bruce E. Cox Frankie Muse Freeman Billie Greer Walt Higgins T James W. Crowell, III Johnny Furr, Jr. Hardy Gregory William S. Hight Second Century Society Robert Johnson Joseph B. Atuah Cora Breckenridge Harold Crumpton James Gallman Lewis Guthrie Edythe N. Hill (Individual gifts of $10,000 Sekou and Jennifer Kaalund Anna R. Austin Carl Breeding William & Elizabeth Cunningham Darrien L. Gaston Jeanette Hadley Conrad Hipkins or greater) Thomas Kalahar Ophelia Averitt Roslyn M. Brock G. Daley Patrick R. Gaston Andrew J. Hairston Wilbert Holcomb Peter Lewis Louis J. Baldwin Willie L. Brown Kenneth C. Daly Gregory H. Gibson Robert Half Raynald Holder Anonymous Jo Muse Willa Bandler Amos Brown Linda Darling-Hammond T. G ilm o r e Sara Harris General Holiefield Tyler Perry Mike Stoller Fred L. Banks Clayola Brown Davis David E. Goatley Robert Hart Roy A. Holmes John Fisher Esther Silver Parker Laura N Banks-Reed Debra Brown Theresa A. Dear Joyce & Allan Goldberg Robert Hatcher Tyrone Holt Carol Tolan William Barber, II Kenyon Burke Richard A. Debs Marian Goodman J. Maxie & Eve M. Hemmans James C. Hormel Dan Fireman Chairman’s Circle Robert Bell Linda Burnes-Bolton Anita Defrantz Mitchell Kapor and (Individual gifts of $1,000 to $9,999) Samuel G. Benson Patrick Butler Lauretta Devance Freada Kapor Klein Stephen Bernier Velma Butler Georgette Dixon Johathan Soros Neal B. Abraham Reginald I. Berry Jessica Butler-Grant Angela Dorn M. Quinn Delaney and Ernie Adair Robert Billingslea Porter D. Campbell Edward Dubose Wayne D. Jordan Roger Ailes Laura Blackburne Jack Cannon Eugene Duffy L. John Doerr and Pamela Alexander Larcine Bland Akeisha M. Carraway-Foster Hazel N. Dukes Ann Howland Doerr A. P. Alford Louis Blau Florence Carter Thomas Edwards Victor B. and Susan W. Almy Gary Bledsoe Donald L. Cash Willis Edwards Thaderine D. McFarlane Horace T. Alston Joyce Bloch Lisa C. Chanles Sybil Edwards McNabb Joe and Sylvia Shoen Jeanette Altenau Barbara Bolling Frank M. Clark Katherine Egland Jon L. Stryker Nancy D. Alvord Eugenia E. Clarke Deborah A. Elam Nancy Alvord S. B. Andrus Sam Bone James Cluff James B. Ellis Frank and Carol Biondi Daniel Aronson Robert Book William Cofield Joan W. Ellison Alphonse Fletcher Jr. and John E. Arradondo Andrew H. Bowers Juan Cofield Harold Epps Ellen K. Pao Janet Asimov Karen Boykin-Towns Carolyn Coleman Scott X. Esdaile Art Harper James A. Attwood Sharon B. Brandford Lois Collier Myrlie Evers-Williams

44 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 45 individual donors

Arleya Horne Masayoshi Itoh Edward P. Johnson Rita Mack Willie L. Newsome Floyd Robinson Richard Stephenson Kathleed Wilson-Thompson Cecil R. House Shirley James Derick Johnson Daniel Maddux Denise A. Norman Madie Robinson Mark C. Stevens Jarris Wood Alice Huffman John James Ernest Johnson Guy Maitland Silas Norman Jr. John H. Rodgers Mike Stoller Robert Woodie Priscilla S. Hunt Leonard James Roger Johnson C. M. Mansfield Wilda Northrop Alfred Rucks R. M. Strong W. Redwood Wright Barbara Hyde Quentin James Anna Jones Eugene Martin Adora Obi Nweze Charlie L. Russell Harrison D. Taylor Mildred Yearby Osagie Imasogie Ruth B. Jaynes Robert E. Jones Annie B. Martin Clarence O’Banner Leon Russell Oneita Taylor Carole Young Joseph T. Inglefield Howard Jefferson Tom Joyner James H. Matheson Ann Winter Odette Anita Russell William O. Taylor Gwendolyn Iolani-Smith George Johnson Judy M. Judd Gregory Mathis Katherine Oglebay White Barbara Sabol Jeffrey Thompson Eva M. Isaac Robert l. Johnson Thomas Kalahar Marcella Maxwell Ugochukwu and Nene Okereke Paul Sack Mirium J. Todd Tripplett Lawrence Kalish Lamell McMorris John Bunmi Olowoyeye Barbara Sapp Davis William J. Vanden Heuvel Frank Kane Sybil McNabb Mary W. Parker Julius Scruggs Manuel F. Villalon Naneen Karraker Clarence McPhatter Mitchell Parks William Sealey Mario Vizcaya Colivan B. Kelly Allen Melville Benjamin F. Payton Peten Shane Molli Wagner Shayla King Kameron Middlebrooks M Lee Pearce Eric D. Shearer Wilbert L. Walker Edward Kissam Eliza M. Migdal Margaret Pemberton Lee & Christine Shodiss Dix Wayman George W. Krumme Nathaniel Miles Alvin K. Phillips Lewis Shomer Arthur E. Webster Steven & Amy Kruvant Michael L. Miller Evelyn Pleasure Esther Silver-Parker Rosalie J. Weir William F. Kuntz Lorraine C. Miller Claudia Polite Chanda R. Simpson Stuart Weissler First Middle Last Thedola H. Milligan Ellen Posel Christina S. Singleton Linda M. Westgate Chul J. Lee Miriam K. Mills James L. Potts Joanne Slawinski Terrence A. White Joseph R. Levee Jan W. Mitchell Colin Powell Frances W. Slocum Thurman V. White Roy Levy Williams Thomas Monahan Joseph Proctor John Smith Thomas E. White William E. Little Jerome Mondesire Dwayne C. Proctor Hilton Smith Harold Wilcher Mae Lockett William Morkill Robert Quillin Larry Smith Roy Levy Williams Dorothy Lockspeiser Stevland Morris Franklin D. Raines Anthony L. Snoddy Arthur Williams Tanya Leah Lombard Emmit Moss Lonnie Randolph Lola Sorrells Paul G. Williams Arthur E. Lowenthal Kevin Nelson Paul Richard Leonard F. Springs Rodrick Williams Larry Lucas Nathaniel Nettles Laura Richmond John Stanford Hal Williams William Lucy Win & Christie Neuger Jeanne G. Roberts Thomas O. Stanley Herm M. Willie Bob Lydia Eugene B. Neville Demar Roberts Celois Steele Lillie B. Wilson

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Roslyn M. Brock Jessica Butler-Grant David Goatley Honorable Greg Mathis Eugene J. Duffy Roslyn M. Brock Sybil Edwards Mcnabb Thomas E. White Chairman Harrisburg, Pa Washington, Dc Burbank, Ca Chairman Elkridge, Md Columbus, Oh Racine, Wi

Leon Russell Donald Cash Bishop William H. Graves Kameron Middlebrooks Dr. Marcella M. Maxwell Dr. Kenyon C. Burke Nathaniel Miles Herm M. Willie Vice Chairman Landover, Md Memphis, Tn Des Moines, Ia Vice Chairman Maplewood, Nj Seattle, Wa Tucson, Az

Benjamin Todd Jealous William Cofield Bishop Roy A. Holmes Lorraine Miller Kim Keenan Juan Cofield Adora Obi Nweze Roy Levy Williams President/Ceo Frankfort, Ky Richton Park, Il Washington, Dc General Counsel/Secretary West Roxbury, Ca Miami Shores, Fl Detroit, Mi

Chairman’s Circle Carolyn Coleman Arleya Horne Jerome Mondesire Thomas Kalahar Georgette Dixon Clarence O’banner Kathleen Wilson-Thompson Pleasant Garden, Nc New Orleas, La Philadelphia, Pa Treasurer Charlotte, NC Atlanta, Ga Deerfield, Il Henry “Hank” Aaron Myrlie Evers-Williams James W. Crowell, Iii General Holiefield Adora Obi Nwexe Benjamin Todd Jealous Angela Dorn Esther Silver-Parker Carole Young Earl Graves, Sr. Biloxi, Ms Detroit, Mi Miami, Fl President/Ceo New York, Ny Bentonville, AR Houston, Tx

Ophelia Averitt Harold Crumpton Alice Huffman Keith A. Ratliff Chairman’s Circle Katherine T.egland Dwayne Proctor, Ph.d Akron, Oh St. Louis, Mo Sacramento, Ca Urbandale, Ia Gulfport, Ms Princeton Junction, Nj Henry “Hank” Aaron Honorable Fred L. Banks Rev. Theresa A. Dear Leonard James Mr. Demar Roberts Myrlie Evers-Williams Johnny Furr, Jr. Dr. Lonnie Randolph Jackson, MS Bartlett, Il Houston, Tx Germantown, Tn Earl Graves, Sr. St.louis, Mo Columbia, Sc

Dr. William Barber, Ii Edward Dubose Quentin James Madia Robinson Pamela Alexander Patrick R. Gaston Madie Robinson Goldsboro, Nc Columbus, Ga Washington, Dc Florence, Sc Dearbon, Mi Basking Ridge, Nj Florence, Sc

Gary Bledsoe Hazel Dukes Howard Jefferson Aldred Rucks Jeanette Altenau Cecil R, House Barbara Sabol Austin, Tx New York, Ny Houston, Tx Las Cruces, Nm Cincinnati, Oh Rosemead, Ca Battle Creek, Mi

Julian Bond Willis Edwards Derick Johnson Anita Russell John E. Arradondo Gwendolyn Iolani-Smith Barbara Sapp Davis Washington, Dc Los Angeles, Ca Jackson, Ms Kansas City, Mo Old Hickory, Tn Hartford, Ct Houston, Tx

Karen Boykin-Towns Katherine Egland Ernest Johnson Robert Billingslea Roger Johnson Lewis Shomer New York, Ny Gulfport, Ms Baton Rouge, La Lake Buena Vista, Fl Atlanta, Ga Santa Monica, Ca

Cora Breckenridge Scot X. Esdaile Shayla King Hon.laura D. Blackburne Col. Ivan B. Kelly Hilton Smith Elkhart, In Hamden, Ct Chicago, Il Jamaica, Ny Woodbridge, Va Cleveland, Oh

Amos Brown Myrlie Evers-Williams William Lucy Larcine Bland Tanya Leah Lombard Larry Smith San Francisco, Ca Pomona, Ca Washington, Dc Dallas, Tx Washington, Dc Detroit, Mi

Clayola Brown Paige Floys Bob Lydia Barbara Bolling Larry Lucas Leonard F. Springs Washington, Dc Northfield, Nj Duncanville, Tx Gary, In Washington, Dc Charlotte, Nc James Gallman Debra Brown Annie B. Martin Carl L. Breeding Lamell Mcmorris Celois Steele Aiken, Sc Emporia, Va New York, Ny Jackson, Mi Washington, Dc Minneapolis, Mn

48 • NAACP 2011 Annual Report NAACP 2011 Annual Report • 49 India Artis Mary Wright Carmen Watkins HUMAN RESOURCES Sharon Chew Nicole Kenney NAACP Staff Business Manager Exhibits Manager Interim Field Director Cathy Grantham Data Entry Clerk Program Coordinator Vice President Reginald Thomas, Jr. FIELD & MEMBERSHIP Reverend Charles White Sidra Kirnon Dedrick Muhammad OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN Maintenance Director of Advertising OPERATIONS Director, Field Organizing Nancy Bailey Data Entry Clerk Sr. Director Economic Programs OF THE BOARD Alethea Bonello Manager Ronald Lamyssaire Wayne Fitzpatrick FINANCE Victoria Murchison Jacqueline Patterson Shawna Webster Incoming Mailroom Clerk Youth Field Organizer Art Director Brenda Watkins Noel Senior Secretary Director, Climate Gap Initiative Sr. Director National Board Office INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Darnel Brown Chief Financial Officer Philip White Tehra Williams Jacob Frimpong Hope Randall Robert Rooks Nicholas Wiggins Outgoing Mailroom Clerk Constituent Services Representative Director, Information Technology Administrative Assistant James Williams Data Entry Clerk Director, Criminal Justice Manager, External Relations Stefanie Brown Controller ACT-SO DEVELOPMENT Tonya Banks Wanda Worrell Keron Sadler Barbara Brown Director, Field Organizing Database Administrator Anana Kambon Keianna Thompson Life Membership Secretary Health Manager Executive Assistant Moneese DeLara Director, ACT-SO Program Deputy Controller Vice President, Development Keena Davis Lasan Coger Administrative Coordinator PROGRRAMS Shannon Morgan Executive Office Jamie Jones Branch Systems Support Analyst Paula Brown-Edme Crystal Brannon Steve Hawkins Program Specialist Benjamin Todd Jealous Administrative Coordinator Cash Receipts Specialist Associate Director, New York Reverend Gill Ford LEGAL DEPARTMENT Chief Programs Officer President & CEO Development Office Director, Unit Capacity Building WASHINGTON BUREAU Breanan Wofford Dawnyell Harris Kim Keenan Shavon Arline Hilary Shelton Administrative Assist Roger Vann Ebony Jones Trudy Grant Executive Assistant General Counsel Director, Health Program Vice President of Advocacy & Chief Operating Officer & Chief Administrative Coordinator Manager Stakeholder Relations Director of the Washington Bureau COMMUNICATIONS of Staff Melissa Lawson Anson Asaka Lillian Bowie Christopher Fleming Scott Melton Reverend Julius C. Hope Staff Accountant Assistant General Counsel Director Economic Partnership Brandon Johns Kia Heath Director Communications Director of Annual Funds Director Religious Affairs Policy Analyst Vice President, Executive Craig Lee Dorcas Gilmore Dawn Chase Derek Turner Alvin Starks Michael Jordan Staff Accountant Assistant General Counsel Program Manager Carol Kaplan Operations Sr. Communications Associate Director of Foundation Relations Constituent Services Representative Congressional Analyst Jotaka Eddy Sylvia O’Neal Victor Goode Vivian Duru Special Assistant to the President Joi Ridley Neanna Roane McLean Kirin Kennedy Accounts Payable Specialist Assistant General Counsel Program Coordinator (Health) Adam Lee & CEO Communications Associate Administrative Coordinator Regional Field Fellow Legislative & Communications Nazar Scott Merlgene Lumley Mjiba Frehiwot Secretary Ericka Gortman Curtis Johnson Edward Robinson Audrey A. Lamyssaire Unit Compliance Coordinator Executive Assistant Director Organizing & Training Executive Assistant & Scheduler, Social Media & Online Specialist Sr. Major Gifts Officer Manager, Constituent Services Valerie McDonald President & CEO Ezelma Smith Saundra Grice Tiffany Beth Glenn Receptionist Sectary Eric Wingerter Mildred B. Roxborough Jonathon Lewis Renewal Coordinator Legal Support Specialist Director, Education Stephanie Hall Director Web Campaign/New Consultant Regional Field Fellow Cathy Miller Executive Assistant to the Chief Media HOLLYWOOD BUREAU Lanita Ross Melissa Gopie Operations Manager Legal Support Specialist Operating Officer & Chief of Staff Matthew Schwieger James Murray VicAngelo Bulluck Manager Office Operations Eric Oliver Office Manager of Operations Civil Rights Archives/Librarian Executive Director, Hollywood Executive Assistant, Economic Joseph Reed Kendra Glover Sadie Harris Web Developer Bureau Program Policy Analyst Executive Assistant, President & Jessie Sigmon Jerome Reide Paralegal CEO Benjamin Wrobel Executive Assistant Youth Field Organizer Cynthia Mayhew-Hinds Rebecca Guerra Evan Johnson Press Assistant Manager Program Specialist Carrlyn Evans EVENTS PLANNING Reverend Nelson B. Rivers III Records Maintenance Coordinator Administrative Coordinator CRISIS Ana Aponte-Curtis Vice President of Stakeholder Robin Harrison Wendy Hamilton MEMBERSHIP Jabari Asim Vice President, Events Planning Relations Senior Manager, Special Project Executive Assistant to the Chief ADMINISTRATION Editor-in-Chief Manager Andrea Brown-Gee Program Officer Lewis Conaway Chantél Clea Goins Yutiv Stafford Director of Membership Lottie Joiner Executive Assistant Report Administrator D’Kwon Stackhouse Niaz Kasravi Senior Editor Hollywood Bureau Jacqueline Anderson Senior Manager, Law Enforcement Felisha Fowlkes Shawn Ward-Dunlap Senior Data Processing Clerk Accountability Administrative Coordinator Correspondence Coordinator

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