* New York’s leadership must voice strong opposition to the cuts to job training, employment services, and vocational and adult education programs that are contained in President Bush’s fiscal year 2008 budget request.

* Create an Earned Income Tax Credit for young workers.

* Establish a “Growth and Opportunity Trust Fund” to increase money available for workforce development.

* New York State should create more apprentice opportunities to connect youth to living wage jobs.

* Create a second chance system based on transitional jobs.

* Creation of a Special Independent Office with a Commissioner to Oversee and Audit the Industry

* Provide the office with the power to coordinate data across union programs and at the city and state levels in order to better monitor and manage the efforts and goals of the commission

* Provide both the resources to acquire the technical tools along with the legal authority to acquire, create and integrate all of the necessary data for oversight, management and enforcement purposes

* Inclusionary Zoning is an effective tool that links development of market rate affordable to low- and moderate-income households. This can be included in zoning requirements as either a voluntary or mandatory program.

* PREDATORY LENDING must be addressed through a partnership with the financial industry, government and local community based organizations to ensure that families that have been victimized with subprime loans that they can ill afford are given the opportunity to retain their equity through workouts, modifications and forbearance plans that allow the borrower to make payments over time.

* Credit enhancement for smaller local contractors should be provided in connection with each of the large scale developments planned throughout the five boroughs.

* City Planning Commission should reflects the racial and ethnic composition of New York City and African Americans should ensure ‘our’ seat at the table where life changing decisions are made about communities.

* COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS CAN: (1) educate seniors about benefits of living in NYC and offer counseling and referral services, (2) Offer Financial Literacy Classes and campaign for inclusionary zoning

* The compilation, maintenance, and monitoring, of quality of life data for the city’s African American Children on authenticated indicators of child well-being and others that capture data on intervening variables unique to the African American experience.

* Support research and scholarship undertaken from a minority perspective to contribute to an expanded knowledge base for informing evidenced-based, culturally competent policy and program development.

* Strengthen and sustain the service giving and organizational capability of existing minority governed community based child and family serving agencies and those that may emerge in the future.

* Target a study neighborhood to be used as a laboratory over a demonstration period for the implementation of the recommendations, which will be planned and implemented under the cooperative oversight of the New York Urban League and Black Equity Alliance.

* DEVELOP A MENTORING PROGRAM FOR THE MOST TROUBLED YOUTH.

* ORGANIZE SATURDAY PARENT MEETINGS EVERY OTHER MONTH

* CREATE EXTENDED DAY AND SATURDAY PROGRAMS

* ORGANIZE A “FRIENDS OF” 501(C) (3).

* Place cold calls to 10 CEOs you’re interested in forming a mentor/protégé relationship with. Have lunch with your mentor once a month to talk about your strategies and accomplishments.

* Check out outsourcing opportunities from major corporations and partner with other firms to go after bigger jobs.

* Don’t risk having to turn down a job because you don’t have enough staff. Instead, create a consortium of professionals whose services go hand in hand with yours. Build a virtual company by pooling independent business owners or freelancers (who may even live in different cities) to work as team.

* * Language Campaign - a collaborative effort, this campaign will stress the importance of language and the necessity to redefine the terms of the current criminal punishment discussion. It will use all of the available media to introduce new terms and concepts. This will include, but not be limited to the following:

* New York based National Conference – a local gathering of leading national Black thinkers, human rights activists, criminal justice advocates, attorneys, law enforcement, academics and other interested parties to discuss the question of Race and Criminal Punishment; co-hosted by NuLeadership.

* Education and Training – a collaborative between NuLeadership and identified partners offering a series of training courses, certification and workshops through the School of Continuing Education at Medgar Evers College

* To have black directors in more meaningful numbers in New York City will not happen without committed, lasting leadership at the CEO level. Racial diversity in the boardroom doesn’t trickle up from the staff ranks or those of middle management. It must be a priority of the organization’s leader who makes it one for the board itself. Board integration happens when it has a champion and who better in the role than the chief executive.

* Existing Directors CEO’s and boards that are serious about the challenges of integration will turn to their existing black directors to recruit others.

* Academe has long provided directors to boards from its wealth of PhD’s, professors, deans, and academic officers — at least from white colleges and universities. Even with low doctoral production rates, there is still a growing number of black PhD’s moving up in college hierarchies.

* The Military presents another remarkable area to search for black directors. Retired officers, disciplined, conscientious, and trained leaders have much to offer from their worldwide experience and travels.

* Not-for-profit Institutions can serve the goal of increased black directors in two ways. Corporate executives and directors commonly serve on non-profit boards, but the reverse can be the case as well.

* Government: The influx of African-Americans to, and leaving, politics at every level — local, state and federal, represents a considerable cadre of proven leadership to draw upon.

* Request of the advertising agencies annual spending goals for black media.

* Existing Directors CEO’s and boards that are serious about the challenges of integration will turn to their existing black directors to recruit others.

* Request of Governor Spitzer and Mayor Bloomberg for an executive order setting spending goals for municipal agency advertising in Black media. Advertising money spent by the Education Departments, Port Authority, Transit, Sanitation, Power, Law, Finance etc.

* Create employment pipelines, training and support for minorities in the advertising industry.

* Advertising support will allow Black newspapers to be distributed in schools; plus school budgets should support buying beyond News, Post and Times.

* Create corporate citizen report card on the advertising spending in the black media.

* Pressure the National Adverting Review Board on compliance and performance on all of the cited issues.

* The City Council or its Commission must monitor all of the recommendation, apply monetary penalties where applicable and ensure hiring throughout all levels.