The ReGeneration Gala
Update
GREAT NEWS!
First 2 Lead Gifts Secured for DataCenter’s ReGeneration
Celebration. On November 10th, DataCenter will celebrate
the Role of Research in the Social Justice Movement, through
the lens of DataCenter . We hope you plan to join us as
we honor our founders, our new leadership, and the stories
we have helped over the last 34 years by consistently
providing critical research for grassroots community power
around the country and beyond.
ReGeneration!: Research Legacies Moving Forward
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The Honorary Host Committee
Groundbreaking Report on Chinatown
Restaurant Workers
by Saba
Waheed, DataCenter Research Director
 The
Chinese
Progressive Association(CPA), with support from the
DataCenter,
released the groundbreaking report that documents the
working and health conditions of San Francisco Chinatown's
restaurant workers. This report, based on surveys of 433
restaurant workers interviewed by their peers and observational
data on 106 restaurants, found a prevalence of low-road
industry practices such as wage violations, lack of benefits,
poor working conditions, and stressful and hazardous workplaces.
These conditions leave workers insecure in their jobs
and vulnerable to injury and illness, while negatively
affecting consumers, businesses, and the community. The
problems in Chinatown reflect a national epidemic of wage
theft and lowered labor standards. The report concludes
with a series of recommendations to address working conditions
for restaurant workers as well as all low wage workers.
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Download the full report (pdf)
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Download the executive summary (pdf)
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Download the reports in Chinese, Spanish, or English
(pdf)
In The Media: Over 160 people and at least a dozen media
outlets attended the press release. Here are some links
to newspaper and local television coverage:
SF
Chronicle - SF
Appeal - The
Bay Citizen - Channel
7 - Channel
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Documenting
Our Lives: A Step-By-Step Guide On Designing and Implementing
Your Own Research Project
We know that designing a research
project can be daunting. DataCenter's newest toolkit Documenting
Our Lives: A Guide To Designing Your Research Project
walks you through that planning process. It outlines things
to keep in mind during the planning such as capacity and
resource issues, strategic considerations, and how to
choose your methods. The guide includes a worksheet that
is clear and simple to use in building your plan. Based
on our popular workshop, this toolkit will support organizations
in that first and most important step in the research
process.
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Download the toolkit (pdf)
Welcome
Christina Fletes, National Domestic Worker Survey Project
Fellow!  We
are very excited to introduce Christina Fletes who will
coordinate the national domestic workers survey project
- the first ever national study of domestic workers across
the country. Christina received a BA in Ethnic Studies
and a BA in Political Economy of Industrial Societies
with distinction in general scholarship from the University
of California, Berkeley. She is part of the first generation
in her family to attend college and as such has been an
advocate for educational justice and access for socio-economically
disadvantaged peoples. At UC Berkeley she completed her
Senior Honors Thesis titled, Luchadoras: Latina Bay
Area Domestic Workers and Organizing Methods.
My
Summer Internship: Researching the Food Chain
by Chris Moulton, University of California,
DataCenter Summer Intern  As
a Research and Policy Intern for DataCenter, in collaboration
with the Food
Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA), I completed several
projects dealing with low-wage workers in the food supply-chain.
The purpose of this research is to assist the members
of the FCWA to gather information about workers in the
industries all along the food chain so that they can improve
conditions for all food-related workers. The industries
analyzed include: agriculture, fisheries, animal husbandry,
meatpacking/poultry processing, food processing and manufacturing,
logistics (includes warehouses, transportation, food distribution),
grocery, and restaurants. The primary focus of these projects
addressed mobility of the workers within these industries,
whether there were opportunities for advancement, barriers
to advancement, differences between unionized and non-unionized
workplaces, and wage inequities.
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Environmental Justice
Academy 2010
by Omonigho
Oiyemhonlan, Stanford University, DataCenter Summer Intern
The EJ Camp
Intern Team: Nicholas Cragoe, Omonigho Oiyemhonlan, and
Rebecca Godefroy with Miho Kim.
On September 11 & 12, the DataCenter hosted it third
annual research training academy, and first research academy
focused on environmental justice. The academy had an amazing
turnout with participants from local organizations such
as: Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Youth United
for Community Action, Greenaction, Pacific Institute,
and the Winnemem Wintu tribe.
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Click here to read the article
Miho, DataCenter at Nonprofit Day 2010
On Tuesday, August 31, CompassPoint hosted its 23rd Annual
Nonprofit Day. Our Executive Director Miho Kim opened
for keynote speaker, Peter Bratt, and shared DataCenter's
leadership transition history during the plenary panel.
Listen to the stories yourself!
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Miho's introduction to keynote speech (mp3)
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Miho's speech at the plenary panel (mp3)
- Miho speaks at the 13-minute mark.
On September 24th, DataCenter will
also present a workshop titled, Democratizing Research:
How To Use Participatory Research to Tap the Existing
Knowledge in your Community. Past responses to the
workshop have been overwhelming positive. Here's what
some of those participants have said about the workshop:
"All of the materials
will be incredibly valuable! Also the crockpot analogy
is super helpful! Having the tools to think through designing
a research project is what I needed!"
"Great discussions
and intriguing visuals. I liked how the whiteboard was
used throughout the conversation."
"It was a great workshop
~ the most valuable for me was the elements of research
and the starting your research project checklist."
"[The workshop had]
a lot of structure on how to gather, process, and deliver
the message - tailored to a specific audience."
"Case studies were
really helpful/concrete. Also the crockpot analogy was
a great way to think about tools/methods."
Follow the link below to learn more about the
workshop and how you can register. We hope to see you
there!
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Click here to view the description
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Upcoming Trainings & Events
ReGeneration:
Research Legacies Moving Forward, Dunsmuir-Hellman
Estate, November 10, Oakland, CA
Internship
Spotlight
with Summer Intern Andrew Mayersohn
 "I
enjoyed putting some of my econometric skills to
use analyzing the Sustaining Organizing Survey dataset."
"I got a lot more
familiar with SPSS working on the Sustaining Organizing
Survey. I discovered many useful databases and resources
for researching donors, corporations, politicians,
etc.
I got better at organizing, summarizing, and distilling
research."
Interested
in a DataCenter internship? Students of color are
strongly encouraged to apply. Click
here to learn more about our Internship Program
today! »
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