The Eisenhower Foundation continues the work of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Riot Commission

Kerner Commission

The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide...

, formed after the 1960s riots in large cities) and the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (the National Violence Commission, formed after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy

It is a nonprofit organization, located in Washington, D.C.;the President and Chief Executive Officer is Alan Curtis, Ph.D.

Mission

The program aims at improving the status of the lower strata of American society, the most disadvantaged, by investigation and advocay.

There are five current programs:
five program models:

1. Youth Safe Haven/Police Mentoring Programs
2. Quantum Opportunities Programs for high school youth
3. Full-service community schools
4. Argus Education and Job Training
5. Reintegration of Previously Incarcerated Persons

Publications

• Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense: restoring America’s promise at home and abroad, edited by Alan Curtis, 2004
• The Millennium Breach
  The Millennium Breach
  The Millennium Breach was sponsored by the Eisenhower Foundation to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Kerner Report on March 1, 1998. The Kerner Report was released by the Kerner Commission, a committee established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 to investigate the causes of the 1967...
  
  : Richer, Poorer, and Racially Apart, by Alan Curtis
• Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, Edited by Fred R. Harris and Alan Curtis, 1998

External links

• Eisenhower Foundation Web Site
• http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/WashPostKernerProphecyMar1.pdf
• BostonSunGlobeKernerReport30.Mar1.pdf Kerner Report