The Asian American Contractor Empowerment Project (AACEP) seeks to preserve and re-instate government contracting
affirmative action programs. The AACEP specifically seeks to strengthen the argument for the inclusion of Asian Americans in these programs.
The AACEP will accomplish these goals by increasing the number of Asian American business and community leaders who are able to promote and defend minority contracting programs. AACEP partners will be able to share expertise and best practices with each other on how to deal with challenges to affirmative action programs in their regions.
The Asian American Justice Center conceived the AACEP because public contracting affirmative action is still a necessary tool to ensure a fair playing field for Asian American contractors and other Asian American-owned small business enterprises. Without strong advocacy and limited remedies such as public contracting affirmative action, Asian American-owned businesses operate with many barriers to success.
The AACEP is a multi-year initiative supported in part by the Ford Foundation and is a project of the Asian American Justice Center and its affiliate, the
Asian American Institute in Chicago, Ill.
To join the AACEP, send an e-mail with the subject line “Partnership Request” to
aacep@advancingequality.org. You will then be sent a log-in and password to access a Partners Only information exchange forum.
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