Then there is the issue of profits: "So far we have made profits only on a minority of projects, and often pay for the last project with the new project," he said.
In Los Angeles, she directed the Liberty Hill Foundation and served as a United Way official; in both positions, she helped channel millions of dollars from well-heeled Hollywooders into minority neighborhood projects dealing with gang violence, low-income housing, and environmental hazards.
While a minority of projects have a monitoring and evaluation framework, less than a quarter have undertaken evaluation.
Although not always clear, it seems a very small minority of projects eschewed the model of targeted clinics altogether, and instead provided an integrated service package for FSWs within general population health services [ 42, 110- 125].
Although contact with the wider FSW community was mainly through peer educators, a minority of projects employed research staff or field workers specifically to approach FSWs and male clients [ 40, 41, 48, 56- 66, 82, 131].
The Minority Television Project did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
The association began an advice service in 2000, transforming into RAD Legal Services in July 2007, when Wilks, who has been deaf since birth, qualified as a solicitor and the £500,000 Big Lottery Fund deaf minority advice project commenced.
A recent issue of Cultural Survival, a magazine that covers indigenous people and ethnic minorities, described projects to bring the Web to communities as varied as the reindeer-herding Sami of Scandinavia and northern Russian, the aboriginal peoples of the Northwest Territories in Canada, the ethnic minorities of Burma and native Hawaiians.
In the largely minority housing project where I grew up in the 1970's, race was not something mutable, like a freckle or a hairstyle; it defined who looked like whom, who was allowed to be in the group -- and who wasn't.
Dr. Anne MacLachlan, senior researcher for the University of California, Berkeley's Minority Ph.D. Project, said industry generally does a much better job of organizing workshops for employees to improve their working relationships.
