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• ACORN loses funding from many Bay Area backers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  The troubles of the nations largest community organizing organization, ACORN, are being felt in the liberal Bay Area, where there is normally no shortage of supporters of the groups efforts to provide free tax help and other services to low-income residents and people of color. Amid allegations that employees of the ...
  15 hours ago

• You Need To Be More Careful With Your Secrets

  
  All The News That Fits — Authority: 121
  So much to write about, and so little time.  Where do I start?  ClimateGate or Acorn’s document dump?  Both involve public airing of documents the organizations involved didn’t want anyone to see - probably because in both cases we are now witnessing the undoing of utter frauds. It’s almost a shame these ...
  2 days ago

• Memphis Giveaways to Developers

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 128
  Memphis Even though I wasn’t speaking at the University of Memphis about Citizen Wealth until Monday evening, it was worth flying in the predawn on Sunday to be able to take advantage of Professor Ken Reardon’s offer to meet with twenty community leaders who wanted to talk over dinner about how to push Memphis ...
  4 days ago

• Hard to Love Our Neighbors If Were Afraid to Get to Know Them

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  Saturday I read an op-ed piece that caught my attention. It did so because our neighborhoods, our country are getting more and more used to being told what we should be afraid of, that we no longer work at being community.
  1 week ago

• LA Spot.Us Announces Managing Editor, Ramps Up for Community Funded Journalism

  
  Spot Us - "Community Funded Reporting" — Authority: 554
  LA.Spot.Us , the community funded journalism project recently launched in Southern California through collaboration with USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism, has announced the appointment of veteran journalist Anh Do as managing editor of the site. A second-generation journalist, Do has worked as vice president of ...
  1 week ago

• Political Will and Respecting Citizens

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  Interesting further reaction from Dallas Morning News on the aftermath of Unify South Dallas meeting on this past Tuesday.The meeting with the Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert was, at the very least, a very healthy and significant show of respect for the citizens of south Dallas. It also represents the emergence of new, ...
  1 week ago

• Building Wealth

  
  Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog — Authority: 128
  Baltimore The community organizing class at the University of Maryland School of Social Work had gone chapter by chapter through Citizen Wealth , so their questions were specific and pointed as they seized on themes that meant something to  them or tried to put their arms around issues that often slip all of our ...
  1 week ago

• Unify South Dallas: Getting a Place at the Table

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  Unify South Dallas meeting on Tuesday was still another successful and significant expression of citizenship in an area of the city that gets condemned for not caring. What made it even more successful is the fact that this was not another meeting of the citizens with the developers, city staff and other officials. ...
  1 week ago

• Letter to Columnist

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Sent this letter to a columnist with the hope she will start bringing this subject up as Joseph Farah and others have. This letter is in response to Obama’s bowing to leaders of other countries and running down and apologizing for America’s supposed evils. It is also to make us here at home feel shame and look ...
  1 week ago

• 21 Burning Nonprofit/NGO Sector Questions

  
  Bricks and Mortar — Authority: 119
  This was a great post that I found on the Nonprofit Local blog.  It is an excellent set of questions to discuss with your staff or students who are considering a nonprofit career.  Check out the post here. Posted in Affordable Housing, Community Development, Community Economic Development, Community Organizing, ...
  1 week ago

• The Future of Wade Rathke and ACORN, Part III: Wade Rathke Wants to Rule the World

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Yesterday, I finished the third part of my interview with Wade Rathke . I felt, correctly, or not that after spending several hours with Rathke, that I was starting to understand Rathke, his vision, and his goals. So, I tried to make these questions as pointed and interesting as possible. 1) What can the local, ...
  1 week ago

• Out My Front Door

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  This photo isnt so clear - taken with my phone from across the street and from an upstairs window. It doesnt capture very well the long line of men, women and children extending down the sidewalk to the left from our front door all the way to the corner, but they are there.I wanted to capture the scene and the moment ...
  1 week ago

• Money laundering and the CCHD by Stephanie Block

  
  http://fratres.wordpress.com — Authority: 423
  The term “money laundering” can mean several things. One meaning refers to a patently illegal activity in which stolen money is moved through a legitimate financial system in such a way that the casual observer would think everything is on the up-and-up. Another meaning for the term refers to a sprawling network ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Care Reform & Health Disparities: A Spanish Forum for the Latino Community

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 465
  This is another blog by David Molina , who serves on the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs: On Sat., Nov 7th, 2009, huddled in the most unorthodox of locations, Tienda La Tapatia , a Mexican grocery and bakery in Gresham, Oregon, over 60+ Latino community members gathered around to have a frank conversation ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Future of Wade Rathke and ACORN, Part II: Tea Parties and Protests

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Last Tuesday, I had round two with former ACORN Chief Organizer and current head of Community Organizations International , Wade Rathke . This interview was a lot more sweeping. It ranged from Rathke’s philosophy , his philosophy on organizing, his views on the tea parties, to all sorts of issues surrounding ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN–The LA Story, Part II: ‘We knew we were gonna put in Obama.’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  I was driving to my local OSH hardware store in West L.A. yesterday to buy some tools for the house where I spotted an ACORN rally across the street at some FOX studio.  After buying some supplies, I went into my car to get the brand new hand-held HD video camera I had purchased just the night before for an upcoming ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nonprofit Career Month

  
  Bricks and Mortar — Authority: 119
  As I am finishing up my nonprofit management course, I found this new website – Nonprofit Career Month .  There is a blog, podcast and links to state based nonprofit associations and resources.  This project is powered through the work of Idealist.org the first place people go to find a nonprofit job or ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEA’s recommended reading: Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 443
  NEA, “ Recommended Reading: Saul Alinsky, The American Organizer ” An inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer! Saul Alinsky wrote the book on American radicalism – two books, in fact: a 1945 best-seller, “Reveille for Radicals” and “Rules for Radicals” ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN: The LA Story, Part I

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Today I received a phone call from my friend, Gary H., who said that ACORN was staging a protest outside the Fox News studios in West Los Angeles. I called someone at the Fox News bureau to find out that there were no protesters there, but quickly realized ACORN had gotten that wrong too. They were protesting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unify South Dallas: Getting a Place at the Table

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 423
  Unify South Dallas meeting on Tuesday was still another successful and significant expression of citizenship in an area of the city that gets condemned for not caring. What made it even more successful is the fact that this was not another meeting of the citizens with the developers, city staff and other officials. ...
  2 weeks ago

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