Mumbai Reena Desai has been heading up ACORN’s efforts in Mumbai for the last three months to build a grassroots campaign around the impacts of opening up Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail in India (www.indiafdiwatch.org) which would allow Wal-Mart, Shoprite, Metro, Carrefour, and other huge multi-nationals (MNC’s as they call them here) to entire …
Month: June 2006
Boy Scouts aren’t Honest?
Cincinnati Reading the paper on the plane my eye caught a piece about the Boy Scouts in north central Alabama. True confession — I was a boy scout — many people accuse me of being one to this day. My brother was a boy scout. My son was a boy scout. We weren’t just scouts, …
Program Officers are People, Too?
Santa Fe Chris Sturgis is an experienced hand at the fundraising rodeo. She has been a program officer at Mott in Michigan, Omidyar in California, and is still working on that side of the street here and there. She offered to do a session at our Mid-Year Management Meeting on how foundations really work. This …