Toronto The board meeting for ACORN Canada was fascinating. Leaders were in Toronto from the local groups here as well as from the newly organized units in Ottawa in three different neighborhoods and from Surrey and New West around Vancouver. It’s always interesting how much can be learned when the leaders gather. ACORN …
Month: July 2007
Foundation Failures
New York Private foundations have billions and billions of dollars worth of assets. Individual and corporate wealth is given shelter and tax exemptions because of the public benefit of their operations to health, education or some part of the common and public good. That’s the law and the quid pro quo for offset in …
Updates and Catch-ups
New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …