New Orleans The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) headed by Aaron Dorfman issued a report this week calling on reforms in giving by donors and foundations based on an extensive survey of the practices of 800 grant makers over a 3 year period. Foundations seem to have gotten a flying “F” grade …
Month: March 2009
Shakarpur Domestic Women’s Federation
New Orleans Another report from Dharmendra Kumar of progress in beginning a new organization of informal workers in Delhi, this time located in Shakarpur. It’s a pleasure to share this report from the field of a small but significant step forward. A meeting of ACORN International Domestic Women’s Federation was held in Shakarpur of East …
Rocks in the Road
New Orleans Steven Greenhouse, the ace labor reporter for the Times and perhaps the last of that dying breed, in an article about the current love-fest between the Obama Administration and organized labor, quoted business sources indicting the Senators that corporate America is targeting in order to deny passage of Employee Free Choice to …