New Orleans I was fascinated by an article in today’s Times about something called Charity Navigator, which would like to influence the way donors give by herding them into a “financial” or “strictly business” evaluation process. The piece was about their attempt to retool “…to add evaluations of a nonprofit’s accountability and transparency to its …
Month: November 2010
Bankruptcy and Foreclosures
New Orleans In Phoenix this week 35 members of Advocates and Actions did an action on the new “field office” of Fannie Mae to a lame response despite camera crews from five stations whirring away. It was more heartening to read that the Justice Department was using the angle of its authority over bankruptcy law …
Hunger Strike for DREAM Act on Thanksgiving
New Orleans The DREAM Act is bumping and stumbling its way to a vote in the Senate to the quack of the lame ducks and the politics of desperation, but once again young people are showing muscle and grit to lead this movement. For the last two weeks more than a dozen students at the …