WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsManchester A lot changes in eighteen months. I was in Manchester for the first time as our new chapter of ACORN in the United Kingdom was organizing in July 2018. I found the city pretty impressive, though didn’t get to see much of it in a quick …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsManchester The “long tail” is a tech-marketing concept that pundits and futurists promote with some enthusiasm. The heart of it is that some businesses, especially enabled by the internet and the Amazon world view, could make money on small, niche products, even at low sale volumes, almost …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsManchester This is a classic organizing problem, but also in some ways an equally ubiquitous problem in all of life’s endeavors. In short, with fixed resources, including people, money, time, and distance, how does an organization respond to the increasing demand by people for organizing assistance and …