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/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 …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01192020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam A housing conference took place in a workers’ center built in the heart of a neighborhood in the 1930s in the midst of the worldwide depression that the conveners thought underscored the possibilities even in the midst of the current European affordable housing crisis. Guest presentations …