New Orleans Normally, I would keep quiet about something like this since it is still so half-baked and almost pre-organizational, but our little first committee meeting to organize the New Orleans chapter of the so-called Secret Society of Creative Philanthropy got some interesting queries when I posted about the meeting on Facebook that I feel …
Author: wade
Alto Arizona
New Orleans Alto Arizona is the Spanish. STOP ARIZONA is the English. We need to join together to try and stop Arizona from trying its darnedest to enact the most repressive, terroristic, anti-immigrant legislation in the country. If Governor Brewer signs this legislation, it turns racial profiling from a tendency to an legal obligation in …
Predatory Microlending Schemes
New Orleans I have never been a huge fan of the widely touted claims of microlenders that small loans – debt by any definition – are a successful poverty reduction strategy. At best they are an “employment acquisition” scheme for some select people too often within the informal or home-based economy. At worst they are …