Rock Creek Yes, I still read Katrina books, even as we are fast approaching the beginning of the 9th year since the storm on August 29, 2005. Having written one myself, I respect the small fraternity of writers who have tried with varying success to put their arms around the disaster and somehow wrestle lessons …
Category: ACORN
The New Medici’s: Private Support of Public Spaces
Little Rock The new Children’s Library in Little Rock, where the fundraiser was held, was something of a startling edifice planted in the lower income neighborhood that we used to call Woodrow to Pine and Oak Forest, only blocks from the old Highland Court housing project. There were amazing parts to the building. It had …
Crowdfunding for For-Profits
Little Rock I was lucky to be in Little Rock last night so that I could stop by the second annual “truth teller” award ceremony and fundraiser for the Arkansas Community Organizations, formerly Arkansas ACORN. It was fun to see old friends from many decades ago who were so important to ACORN’s work in Arkansas again. …