Lima When people do not meet regularly despite all of the communications on phone calls, emails, and websites, it is exciting to learn more when hearing people report on progress face to face, and that was the highlight of our international meetings as people when around the room Suyapa Amador was able to report on …
Category: ACORN
Goldman Sachs and South Shore Bank
Cusco If ACORN represented the “gold standard in advocacy,” as I once heard a Gates Foundation program officer say to me about the work of New Orleans ACORN post-Katrina, then South Shore Bank in Chicago held a similar position in the community development world. One of our old friends from Little Rock, Bob Nash, who …
Preventing the ACORN Tragedy
Chicago First in a session with Kim Bobo and her talented staff at Interfaith Worker Justice and then with the great immigration rights organizers, Josh Hoyt and Lawrence Benito and some of their staff at Illinois Council of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, it was only a matter of time that we stopped talking about Citizen …