New Orleans We visited with an old comrade from the earliest days of ACORN between 1970-73. She had been one of the first VISTA volunteers that I was able to repurpose as organizers on our first organizing drives. She reminded me that she had also opened up the Fort Smith office and launched …
Category: ACORN
Nonprofit Hospitals Need New Regulations
Nairobi Here’s the fiction: nonprofit hospitals are dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of their community, regardless of income. Because of this fiction, the IRS grants them a tax-exemption worth approximately $28 billion per year. Here’s the fact: they don’t act that way, especially the larger nonprofit hospital chains. ACORN and our partners, Local …
Making Veterans Day for All Veterans
Pearl River With wars in the news all around the world in Ukraine, Israel, Myanmar, Sudan, Armenia, and elsewhere, veterans were on my mind. Since war is so important to nation states, how do they really handle their veterans? This has always been a question for me. Some of my earliest organizing experiences were …