Ocean Springs Having read the papers with a nice light rain outside as I was stumbling around in the pre-dawn, I found an intriguing posting by Stephen Windwalker about Kindle books on his Facebook status update. He’s a stone cold Kindle fanatic and seems to be one of the worlds’ premier experts on Kindle …
Category: Community Organizing
Money Guard
New Orleans A colleague forwarded me an interesting “citizen wealth” strategy for lower income families to protect small resources: having a “money guard.” The P2P Foundation (peer to peer) included a piece on their website with the following story: Money guarding: “If you get a fairly decent chunk of money, you give it to …
Leader Thinking
Chicago The board of the Organizers’ Forum set aside an entire day for what turned out to be a fascinating dialogue on leadership development and training for community and labor organizations. There were a host of challenges, but in sharing the practices of various networks including DART, WORC, PICO, ACORN Canada, Acorn International, SEIU, and …