New Orleans This is all getting to be heady stuff. We are not sure what it all means or whether or not it adds up to anything at the end of the day, but as long as it keeps Katrina in the mix, we can’t say “no,” just on the off chance it will bounce well. …
Category: Community Organizing
Hispanics Rising and the War Falling
New Orleans Simon Rosenberg of the New Democrat Network (NDN) is fast talking and to the point. He has done the pitch before and it is honed to a fine point. He had the board of the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) listening on the edge of their seats. His message when it boiled down was simple: …
Small World?
New Orleans Kenneth Wade, CEO of NeighborWorks, the Congressionally funded housing support program, had called out of the blue and invited me to breakfast to talk about ways that we could work together. When we said down, Kenneth said that before we started he wanted to mention that there were a couple of things that …