New York Private foundations have billions and billions of dollars worth of assets. Individual and corporate wealth is given shelter and tax exemptions because of the public benefit of their operations to health, education or some part of the common and public good. That’s the law and the quid pro quo for offset in …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Changing Habitat
New Orleans One of the “laws” of organizing I have often repeated to new organizers, frequently to blank stares, is that in organizing, “the beginnings prejudice the ends.” In English that is supposed to mean that the organizational structure and form often predetermine function. In simpler terms it is very, very hard to ever …
Grassley and Non-Profit Hospitals
New Orleans ACORN has been hammering away at non-profit, tax exempt hospitals for years about the level of charity care that they are providing, as well as their tactics in trying to collect money from the unfortunate families needing their help by using liens on their property and all kinds of tactics as if they …