New Orleans In April we responded to a question from a non-profit in Washington, D.C. that was doing training under various contracts with the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID). They honestly and truly seemed to want someone from our very active and mass based tradition to join them in providing training to a …
Category: Organizer Training
Program Officers are People, Too?
Santa Fe Chris Sturgis is an experienced hand at the fundraising rodeo. She has been a program officer at Mott in Michigan, Omidyar in California, and is still working on that side of the street here and there. She offered to do a session at our Mid-Year Management Meeting on how foundations really work. This …
Zephyr’s Rules
Santa Fe Every year about this time the supervisory level staff of the whole ACORN family of organizations meets in a mid-year management meeting (MYM) to evaluate progress over the first six months of the year, think about where we are going, and retool for the final six months of the year. A highlight of …