Los Angeles David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Rev. Martin Luther King, made some important points that are worth worry about the King papers in an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times on Friday. If you’ve missed the backstory on this, King’s family has swirled in controversy for years based on their …
Category: Organizer Training
Thoughts on Tajikistan
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 …
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 …