Houston The annual Year End / Year Begin meeting of all of the ACORN family of organizations was dislocated, but the tribes had all gathered — the purple shirts of Local 880, the welcomed addition of the New York Working Families Party, all of the A-CLOC and Wal-Mart related organizers, and obviously everyone drawing a …
Category: Organizer Training
Adult Education for Organizers
Chicago The Organizers’ Forum board facing the impossibility of getting hotel rooms in New Orleans (we tried!) decamped to Chicago for our board meeting continuing the post-Katrina dislocations. We took advantage of our visit to invite some organizers from the windy city to brave the snow and come visit with us and catch everyone up …
Measuring Results
Hartford Professor Don Green from Yale made the point in a dry, but dramatic, manner: do the tests, make them random, and then let the data speak. He was talking about measuring the results of ACORN in get out the vote efforts in Phoenix, Bridgeport, Detroit, and elsewhere. For the money and the impact there …