New Orleans It is hard to explain how I stumbled on an organization with 6.5 million members, but in the modern world of high tech campaigning and low entry internet membership, it turns out to be easy to do, and that was the case for me and Avaaz.org when I was contacted by a Berlin-based, …
Category: Organizing
NLRB Bulletin Boards: E for Effort, F for Results
New Orleans The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a rule that would require companies to post on their bulletin boards a notice informing workers that they have the legal right to organize. Conservatives, strong adherents of a philosophical belief in “total war” when it comes to class issues, are crying like …
For the Rich Results are Bah Humbug
New Orleans I was fascinated by an article in today’s Times about something called Charity Navigator, which would like to influence the way donors give by herding them into a “financial” or “strictly business” evaluation process. The piece was about their attempt to retool “…to add evaluations of a nonprofit’s accountability and transparency to its …