WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Pearl River The impact of the extralegal blitzkrieg on federal funding and governmental programs by Trump and Musk has been devastating in the US and abroad. In the US, we still have the opportunity to resist and express solidarity and empathy for the pain of others, but that’s a privilege that many will not …
New Orleans A friend and comrade shared an email with me last week on the advice from philanthropic foundations for nonprofits in the wake of the across-the-board attacks and funding freezes announced by Trump for the federal government. The headline condensed the painful truth in a nutshell, blaring that “Foundations Turn Mostly Speechless …
San Francisco No question that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have made a ton of money from their various businesses. Both go up and down on the list of richest people in the world, sometime first, but always in the conversation with a gazillion billions each. But, as the song goes, “money …