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".
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 …
Pearl River The Economist is a conservative magazine masking as liberal, which underlines how confusing the liberal designation in politics is these days. Nonetheless, an editorial of sorts entitled “Start Writing Checks” under a cutline saying “charity” surprised me. They were coming down foursquare in favor of philanthropists, largely the megarich, their foundations and giving …