Memphis It’s interesting to watch the Washington two-step ignited by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s pushback against outside groups trying to mobilize against her progressive advocacy and the by catch of other fish squirming in her net. To refresh your memory when the Third Way, a group of more conservative sometime Democrats, pushed against her more populist …
Category: Philanthropy
Charitable Deduction Reforms
Houston Yesterday in talking with Brian Johns, the organizing director of Virginia Organizing on “Wade’s World” on KABF about his forthcoming article with Ellen Ryan for Social Policy called “Leadership Development is Not a Deliverable,” we were trying to follow the curiously circuitous paths of private philanthropy as it moves from grants supporting community organizing’s …
Environmental Funders Backing Losing Top Down Strategy
New Orleans Somehow I had missed the report when it first came out, but Robert Nunn in Little Rock connected me to Peter Montague’s explosive summary in The Huffington Post laying a huge weight for the failure of the environmental movement to win anything of major significance in recent decades squarely on the shoulders of big …