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 …
Category: Philanthropy
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 …
Rethinking Social Investments: Unreasonable Institute
Toronto I’ve confessed before that after watching the dissolution of ACORN in the US, I’m now obsessed with self-sufficiency. Philanthropy is too risk adverse and governments are too political vulnerable to be stable funding sources for progressive work. All of which made me eagerly read the piece in the Business section of the New York …