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 …
Category: Philanthropy
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 …
Donors Muscling Democracy in Detroit
New Orleans No matter how jaded we might be about the ways and means that the deep pockets of philanthropies muscle up and try to force their will on desperate grant seekers, the article in the Wall Street Journal by Matthew Dolan, “Revival Bid Pits Donor Against Detroit,” was a shocking tale of arrogance, elitism, …