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 I ran home for a minute yesterday to pick up a sweater after the rain brought a cool front into New Orleans. The phone rang. I picked it up, there was silence and then the caller disconnected. I figured it was a bad robo-dial. A minute later there was another call. The caller …
New Orleans While I was out of the country it seems Paul Rice, the CEO of FairTrade USA, came to speak at one of the local colleges, Tulane University, as part of a promo for a new department on civic engagement and social entrepreneurship there. He seems to have argued that “profitability and sustainability were …
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 …