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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".

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For the Rich Results are Bah Humbug

Ideas and Issues Organizing November 27, 2010November 27, 2010 by wade

New Orleans I was fascinated by an article in today’s Times about something called Charity Navigator, which would like to influence the way donors give by herding them into a “financial” or “strictly business” evaluation process.  The piece was about their attempt to retool “…to add evaluations of a nonprofit’s accountability and transparency to its …

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Poor Give More

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues International May 25, 2009May 25, 2009 by wade

Ocean Springs The poor are more generous that the rich, and in fact the poorer you are, the more likely a larger portion of your income is given to others. For the poor experience drives empathy and action. For the rich it turns out that talk is in fact cheap. Quoting from Frank Greve of …

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