(Organization Trends, October 2013, PDF here) Community organizer Wade Rathke created ACORN and watched it grow to hundreds of affiliated groups around the country, until scandals forced the network…
(PDF here) Though it’s unclear its original donor would have supported such a course, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation long worked with nonprofits like the ACLU to re-shape federal…
(PDF here) “Community organizer” is a term few Americans had heard until one was elected president in 2008. Now it’s a badge of honor and a passport to the…
(PDF here) Donors who crusade under the radar for campaign finance reform still fund activist groups like Public Campaign. And those activist groups still fight for a panoply of…
Warren Buffett has allocated $2 billion worth of stock in his massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, making this the largest contribution he has…
(PDF here) For over half a century, the Ford Foundation has quietly worked to turn the nation’s law schools into agents of Sixties-style “social change.” Other donors like Carnegie,…
(Organization Trends, June 2013) (PDF here) The American Bar Association and the trial lawyers’ trade group (the American Association for Justice) are well known as bastions of…
(PDF here) Founded in 1930 by breakfast cereal tycoon W.K. Kellogg with the goal of improving the lives of impoverished children, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation today funds…