(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…
Organizing for Access? Critics from left to right say President Obama’s newly incorporated 501(c)(4) community organizing group, Organizing for Action, has been selling access to the president through the group,…
President Obama has converted his campaign apparatus into a permanent in-your-face campaign aimed at furthering radical politics. Organizing for Action, a new 501(c)(4) advocacy group, will “play an active role”…
(PDF here) While the various pressure groups on the left all agree they want bigger and more intrusive government, they often squabble amongst themselves over the question…
(PDF here) The Applied Research Center has a benign-sounding name, but this community organizing group is a scrappy leader among new groups that use anti-racist rhetoric to…
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has created a new charity called the Democracy Fund in order to invest “in social entrepreneurs working to ensure that our political system is responsive to…
(PDF here) Formed in the midst of the nation’s struggle to guarantee equal rights to all Americans, regardless of race, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under…
President Obama’s cultivation of Chicago-based media mogul Fred Eychaner led to major contributions to the President’s re-election campaign, Bloomberg News reports. Eychaner was invited to the White House seven times…