Last month President Obama named former National Council of La Raza executive Cecilia Muñoz as his senior domestic policy advisor. Open borders advocate Muñoz replaces Melody Barnes who had announced…
Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros announced that criminal justice expert Christopher Stone will head his mammoth philanthropic network starting in July. He replaces Aryeh Neier, who is retiring at…
(Organization Trends, January 2012) (PDF here) Like other ex-presidents, Jimmy Carter wants to have a continuing impact on public affairs, and he has created…
I’ll be on “Follow the Money” with host Eric Bolling (Fox Business) at 10 o’clock Eastern this evening. The topic is, surprisingly, not ACORN. UPDATED NEXT DAY: Courtesy of George…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is demanding that the Obama administration investigate allegedly fraudulent fundraising practices that ACORN’s New York front group may have used…
Warren Buffett: A Wealthy Philanthropist with Some Bad Ideas By Martin Morse Wooster (Foundation Watch, November 2011, PDF here) In August, Warren Buffett, America’s second-richest man with…
(Organization Trends, November 2011, PDF here) Movement conservatives like to think ideas are important. They compile reading lists of books they have (or should have)…
Evidence is mounting that suggests that ACORN is paying people to participate in the Occupy Wall Street protests. The SEIU-funded Working Families Party, a front group for ACORN, placed a…
(Foundation Watch, October 2011, PDF here) Few outside the world of philanthropy have heard of the nearly 60 year old Arca Foundation but that doesn’t mean it…