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Monthly Notes, Organization Trends
Briefly Noted, July 2016: Get out the vote efforts and political correctness on campus
"Briefly Noted" is part of Organization Trends. For the full PDF, click here. The Center for Popular Democracy and its 501(c)(4) so-called “dark money” arm, the Center for Popular…
by Matthew Vadum on July 18, 2016

Foundation Watch
Partisan Donors Hiding Under Charity’s Banner
See article PDF in Foundation Watch. Few Americans realize it is legal for foundations to fund, and public charities to conduct, voter registration and “get out the vote” drives.  The…
by Tom Johnson on October 19, 2015

Foundation Watch
The Democrats’ Mystery Man
(PDF here) Fred Eychaner is one of the most powerful political players and tycoons you’ve never heard of. Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, collected $250,000 when she…
by Barbara Joanna Lucas on September 3, 2015

Foundation Watch
The “Vast Left-wing Conspiracy”
This special issue of Foundation Watch updates our previous profiles of the Democracy Alliance published in December 2006, January 2008, and December 2008. Read the PDF here. Summary:  The…
by Matthew Vadum on October 6, 2014

Organization Trends
Attacking ALEC
See PDF here. Summary:   The American Legislative Exchange Council has long worked to improve government at the state level by limiting it to its proper roles and by preventing…
by Alexander J. Kroll on December 5, 2013

Foundation Watch
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
(PDF here) The Nathan Cummings Foundation is yet another philanthropy whose original donor was able to live the American dream and create great wealth through the free market.  But…
by Jonathan M. Hanen on December 2, 2013

Organization Trends
ACORN International
(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…
by Michael Volpe on October 2, 2013

Organization Trends
Community Organizers in Charge: Three who pack a political punch
(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…
by John Gizzi on September 1, 2013

Organization Trends
The other IRS scandal
CRC president Terrence Scanlon has an oped in today's Washington Times (PDF version here) The other IRS scandal: The tax man can’t find…
by CRC Staff on August 22, 2013

Organization Trends
Catalist for Victory
See PDF here. Supposedly nonpartisan nonprofits on the Left and their union allies have exploited the latest “microtargeting” technology as they’ve worked feverishly to elect Democrats. The…
by Neil Maghami on November 1, 2012