ACORN loses funding from big foundations

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Permalink Reply by teresa on October 3, 2009 at 9:04pm

washington post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation stopped making grants to ACORN in early 2009, according to spokeswoman Sue Lin Chong. The Casey foundation gave an average of $270,000 a year to ACORN. The foundation saw good results from the grants and believes the funding was used appropriately, according to Cho.
The Ford Foundation, which has given nearly $2 million, suspended funding for ACORN and its affiliate organizations about a year ago because of concerns about inadequate financial controls and procedures, according to spokeswoman Fiona R. Guthrie
One local group said it has no plans to change the terms of a $50,000 grant awarded this summer. The Collaborative for Education Organizing, part of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, sponsored a project aimed at organizing parents of District public high school students to advocate for change in the classroom.
They include the Needmor Fund, a family foundation based in Toledo that gave about $150,000 a year to local organizations affiliated with ACORN. The fund suspended grantmaking in June 2008 because of the alleged embezzlement. It resumed its funding in September after ACORN took corrective action, said Dave Beckwith, Needmor's executive director.

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Permalink Reply by Jelly Bean on October 3, 2009 at 9:28pm

The ACORN Tree Has Many Branches to Hang Dollars On Under a Variety of Names. Does Anyone Have a List...?

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Permalink Reply by ronald robbins on October 3, 2009 at 10:22pm

we all a great deal to all who have shown the truth about acorn. of course this is just the fip of all the lies,dirty dealings across this country..we will have to watch congress very close to stop their dirty tricks,they work at night and in closed rooms.there is a lot of money still to be found.and stopped..

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Permalink Reply by Patriotmary on October 4, 2009 at 4:14pm

Here is a link to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?. On page 74 is a list of the 361 entities that compose the ACORN COUNCIL. http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/media/pdfs/20090723ACORNRepo...

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