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Posted on 10/03/2009 3:30:30 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The liberal political organizing group ACORN, battered by the release of embarrassing videos and allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud, has also been losing support from several major foundations.
The Ford Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Bank of America have stopped funding the group and its affiliates over the past year and a half.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a network that helps low-income families with housing, voter registration and other issues, receives about 10 percent of its $25 million annual budget from federal grants, according to Brian Kettenring, deputy director of national operations. The rest comes from foundations, membership dues and private donations.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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When will that guy start losing funding?
GOOD!
If the Washington ComPost reports it I’m naturally suspicious. It could be a smokescreen mea culpa to get the light & heat off of them while still raking in money through a number of back doors.
Note the Ford Foundation as most have been taken over by libtards. Conservative have real jobs.
Oh My.
Good haPPens.
bttt..Thank-you Breitbart, Hannah, James and Glenn!
Henry Ford must be spinning in his grave.
Better pass ACORN a lube gun while it’s under all those buses.
Not to worry—ossama obammy will take care of his vote getting machine!! WITH OUR MONEY
It demonstrates how slip-shod these big foundations are.
They will probably fund their front groups directly
Another case of an organization that looked great on paper (hey, we help the poor!) but stank in real life.
I wonder how many of the foundations gave grants as a result of extortion, whether overt or covert. Now that ACORN has been exposed for the corrupt entity that it is, the charities have been granted cover should they not wish to continue with their support.
And none of them were good stewards of their Foundation’s money. What was it exactly that blinded them to what was really the agenda behind these groups.
I can tell you firsthand that I have had to review ACORN grants for a religious organization and, never having even heard of ACORN before, upon reading the grant request I understood immediately what the agenda was - it was a front operation for Democrat liberal political organizations under the disguise of seeking to reform societal structures to eliminate poverty. The only poverty they were eliminating that I could see was their own.
Their “community organizing” was campaign Obama and any other left wing democrat politican. We denied their grant request before any of this recent scandal ever hit the airwaves. Thank God for people like Glenn Beck who have alerted us to these frauds operating in the Democrat party.
And to think none of this was important enough to report on just weeks ago.
How about two big ones?
The TIDES FOUNDATION!
OBAMA’S PERSONAL SNAKEOIL THUGOCRACY!
I for one believe you have a very good point. The more EXPOSURE of ACORN’s nefarious practice, the more freedom for their victims, of which effects us all one way or another.
How Ford Funds the Left
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 15, 2003
One of the most disturbing realities in American society today is that the Ford Foundation...finances the far Left. Ford is especially financially generous, for instance, to radical entities such as the anti-War, neo-Com movement. It also provides substantial grants to the Tides Foundation and its sister non-profits: The Tides Center... (snip)
As a direct effort to fund the anti-war movement, Tides established an Iraq Peace Fund which has granted about a half-million dollars to various anti-war groups, including MoveOn and the radical leftist National Council of Churches.
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=18201
Some kind of a Soros outfit should step in any minute to make up the difference.
Too bad for APORN.
The criminal enterprise’s head jackass
Their very name shows an issue orientation rather than a charitable orientation. They promised “reform now” (who’da thunk they meant leftward???) and they delivered.
Need to watch and see if the money is poured into other groups.
Don’t forget one of the family members of the Ford family is a big zero population guy.
You are so right. This was pre-Roe:
Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971
Family Planning.
Foundation support for family planning in the developing countries is described on pages 68, 72, and 79. For assistance to family-planning agencies in the United States, the Foundation granted an $850,000 supplement to the Planned Parenthood Federation for its Center for Family Planning Program Development. With the expansion of Federal funding for local programs, the center has become the principal agency advising state and local councils on organizing and obtaining funds for family-planning programs
http://www.fordfound.org/archives/item/1971/text/85
ACORNS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
(1) ACORN's man in the Obama White House is longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard. He holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush's White House. He's the President’s fixer and the man who gets ACORN projects and money. Gaspard once worked for ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis.
(2) Patrick Gaspard’s brother Michael Gaspard works for The Advance Group. Michael Gaspard works for ACORN’s registered lobbying organization and with ACORN’s national spokesman Bertha Lewis. Michael apparently keeps a lower profile than his brother. He does not appear on lobbyist disclosures for The Advance Group NY State. Nonetheless, he works there. Ms. Lewis’s contacts list confirms Michael Gaspard’s employment there.
(3) ACORN Shaun Donovan. Mr. Donovan is HUD Secy. Before that, Mr. Donovan was NYC Commissioner of Dept of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD)---where Donovan worked on affordable housing initiatives----projects right up ACORN’s alley.
(4) ACORN Karine Jean-Pierre is WH liaison for Dept of Labor (headed by latino agitator Hilda Solis). Karine once worked for John Edwards (vertical or horizontal?). She left there to work for Cong Anthony Weiner, then became Barack Obama’s regional political director.
The web of connections from ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis straight into the White House, out the other door into HUD and the Dept of Labor (headed by latino agitator Hilda Solis), then circle back to ACORN’s lobbying operation.
ACORNS EVERYWHERE Senate Finance Committee Study
ACORN comprises a mind-boggling 94 different affiliates, that amounts to "a big shell game," a biting Senate Finance Committee study shows. The study, by the staff of Iowa Republican Charles Grassley, reveals four ACORN charity groups give more than half their revenue to taxable entities that engage in "impermissible lobbying and political activity." ACORN and it’s subsidiaries for decades have moved taxpayer money into their own pockets and into the left-wing Marxist machine.
Sen Charles Grassley's documents show leaders of ACORN community groups transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money-----meant for the poor---- to parts of the group that have political (and sometimes profit-making) missions.
Sen Grassley's documents indicate that ACORN's tax-exempt groups----along with its tangled web of allied organizations---- used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates.
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It was taken over a long time ago while John D. Rockefeller was still alive.
Well done.
Thank you!
In this case they intended for the org to be stinky right from the start. It has always been a front org for the Dimwit party.
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LOL!
Nice work potlatch!
ACORNS roasting on an open fire...
That’s soothing and conforting.
Thanks, LOL is right, see that fancy artwork on the mouths?
I had some different thoughts about captions for that but stuck to the safe one.
[ACORNS roasting on an open fire...]
LOL, your thoughts were nicer than mine. I thought in terms of nuts!
Thanks L.J.!
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LOL!
Glenn Beck & El Rushbo would get a kick out of those
There are two different ones, I’m sure you see that. I wanted them to jump in different time. Could even change timing to a third one as three look best.
Shame on the Ford Foundation... Shame on the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Bank of America... What were they thinking
It will be interesting to see what fascists stay on board funding the criminal organization.
I’ve seen your recent graphics, and I say BRAVA!
You done good, girl! ;o)
Thank you DC, I appreciate your comments!
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