Charitable foundations want to improve life in poor neighborhoods. So do community organizers. So why don’t more philanthropists put their dollars behind the grassroots?
Big corporations and developers reap major subsidies from the city, but their service staffs make starvation wages. Now a wave of organizing campaigns is trying to change the equation.
An alliance of community groups kicks off a new tax-break accountability campaign with a protest in front of the New York Stock Exchange, which won a $1 billion subsidy to…
The city’s Voter Assistance Commission was founded to boost dismal city voter registration rates–but starved for resources, it can do little more than stand by and watch as election day…
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