Issue #135

When Mel Martinez announced his candidacy for the Senate from his home state of Florida, it was inevitable that he would give a positive spin to his record as secretary […]

While the media looks fondly at President Reagan’s accomplishments two decades ago, they all but ignore the devastating affects his policies left on the poor.

It is widely believed that homeownership is the best way for low-income families to accumulate wealth and enter the middle class. There are reasons for questioning the wisdom of this […]

Families with nowhere else to go often wind up staying at a modest row house on a side street off Kensington Avenue, a downtrodden, drug-ridden thoroughfare that gives this section […]

In a new book, Root Shock, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove proposes that displacement is the problem that the 21st century must resolve. Her definition of root shock is “the traumatic […]

From the Frontline to the Sideline (of society) The federal government reported that veterans make up 9 percent of the U.S. population but 23 percent of the homeless population. Male […]

One of your staff is attending a party unrelated to your organization’s business when an excellent fundraising opportunity presents itself. She is among a group of strangers, and not surprisingly, […]

Dynamics of Organizing: Building Power by Developing the Human Spirit, by Shel Trapp. (Self published.) 2003. 144 pp. $20 (paperback.) Available from the National Training and Information Center, 312-243-3035. There […]

When I first became involved in the community development world, I immersed myself in the literature to learn as much as I could about the field and its players. I […]