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With JPMorgan Chase & Co. providing the money and Facebook providing the voting platform (Facebook users logged on to vote and were encouraged to become "fans" of their favorite charities), 100 organizations—including our very own PBHA—emerged as the cream of the crop among small, local charities. Emily M. Parrott '09, a PBHA nonprofit management fellow, told us that PBHA is the only charity out of the top 100 to serve the Cambridge and greater Boston areas. Starting Jan. 15, the association will be competing in another round of voting for the grand prize: a cool...
PBHA plans to use the funds to match donations made to its Summer Urban Program, which is comprised of 12 camps run by Harvard undergraduates for low-income youth in the community. When voting for charities opened to 350 million Facebook users in early November, the first person to cast a vote for PBHA out of 500,000 other local charities was local high school student Philip Chu, who has attended SUP camps since the age of six and has recently served as a junior counselor for SUP's Chinatown Adventure program...
...many think of cooperatives as a small-scale hippie mainstay, the Mondragon Corp. is huge, hard-nosed business-wise and successful; in 2008, with Spain's economy in the doldrums, MCC's income rose 6%, to 16.8 billion euros. The Mondragon Corp. maintains its commitment to one-worker, one-vote democratic governance through a complex, carefully honed organizational structure in which the corporation serves as a kind of metacooperative for the individual companies. Through representatives and resources drawn from the larger network, it provides support for planning, research and generation funding for new businesses...
...Obama movement has gone missing. The 2009 elections in New Jersey and Virginia were initially talked about by Obama allies as a test of the President's organizing power. By the time the votes were counted, however, with Republicans winning two Democratic seats, no one at the White House wanted to claim any responsibility. That's because the remarkable enthusiasm that greeted Obama's victory in 2008, with record turnout among independents, blacks and young people, had gone away, along with the minions of Obama organizers. "I think that we all thought, and I think that the President thought, that...
...about the job of the Majority Leader is that it is like carrying bullfrogs in a wheelbarrel. He never knows when one of his members is going to hop out, and unless he is sure he has all 60 of them aboard at the precise moment of the vote, he can't get anything done. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...