Word: woodson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Washington. Run by Robert L. Woodson, a black former social worker and previously a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Identifies self-help groups in the ghetto and inner city and helps link them -up with corporate funders and policymakers...
...classical strategies to produce results." Loury has become the most vocal member of what might be called the post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University of Chicago sociologist whose insights into class differences within the black population have provoked considerable controversy; Robert Woodson, 48, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates the work of community-based self-help groups; and Thomas Sowell, 55, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who was the first of the new renegades...
...little-known new group had asked for the White House meeting. Efforts by more traditional black organizations to talk seriously with the President have been rebuffed for the past three years. The council's spokesman, Robert Woodson, is president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates the work of community-based self-help groups. Instead of quarreling with Administration plans to cut the budgets of programs aimed at helping the poor, the council suggested reforms, including tax incentives for development of poor neighborhoods and a shift from government- supervised foster-care programs for abandoned children to those...
...Woodson hailed the meeting as the beginning of a "strategic alliance between President Reagan and Black America...
...Woodson said he and the three-week-old council requested the meeting because they were "concerned about the lack of progress" in policies toward low-income Blacks. "We saw a failure in traditional solutions like welfare," he explained...