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The ACORN Network: Hierarchy Affiliates and Subsidiaries

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The Many Faces of ACORN

Among ACORN’s many affiliates and subsidiaries are:

  • 385 Palmetto Street Housing Fund Corp.
  • 4415 San Jacinto Street Corp.
  • ACORN
  • Acorn 2004 Housing Development Fund Corp.
  • Acorn 2005 Housing Development Fund Corp.
  • ACORN Associates
  • ACORN Beneficial Association
  • ACORN BeverlyY LLC
  • ACORN Campaign Services
  • ACORN Campaign To Raise The Minimum Wage
  • ACORN Center for Housing, Inc.
  • ACORN Children’s Benefi cial Association
  • ACORN Community Land Association
  • ACORN Community Land Association of IL.
  • ACORN Community Land Association of LA
  • ACORN Community Land Association of PA
  • ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center
  • ACORN Cultural Trust
  • ACORN Dumont-Snediker Housing Development Fund Corp
  • ACORN Fair Housing
  • ACORN Fund
  • ACORN Housing Corp.
  • ACORN Housing Corp. of IL
  • ACORN Housing Corp. of MO
  • ACORN Housing Corp. of PA
  • ACORN Institute
  • ACORN Law For Education, Representation, And Training
  • ACORN Management Corp.
  • ACORN National Broadcasting Network
  • ACORN Services
  • ACORN Television In Action For Communities
  • ACORN Tenant Union Training And Organizing Project
  • ACORN Tenants Union
  • Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
  • Agape Broadcasting Foundation Inc
  • American Environmental Justice Project Inc
  • American Home Childcare Providers Association
  • American Institute for Social Justice
  • Arizona ACORN Housing Corp.
  • Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation
  • Association for the Rights of Citizens Inc.
  • Associated Regional Maintenance Systems
  • Austin Organizing and Support Center
  • Baltimore Organizing and Support Center
  • Boston Organizing and Support Center
  • Broad Street Corp.
  • California Community Network
  • Chicago Organizing and Support Center
  • Chief Organizer Fund
  • Child Care Providers for Action Franklin
  • Citizens Action Research Project
  • Citizens Campaign for Work, Living Wage &
    Labor Peace
  • Citizens Consulting, Inc.
  • Citizens Campaign for Finance Reform
  • Citizens for Future Progress
  • Colorado ACORN Housing Corp.
  • Crescent City Broadcasting Corp.
  • Desert Rose Homes LLC
  • Dumont Avenue Housing Development Fund
  • Elysian Fields Corp., Inc
  • Elysian Fields Partnership
  • Fifteenth Street Corp.
  • Floridians For All PAC
  • Franklin ACORN Housing
  • Greenville Community Charter School Inc.
  • Greenwell Springs Corp.
  • Hospitality Hotel and Restaurant Organizing
  • Council (HOTROC)
  • Houston Organizing And Support Center
  • KABF Radio
  • KNON Radio
  • Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center Inc.
  • Living Wage Resource Center
  • Louisiana ACORN Fair Housing
  • Massachusetts ACORN Housing Corp.
  • Metro Technical Institute
  • Missouri Tax Justice Research Project
  • Montana Radio Network
  • Mott Haven ACORN Housing Development Fund Corp.
  • Mutual Housing Association of New York Inc.
  • National Center for Jobs & Justice
  • New Mexico Organizing and Support Center
  • New Orleans Community Housing Organization
  • New York ACORN Housing Company Inc.
  • New York Agency for Community Affairs Inc.
  • New York Organizing and Support Center
  • Organizers Forum
  • Pennsylvania Institute for Community Affairs
  • People’s Equipment Resource Corp.
  • Phoenix Organizing And Support Center
  • Project Vote
  • SEIU Local 100
  • SEIU Local 880
  • Service Workers Action Team
  • Shreveport Community Television
  • Site Fighters
  • Sixth Avenue Corp.
  • Social Policy
  • Southern Training Center
  • St. Louis Organizing And Support Center
  • St. Louis Tax Reform Group
  • Student Minimum Wage Action Campaign
  • Texas ACORN Housing Corp. Inc.
  • Wal-Mart Workers Association
  • Wal-Mart Association for Reform Now
  • Working Families Association
  • The Interlocking Directorates of the ACORN Network

    Here are examples of senior ACORN activists who serve either as officers or on the boards of ACORN affiliates or both (according to the affiliates’ most recently filed 990 forms):

  • ACORN national President Maude Hurd.
  • Secretary-treasurer of ACORN International Inc. and director of Affiliated Media Foundation Movement Inc.

  • ACORN’s national Vice President Maria Polanco.
  • She is the official contact person for the ACORN Dominican Republic Council. Polanco is also a member of the ACORN affiliate, Working Families Party (WFP), a registered political party in New York. Along with ACORN and
    WFP, Polanco was a plaintiff in the 2003 lawsuit Working Families Party v. New York City Board of Elections, in which the left-wing Bren-
    nan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law challenged the use of voting machines in New York City.

  • ACORN’s national Secretary Maxine Nelson.
  • President and a director of Project Vote and secretary of Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation Inc.

  • ACORN’s currently embattled founder Wade Rathke
  • He remains chief organizer of SEIU Local 100, president of ACORN International Inc., and president and a director of Affiliated Media Foundation Movement Inc.

  • Donna Pharr
  • Assistant treasurer and director of 385 Palmetto Street Housing Development Fund Corp. and ACORN Community Land Association of Illinois. Pharr is also assistant treasurer of ACORN 2004 Housing Development Fund Corp., ACORN Community Land Association of Pennsylvania Inc., ACORN Dumont-Snediker Housing Development Fund Corp., ACORN Law for Education Representation & Training, ACORN
    Housing Corp. Inc., ACORN Housing Corp. of Pennsylvania Inc., ACORN Housing Corp. of Missouri Inc., ACORN Institute Inc., ACORN
    International Inc., ACORN Tenant Union Training & Organizing Project Inc., Affiliated Media Foundation Movement Inc., American Institute
    for Social Justice Inc., Arizona ACORN Housing Corp. Inc., Arkansas Community Housing Corp. Inc., Association for Rights of Citizens
    Inc., California Community Network, MHANY 2003 HDFC, Mott Haven ACORN Housing Development Fund Corp., New York Agency for
    Community Affairs Inc., and Project Vote. Pharr is also deputy treasurer of Minnesota ACORN Political Action Committee and is listed
    in a Michigan Bureau of Elections filing as the contact person for Communities Voting Together, a 527 organization (see http://tinyurl.
    com/5kjens)

  • George Butts
  • President and a director of the Pennsylvania Institute for Community Affairs Inc. and vice president of the ACORN
    Institute Inc.

  • Mike Shea
  • Executive director of both ACORN Housing Corp. Inc. and Texas ACORN Housing Corp. Inc.

  • Dorothy Amadi
  • President of ACORN Dumont-Snediker Housing Development Fund Corp., ACORN 2004 Housing Development Fund
    Corp., Mott Haven ACORN Housing Development Fund Corp., both president and director of 385 Palmetto Street Housing Development
    Fund Corp., both vice president and director of New York ACORN Housing Co. Inc., and both vice president and trustee of New Jersey
    ACORN Housing Inc.

  • Vernon Bolden
  • Vice president of ACORN International Inc. and president and a director of SEIU Local 100.

    Source: Foundation Watch, 2008: Capital Research Center Cracks the ACORN (pdf)

    ACORN profile

    Related docs:

    Barack Obama Project Vote and ACORN

    ACORN’s Core: Principles and Foundations of Acorn

    Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?

    ACORN’s Hypocritical House of Cards

    Obama Smack Talk: “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking”

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    Street Punk POTUS

    Un-presidential. Uncouth. Uninspiring.

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. “You may be able to take the trash talking punk turned dirty pol out of Chicago, but you can not take the trash talking punk turned dirty pol out of the man”

    The Obama Administration’s silencing of dissent is becoming a recurring theme. Red flag people.

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    “But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”

    Obama’s trash talk  is conspicuously absent from the official White House release.
    The only portion of entire speech that contains the word “mess”

    And so in that kind of environment, wherever the incumbent party is, it’s always going to have some challenges. Even if people, when they really stop to think about it, recognize that this is mostly a mess that was inherited, people are still going to, rightly, hold the party in power responsible. What’s your plan? What’s your agenda? How are you going to move the state forward?

    Obama leans on his Bush crutch far to much. When will he stand up on his own two feet?

    Obama uses him for an excuse each time he speaks. At least once, usually several times. I count three instances while O was speaking in Raleigh NC. How can he blame Bush on a recurring basis and not spend his time looking backwards and making excuses? Obama the illogical One.

    And that’s right and proper, because we can’t spend all our time looking backwards or making excuses. Our job is to look forward and to determine how are we going to, regardless of what cards we’re dealt, how are we going to make sure that families here in Virginia and all across America are able to succeed.

    Talk is cheap.
    Clean up the ‘mess’ in your own back yard.

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    Bonus quote:

    We have just started to change this country, and we need a partner like Creigh Deeds to finish the work that we just began.

    Words fail me…

    Also see:  Jenn Q. Public, Failed Protester for Hire

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    August 8th, 2009 at 4:29 am