query: community organizing revenues

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[ed:  Thanks to Bob and Mark for replying to Sandy's message, and 
apologies for not thinking about their papers. I guess I was on the flip 
side of Sandy's query.]

From: Robert Bothwell <bob at bobbothwell.org>

Dear John, Sandy, Jane and Jean:  One source I would encourage you to 
review is Grassroots Associations by David Horton Smith, Sage 
Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2000.  David is a leading academic 
authority on grassroots groups.  Another source is my study of 
"Foundation Funding of Grassroots Organizations," available on 
http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers2001/bothwell.htm .  I would love to 
see your study when it is done.  Best wishes, Bob Bothwell

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From: "Mark R. Warren" <warrenma at gse.harvard.edu>

Dear John and Sandy,

Richard Wood and I did a report sponsored by Interfaith Funders which 
includes data on the revenue sources of faith-based community 
organizing groups. It's available as a 2001 COMM-ORG working paper 
on the website, entitled "Faith-Based Community Organizing: The State 
of the Field."  

Best wishes,
Mark Warren

> From: "John and Sandy O'Donnell" <sjod at interaccess.com>
> 
> Jane Beckett, Jean Rudd, and I are planning a study of the
> revenue bases of community organizing, with a particular focus on
> emerging ideas about and sources of revenue generation.  Can any
> of you point us to studies of or related to this topic?  Thanks
> very much.
> 
> Sandy O'Donnell
> sjod at interaccess.com
> 
> *********************
> 
> [ed:  This may be the other end of the question that Sandy asks,
> but probably the most successful revenue generating community
> organizing I have ever heard of was the struggle to get the
> Community Reinvestment Act, which generated as much as $1
> trillion in revenue for exluded communities.  See Greg Squires
> edited volume "Organizing Access to Capital."]
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