Thread: North Carolina's ACORN Web

[b]Holy Crap and that's just one state!

http://www.nccivitas.org/media/publicat ... north-caro

A Single Seed Grows Many Branches: ACORN’s Web of Connections in North Carolina
Francis De Luca | January 7, 2010



The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) has woven itself into the fabric of the left in North Carolina. Listed below are short explanations of the ties between the groups illustrated on the above chart. For more detailed information on ACORN NC see Capitol-Monitor.org.

Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN)
ACORN NC – ACORN’s North Carolina arm – has offices in Raleigh, Durham and Charlotte. ACORN NC is a member of Blueprint NCand partners with NC Housing Coalition, NC Policy Watch and the NC Justice Center, among others.

Blueprint North Carolina
Blueprint NC was organized and funded by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. It is a partnership of over 40 progressive (liberal) state-level nonprofits housed at the NC Justice Center. Blueprint NC’s partner organizations are:

Phillip Randolph Institute
Action for Children
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU)
Carolina Justice Policy Center
Center for Community Self-Help/Center for Responsible Lending
Center for Death Penalty Litigation
Common Cause
Community Reinvestment Association of NC- CRANC
Conservation Council of NC Foundation
Conservation Trust of NC
Covenant with North Carolina’s Children, Inc.
Democracy NC
Disability Rights NC
El Pueblo
Environment NC
Equality NC
Fair Trial Initiative
Institute for Southern Studies
Ipas
League of Women Voters - Charlotte
Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation
NARAL Pro-Choice NC
NC ACORN
NC Against Gun Violence
NC Alliance of Black Elected Officials
NC Association of CDCs
NC Center for Voter Education
NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
NC Coalition Against Domestic Violence
NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault
NC Coalition to End Homelessness
NC Community Development Initiative
NC Conservation Network
NC Environmental Defense
NC Fair Share
NC Housing Coalition, Inc.
NC Institute of Minority Economic Development
NC John Muir Foundation (Sierra Club)
NC Justice Center
NC Latino Coalition, Inc.
NC Minority Support Center
NC NAACP
NC Policy Watch
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
Planned Parenthood Health Systems
Planned Parenthood of Central NC
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Southern Coalition of Social Justice
Traction
Working Families Win
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation funds progressive groups. Among them are El Pueblo Inc., North Carolina Housing Coalition, NC Justice Center and Project Vote.

NC Housing Coalition
The Campaign for Housing Carolina is a collaborative effort led by the NC Housing Coalition joined by NC Justice Center, A.J. Fletcher Foundation and ACORN NC.

Project Vote
Project Vote is ACORN’s voter mobilization arm and has provided legal support, including supporting litigation, for ACORN in a number of states. Project Vote registered more than 1.3 million individuals to vote; many of who were deceased, under the voting age or were fabricated registrants.

A.J. Fletcher Foundation
The A.J. Fletcher Foundation, whose mission is to support progressive nonprofits, gave $205,000 to the NC Justice Center and over $66,000 to the NC Housing Coalition in 2007.

Tides Foundation
Tides Foundation received a $25,000 grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, part of which was used to create gettraction.org. The Tides Foundation has given grants to the Center for Community Change as well as over $1 million to Project Vote.

Center for Community Change
The Center for Community Change received money from the Tides Foundation and is partners with the NC Justice Center.

Traction
Traction and their blog, gettraction.org, define themselves as the “future of the progressive movement.â€

Okay, vortex is getting really mad about this. Not good!
We are also home to Hamas and Hezbollah, along with illegal alien gangs like MS-13. Gently put, I AM NOT PLEASED!