We collectively allowed the ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) seeds to be planted years ago; and the harvest is now ready. Even the neocons get it.
“>EAUThe Robin Hood Foundation funds ACORN while the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation gave Robin Hood Foundation a $9,859,453 community development grant in 2000.
Robin Hood’s Board of Directors
Robert Pittman, Chair
Partner, Pilot Group, LLC
Lee S. Ainslie III, Vice Chair
Managing Partner, Maverick Capital Management, LLC
Dirk Ziff, Vice Chair
Chairman, Ziff Brothers Investments
Victoria B. Bjorklund
Partner, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett
Scott Bommer
President, SAB Capital Management
Peter F. Borish
Chairman and CEO, Computer Trading Corporation
Tom Brokaw
NBC News
Geoffrey Canada
President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone
Maurice Chessa
Director, Bedford Stuyvesant–I Have a Dream Program
Steven A. Cohen
Chairman and CEO, S.A.C. Capital Advisors, LLC
Glenn Dubin
Co-Founder and Managing Member, Highbridge Capital Management
Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children`s Defense Fund
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Chairman and CEO, General Electric Co.
Paul Tudor Jones II, Founder
Chairman and CEO, Tudor Investment Corporation
Peter D. Kiernan III
President and Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners
Kenneth G. Langone
Chairman and CEO, Invemed Associates, Inc.
Mary McCormick
President, Fund for the City of New York
Doug Morris
Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Group
Daniel S. Och
Senior Managing Member, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group
Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress
David W. Puth
Head of Inv. Research, Sec. Finance, & Trading Worldwide, State Street Corporation
Larry Robbins
Founder and CEO, Glenview Capital Management
Alan D. Schwartz
John Sykes
Media executive
Harvey Weinstein
Co-Chairman, The Weinstein Company