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	<title>The Cohen Report &#187; Racial Equity</title>
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	<description>The Cohen Report is on the intersection of nonprofits, politics, and public policy.  It is written by NPQ&#039;s National Correspondent, Rick Cohen, and published by the Nonprofit Quarterly.</description>
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		<title>How This Country Continues to Miss the Point about Immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/08/27/how-this-country-continues-to-miss-the-point-about-immigration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can this nation continue to be so mystifyingly confused, contradictory, and sometimes downright incoherent about immigrants and immigration?   The Summer 2009 issue of Nonprofit Quarterly is devoted to the challenges faced by nonprofits in serving, representing, and advocating for immigrant populations in the midst of a confusing public discourse.  The authors in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action Venues for Immigration Rights and Reform Advocacy</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/07/27/action-venues-for-immigration-rights-and-reform-advocacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the White House meeting on immigration reform and commitments by the likes of Senators Reid (D-NV) and Schumer (D-NY) to get something done in Congress this year, the momentum for immigration reform action does not feel much like a juggernaut.  In the Washington Post, Tamar Jacoby of ImmigrationWorks (an employers group advocating immigration reform) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Immigration Agenda for &#8216;Regular Jane and Joe&#8217; Nonprofits</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/07/21/an-immigration-agenda-for-regular-jane-and-joe-nonprofits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people might think that a concern about documented and undocumented immigrants is sort of outside the ken of most &#8220;regular  Jane and Joe&#8221; nonprofits, the groups that aren&#8217;t immigrant-founded or -run, the groups whose agendas ostensibly have little to do or nothing to do directly with immigration reform.
That&#8217;s not true.  All nonprofits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Black Farmers: Dogged Advocacy Needed, Regardless of Who&#8217;s President</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/06/22/update-on-black-farmers-dogged-advocacy-needed-regardless-of-whos-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/06/22/update-on-black-farmers-dogged-advocacy-needed-regardless-of-whos-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January 2008, the Cohen Report wrote about the Pigford litigation that had attempted, with limited effect, to redress the historic discrimination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture toward black farmers.  In &#8220;Still Fighting the Last Plantation,&#8221; we took note of the principled support of then Illinois Senator Barack Obama and Iowa Republican Charles Grassley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Nonprofits Should Care about the DREAM Act</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/06/09/why-nonprofits-should-care-about-the-dream-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/06/09/why-nonprofits-should-care-about-the-dream-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonprofits across the nation ought to know what legislation is pending in Congress that would change the rules&#8211;hopefully for the better&#8211;for America&#8217;s diverse immigrant population.
The most important legislative initiative related to nonprofits and immigration&#8211;other than the elephant in the room, comprehensive immigration reform&#8211;is the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, S.729) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Greenlining Foundation Grantmaking in California: Big Progress or only the Appearance of Progress?</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/02/24/update-on-greenlining-foundation-grantmaking-in-california-big-progress-or-only-the-appearance-of-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/02/24/update-on-greenlining-foundation-grantmaking-in-california-big-progress-or-only-the-appearance-of-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the debate in California regarding getting large foundations in that state to report on their grantmaking to racial/ethnic communities and to people of color-led organizations?  In several postings (available under the &#8220;racial equity&#8221; category here), the Cohen Report covered the foundations&#8217; visceral, furious reaction against the legislation that the California state legislature was considering.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of the NAACP at a Pivotal Moment in History: An Interview with NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/01/21/the-future-of-the-naacp-at-a-pivotal-moment-in-history-an-interview-with-naacp-president-benjamin-todd-jealous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2009/01/21/the-future-of-the-naacp-at-a-pivotal-moment-in-history-an-interview-with-naacp-president-benjamin-todd-jealous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How will changes in the civil rights movement&#8211;changes in leadership, strategy, and program&#8211;affect the future of the nonprofit sector? News coverage of the turbulent recent history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People led to a spate of newspaper articles questioning whether the NAACP had a future or whether the civil rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condemned to Repeat the Past:  Lessons from History for Foundations and the Legislative Process</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/11/05/condemned-to-repeat-the-past-lessons-from-history-for-foundations-and-the-legislative-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/11/05/condemned-to-repeat-the-past-lessons-from-history-for-foundations-and-the-legislative-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History As A Teacher: The Interactions Of Foundations And Legislators
In foundation circles, it is an oft-repeated truism that McGeorge Bundy, when he led the Ford Foundation, and his foundation colleagues botched their relationships with Congress when they testified against federal regulation and specifically what led to the 1969 Tax Act’s controls on private foundations. Though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiating Diversity in Foundation-land and What it Means for the Rest of Us</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/06/27/negotiating-diversity-in-foundation-land-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/06/27/negotiating-diversity-in-foundation-land-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we predicted in the summer issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly and in the Financial Times, the California state legislature and the state’s biggest private foundations struck a deal to scuttle the looming legislative mandate (Assembly Bill 624) that large foundations report on their grantmaking to racially diverse communities and minority-led nonprofits. The deal was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Greenlining” Foundation Grantmaking: Racial Equality Reporting in California</title>
		<link>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/06/27/%e2%80%9cgreenlining%e2%80%9d-foundation-grantmaking-racial-equality-reporting-in-california/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/cohenreport/2008/06/27/%e2%80%9cgreenlining%e2%80%9d-foundation-grantmaking-racial-equality-reporting-in-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the Atlanta Journal–Constitution published a pathbreaking series on racial discrimination in awarding home mortgages? The Color of Money won a Pulitzer1 and put juice into community-based organizations, academics, and newspapers uncovering patterns of racial discrimination—or redlining—in bank mortgage and home improvement lending practices. Just as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) requires banks [...]]]></description>
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