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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (view source)
Revision as of 18:38, October 26, 2010
, 18:38, October 26, 2010new section - ACORN successor groups
===Name change===
===Name change===
Due to all the conservative press ACORN gets for fraud, Wade Rathke has approved changing their name to 'Community Organizations International'. <ref>[http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ACORN-drops-tarnished-name-and-moves-to-silence-critics-48730537.html ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics] Washington Examiner, June 21, 2009</ref>
Due to all the conservative press ACORN gets for fraud, Wade Rathke has approved changing their name to 'Community Organizations International'. <ref>[http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/ACORN-drops-tarnished-name-and-moves-to-silence-critics-48730537.html ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics] Washington Examiner, June 21, 2009</ref>
==ACORN successor groups==
ACORN the national organizational is now defunct. The group has split into regional organizations under different names shown below.
*Community Organizations International
*Texans Together Education Fund
*Health Care for America NOW!
*Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
*Voting Is Power
*Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas
*Communities Voting Together
*Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change
*Affordable Housing Centers of America, Inc.
*New England United For justice
*A Community Voice
*Communities United
*Minnesota Neighborhood's Organizing For Change
*Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment
*New York Communities For Change
*Pennsylvania Neighborhoods For Social Justice
*Texas Organizing Project
*Organization United For Reform (Our) Washington
*American Institute For Social Justice
==Also See==
==Also See==