ACORN loses funding from many Bay Area backers
The troubles of the nation's largest community organizing organization, ACORN, are being felt in the liberal Bay Area, where there is normally no shortage of supporters of the group's efforts to provide free tax help and other services to low-income residents and people of color. Amid allegations that employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now participated in voter registration fraud and, most recently, gave business advice to undercover filmmakers posing as a pimp and prostitute, Bay Area agencies that had supported the group have cut off tens of thousands of dollars of funding. ACORN's problems accelerated in...
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Tags: Acorn, Allegations, Backers, Business Advice, Community Organization, Community Organizations, Community Organizing, Filmmakers, Fraud, Free Tax Help, Income Residents, People Of Color, Pimp, Prostitute, Tens Of Thousands, Thousands Of Dollars, Voter Registration