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Carole Levine is a Principal at Levine Partners Consulting providing consulting services to nonprofit organizations. She has held senior management positions in four national nonprofits: the National PTA (Deputy Executive Director); Communities in Schools, National (Vice President of Expansion and Technical Assistance); The Family Resource Coalition (Director of Technical Assistance); and the National Lekotek Center (Director of Development and Communications). Carole holds a BA from Washington University in education and political science, teaching certification and an M.Ed from National Louis University. She consults, trains, writes and speaks on issues of nonprofit development, often focused on work with underserved communities. Carole also serves on the boards of local, national and international organizations.
Martin (Marty) Levine is a Principal at Levine Partners Consulting. Prior to forming Levine Partners, Marty served as the CEO of JCC Chicago creating a purpose driven organization, continuously realigning service and management systems to responsively and effectively fulfill JCC Chicago’s mission. Marty has served as a consultant on organizational change and improvement to school districts and community organizations. He has published articles on organizational change and his writings appear frequently as part of Nonprofit Quarterly’s News Feed; he has presented at numerous conferences on this subject. A native of New York City, Marty is a graduate of City College of New York (BS in Biology) and Columbia University (MSW). Marty chairs a nonprofit board and has provided volunteer services to numerous organizations
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Hi Martin – I am sharing this comment here because I could not find an email address for you and the Nonprofit Quarterly has not allowed it through its “screening process” for over an hour. Best regards, Arthur (ArthurTHimmelman@aol.com)
Bravo, Martin Levine, for an unfortunately rare example of “speaking truth to power” in the philanthropic sector. Your observation that Gates did not address “the impact of poverty or the trauma of community violence, or systemic racism as even small considerations” suggests that its founders and staff are not only arrogant, but also willfully ignorant. Indeed, there is absolutely no reason to believe that education is a systemic bridge to opportunity in America. Gates is simply trying to perpetuate the myth that individual opportunity can, if I may use profanity, “trump” transforming existing power relations and fundamentally changing public policy re the allocation of public revenues. The Gates Foundation, like philanthropy in general, serves two basic purposes in America: (1) to maintain the good will of the public about the inequities of wealth by providing a portion of vast fortunes to society in the form of “charity;” and (2) since the late 19th century, to divert attention from creating a democratic socialist public sector to eliminate the worst aspects of monopoly capitalism. As I have said many times, philanthropy – it helps you stand on your own two knees.
I’ve just read an article written by Mr. Martin Levine in Non-profit Quarterly. Very interesting.
Thought maybe if you have nothing to do, LOL, you might want to investigate the 900 electrical coops across the country, ostensibly owned and operated by the membership. Not so. Salaries have skyrocketed by 300 % over the past few years and the total lack of transparency precludes any member/owner participation. Each coop is more corrupted than the next. Absolutely false and/or misleading information is disseminated to the members with pathological abandon. My local coop is French Broad Electric Membership Corp.
Thanks for your consideration.
Yvonne Hegney
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