Format update (add borders + background-color only) 2018 as it came up in a “faith-based” phrase search on this blog.  Currently Table of Contents do not go back to 2011.  My blogging skills were less developed then, and more images may have expired since I was not using “screenprints” to display them, but actual links to website which may have changed since then. ///LGH 5-2-2018.

Excerpt from the post:

The idea of this post began with the grant 90SN0001 to a presumably faith-based group in Connecticut, “Conference of Churches,” which was listed on Whitehouse.gov as the CT contact for a faith-based office.  See?  And the numbering “90SN0001” shows it was the first, possibly formative, in the series.   It should — but hasn’t, enough — raise serious fire alarms when the US Government — which taxes citizens regardless of their faith, while giving nonprofit exempt status to a multitude of churches

2018 inserts: 90SN0001 as it would appear now in a search by that “Award#” @ TAGGS.HHS.gov/SearchAdv

HHS 2009 $250K Grant 90SN0001 to “Conference of Churches” is the only grant shown to this Connecticut Entity. (Searched May 2, 2018).  Saved Search (2018) on #90SN0___ came up w/ under $12M, mostly $250K.  Sort by clicking on any column header and notice grantee type includes many gov’t departmts, mayors offices (includ “…of faith-based” in Michigan), universities, foundations — but few “Special interest other” like this one.

[12/31/2011 text starts here]

OK, So I mix & Match references.  Both apply and Both seem good labels for the situation.  To illustrate the References:

Fire Hydrant Hydration — How to Cool Off Responsibly (Scientific American, Blog post , 7/21/2010, by Ferris Jabr)

An opened fire hydrant in New York gushes 1,000 gallons of water a minute, draining the same reservoirs that supply kitchens, bathrooms, and—of course—fire hoses. “It’s illegal for private citizens to open fire hydrants on their own,” says Farrell Sklerov, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). “What people are supposed to do is ask for a spray cap from their local firehouse.”

Free of charge, NYC firemen will install or lend out perforated caps that cut down a hydrant’s gushing to 25 gallons per minute, while still providing constant jets of water for the hot and bothered. The caps help prevent water pressure from dropping dramatically in nearby homes and buildings.

Diagram courtesy of Flickr user takomabibelot @ http://urbanomnibus.net/2009/07/nyc-uncapped/

AND…

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(book images from “Perspectives on a Headache,” February 24, 2008, 9:48 PM @ http://migraine.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/curioser-and-curiouser/

Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!” says Lewis Carroll’s Alice after experiencing a sudden, disorienting growth spurt.  While she meditates on this philosophical conundrum, her body changes again. The girl shrinks. I have asked myself the same question many times, often in relation to the perceptual alterations, peculiar feelings, and exquisite sensitivities of the migraine state. Who in the world am I? Am “I” merely malfunctioning brain meat?

(the blog has 5 authors, one of them Oliver Sacks, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University.)

RE:  Water Gushing from an Uncapped Fire Hydrant + Down the Rabbit Hole…

Water Gushing from an Uncapped Fire Hydrant:

Yes, I have mixed references to a children’s book OFTEN cited when attempting to describe the family law system, or anything else upside down — and a fire hydrant, designed to provide life-saving water in the case of real fires, with its lid off, gushing precious water into the streets. . . .  So I’ll explain ANALOGY I and ANALOGY II before Declaring the HHS Faith-Based Grants system such a fire hydrant that needs to be capped, NOW!

The idea of this post began with the grant 90SN0001 to a presumably faith-based group in Connecticut, “Conference of Churches,” which was listed on Whitehouse.gov as the CT contact for a faith-based office.  See?  And the numbering “90SN0001” shows it was the first, possibly formative, in the series.   It should — but hasn’t, enough — raise serious fire alarms when the US Government — which taxes citizens regardless of their faith, while giving nonprofit exempt status to a multitude of churches (specifically the problem institution I’m tracking, less so than mosques or synagogues at this time.  The Bush-related Executive Orders and Prayer Breakfasts are not synogogue & mosque oriented, and that’s where these type of grants got propagated, see last post, see his Executive Orders establishing such offices in the Executive Branch of US Government — and without vetting this through the legislature, either.  It was not VOTED on — it was “declared” ex cathedra  by Executive Order, essentially  “Let There Be Light” on how the poor faith-based groups are not getting their fair share of federal loot, I mean largesse, I mean, funding to build capacity to better serve their communities.  We hereby — by decree– order there be created a federal docking station for all such underprivileged and yet well-wishing faith institutions, such as the Catholic Church and would-be rivals, Protestant evangelical megachurches headed by (men) called Bishops.

(a.k.a Eddie Long, or Archbishop Stallings of the Unification predilection, etc.)(incidentally, those links I stuck in there are revealing…  Bishop Eddie Long has been central in a Hampton University, VA-based Marriage Promotion program which is basically an HHS outreach center itself.  The person heading said conference was recently found alongside Wade Horn, David Blankenhorn, and another woman whose blog project is titled “No Wedding No Womb” (NWNW) — see Kansas.  Bishop Long was divorced twice now, his first wife having cited extreme cruelty, and has a sexual abuse suit by four young men.  

Clearly, we need to give faith-based groups a larger seat at the table for their community service to needy (vulnerable) populations, regardless of the original causes of this need.  Here’s another one, smaller I imagine in scope, but well-positioned:

This was in CONNECTICUT — home to (besides Yale), Fundraisers for “The Haiti Fund” which continued collecting for a nice young man (from wealthy Illinois suburb) to go to “the poorest country in the Western hemisphere” and a population of hungry street boys, to “help them.”  Being a Jesuit priest, I guess he wasn’t supposed to sleep with or marry women, so these boys were a good enough substitute.  Meanwhile — despite this utter betrayal of both faith AND charity — a “Conference of Churches” still gets federal help.

(Back Issues of CourthouseNews describe, and the recent one contains the complaint of one victim):

Church Abuse 12/23/2011 NEW HAVEN – An alleged victim claims The Society of Jesus of New England and Fairfield University enabled and covered up Douglas Perlitz’s sexual abuse of at least 20 children in Haiti.

Jesuit Schools Sued in Child Sex Case By CHRISTINE STUART 04/20/2011      HARTFORD (CN) – A man who says he was sexually abused at a school for street children in Haiti seeks $110 million in damages from Fairfield University, the Jesuit order, and former Connecticut resident Douglas Perlitz, who is serving 19 years in prison for sexually abusing children at Project Pierre Toussaint, in Cap-Haitien.

Really, along with the morning headlines or the evening TV news (if you read or watch them), remember to browse this on-line.  It provides a steady sampler of civil litigation affecting the judiciary, and often links to the documents themselves.  It is not just an aggregate of other news sources.  “About Us”

I hope this post doesn’t (like yesterday’s did) take me down the Rabbit Hole in trying to state the obvious:  The faith-based grants in particular (along with the fatherhood and marriage promotion ones — what’s next? — are “NONSENSE!”  From the start and in concept.  They are also serious trouble for what was formerly a great idea underlying the USA — defying “the Divine Right of Kings” and other nonsense used to justify tyranny.  Now, it’s not called that — it’s called “Helping” and “problem-solving” and “serving” families, etc.  But only because the same type of people with the same concepts (conscious or less than conscious) know better than to just come out and say (before total control is obtained over reproduction, marriage, divorce, education of young, the workforce, ownership, right to self-defense, and of course trade and commerce, the production of food and other things necessary to sustain human life and breath).

ANALOGY I

“Curiouser and Curiouser” is how these grants and grantees get individually and collectively.

No! No! Sentence first — verdict afterwards (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)*

(top ten quotes from the book do seem to relate to this system)

[(*That link discusses aspects of criminal justice system, problem-solving courts and other principles.  Interesting read, just found it.)]

(Image is a Wikipedia Upload)

A long time ago, in writing foundational to the existence of the USA, we held certain truths to be self-evident.  Now, not many years later (barely 250 years – maybe 10 generations? — later) it has become “self-evident” that there’s something seriously upside down with the problem-solving court system, particularly family courts.   It IS an altered realty – -and more than a bad dream, worse than a drug trip.  Whoever came up with the idea to start with was surely either on drugs, or high on themselves or some other ideology contrary to the concept of all men — and women — created equal.  “No, No!” Say the courts.  “There are experts, on and advising the bench, and then there are non-experts, those standing in front of them.”

Although the backup from clogged courts sometimes erupts in a newspaper headline, it still is basically an underground intricate rabbit warren of strange creatures and concepts, interlaced and with players scurrying back and forth between conferences, uttering (sometimes ludicrous) proclamations and with a clear hierarchy among them, declaring who is and who is not “mad.” And perhaps it is best handled as did this young woman who didn’t buy into it.  (From “the top ten quotes” link):

6) The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed `Off with her head! Off–‘

`Nonsense!’ said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.
The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said `Consider, my dear: she is only a child!’

or,

9) `I quite agree with you,’ said the Duchess; `and the moral of that is–Be what you would seem to be–or if you’d like it put more simply–Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’

`I think I should understand that better,’ Alice said very politely, `if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.’

`That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,’ the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.

The entire system essentially is one huge moralizing masterpiece, which also has figured out how to get paid for it, and “off with their head!” to anyone who dares to criticize or protest.  Look at this blog — I’ve lived it, and I’ve read it — and that’s not an idle comment.  See the series on Parent Coordinators and check out the handbook, if not.  Under what system of “law” is a parent to be regularly hauled before a magistrate or judge, and in a hearing lasting 20 minutes (OR, in ex parte hearings they were not present for) and supplemented by an entire set of administrative orders, with the power of court orders, which the child support system brings into play – -and much of which a “custodial” parent can’t even get ahold of, but affect his/her household — that can permanently alter people’s lives without due process AND without real remedy.

This is done to men and women both (hey, not my fault!) but the system was definitely influenced by the concepts shared with National Fatherhood Initiative, which is an HHS-originated beast that simply happens to have infiltrated if not permeated the child custody, child welfare, and to an extent, domestic violence fields, as the AFCC/CRC combo has created and staffed, essentially “led” the domestic relations/family court sphere down the Primrose Path, paved with public payments, and leading  . .. well, Down the Rabbit Hole.

Even Fathers and Families (Glenn Sacks, Robert Franklin et al.)  — and this system, and grants funneling into its tributaries — has compared it to “Alice in Wonderland.”

Anyone who has been forced to deal with the Alice-in-Wonderland procedures of family courts knows that one enters a totally different world than what we expect American jurisprudence is to be. One federal appellate judge, after reviewing a case in New Hampshire family court stated, “This must be what courts in Bolivia do.”  contributed by Fathers and Families Reader, David D. Vandenberg, posted May 27, 2011, article on NH Legislature Hearing to Impeach a General Master.

And the protective mothers and domestic violence advocates almost NEVER even mention the group, and definitely do not track its events and grants-grabbing purposes, which keeps women & mothers who might otherwise protest — with consequences — out of their way.  Both advocacy tracks (DV prevention and FR promotion) carry the same type cargo down parallel train tracks, while proclaiming they are moving in the opposite direction.  They aren’t! . . . .)

ANALOGY II:  HHS + Faith-Based Anything =a Gushing Fire Hydrant

Underlying concept:  Money, information (& privilege) flows like water.

Underlying that:  — the IRS, which is like an income generator for the Federal Government.

So much writing about the courts I read is incident-related, or single-truth-focused.  But the fact is, it’s the relationships that count.  I find it very helpful to understand flow of this or that, as enabled by various technologies where connections are made (i.e., the web, conferences, trade associations, and related publications).  I also know from having studied what certain originating nonprofits focus on setting up first:  “Technical Assistance” grants and “resource centers” meaning websites to enable their affiliates to download rhetoric (literally) from.   They understand how web is transforming business, but the people IN the courts, while organizing themselves on-line with (varying degrees of) success, and often forming “family court reform” nonprofits — do not seem to understand that their own government IS no longer organized according to a single-plane flowchart which reads like a standard hierarchy:

• Federal
• State
• County
• Municipal
• Jurisdiction by Subject Matter in the Courthouses.

And DEFINITELY no longer consist of these three Balanced Powers:

• Executive — headed by the President of the United States, extending all the way down through enforcement systems such as prisons.
• Legislative — headed by Federal Laws, U.S. Code — i.e., written authority — passed by two houses of U.S. Congress which writes & revises this.
• Judicial — headed by The U.S. Supreme Court, and under which all levels of courts come, down to your local family law justice.

Where, for example, would the Child Support System go — under this worldview?  Because it’s DEFINITELY now a hybrid between Executive (HHS/OCSE/$4billion/year enforcement, black holes of accountability/child support diversions) Legislative (Welfare Reform IS public law), and when you have a grant system which requires a certain outcome and XYZ incentives to be continued – it is an Incentive to Tip the Scale of Justice (and has been doing so for over a decade in family courts).

The only way I see fit to describe the influence of so many other systems upon the ones we still– somehow — seem to believe still exist sort of intact, as the scaffolding — is to describe water, which flows, has many functions, and can tear a new hole in a brick wall, depending on how much of it there is.

In short, we have to think in symbolic language which — on examination — actually applies to the situation, or we have lost the ability to MENTALLY grasp the reality of life.  It is also important to understand where power lies to do anything about its excesses.  Failure to incorporate the understanding of how “money” flows (let alone what money IS), and how FAST it flows in some cases, 

And the Fire Hydrant Analogy also applies because so many of the grants are to prevent, avert, or repair alleged fires or social crises — like “fatherlessness.”

Where’s the Fire, Really?

Connecticut is an interesting state for several reasons.  First, a University (or members of it) in Fairfield, CT was supporting this “Haiti Fund” even after the pervert running the schools (etc.) for boys it was funding got arrested for his perverted behavior.  Second, there’s, like, YALE. . . . . .

And it’s Center for the Study of Children (or wherever it is that AFCC honchos Dr. and Mr. Pruett, and a member of this new Defending Childhood Initative’s recent Task Force headed off by sports figure Joe Torre, add a Jesuit Priest with its non-filing (with California) organization, Homeboy Industries, (recent post) has someone from a Yale Center on it.

Here’s that Application — notice NOTHING on it reference the Custody or Domestic Relations Field.  The Coordinating Organizations here are dealing with the Criminal Justice System mostly — as though there was nothing marital, familial, domestic, or custody-related enough to merit involvement of even a family-law-based organization.  Sorry this is a long description, but here it is:

Overview

The Defending Childhood Task Force Technical Assistance Project will support an organization and/or a consortium of organizations that will

(1) conduct four public Defending Childhood hearings nationwide to raise awareness of the issues surrounding children’s exposure to violence and assist the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence (hereafter, the Task Force) in recommending promising practices to prevent and reduce the effects of children’s exposure to violence,

(2) prepare a final report, including information gathered at the hearings and other relevant information, from which the Task Force may draw specific policy recommendations, and

(3) provide all necessary support for the Task Force and Defending Childhood hearings, which will drive the work of the Task Force.

The project will be administered through a cooperative agreement with the [1] Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in partnership with the [2] Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), the [3] National Institute of Justice, the [4] Community Orientated Policing Services Office, and [5] the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). As a cooperative agreement, this project will require close coordination between the award recipient and the OJJDP program manager to ensure that all deadlines are met.

Note: Exposure to violence includes being a victim of violence or a witness to violence and encompasses abuse, neglect, child maltreatment, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking, school violence, and community violence.

This program is authorized by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, Pub. L. No. 112-10.

To reiterate the ridiculous — all the above organization assert that domestic violence is a crime.  They are SILENT on the matter that, once such criminal matter enters the realm of CONCILIATION (counseling, psychology-based, problem-solving, solutions-providing) COURT — it is NOT a crime, it is a “family dispute” or “parental alienation” or parents being selfish, or miscommunication.  It is something that needs a public-paid AND parent-paid and Nonprofit-owning-education-dispensing apparatus to handle.    They are not silent on the matter without reason — speaking up about it would probably shut down more child-trafficking and child-abuse, thereby forcing too many others to find another line of work, flood the job-seeker market and further shut down any wage protections remaining in the US Economy.

That was the announcement.  Here’s a live blog from The Daily Record, reporter Danielle Ullman (I guess on the first hearing) relating shocking stories and spokespersons, and even divorce — but not the field of custody as a field.  It also gets in a plug from an Imam equating child-abuse with father-absence:  Earl El-Amin, resident imam of the Muslim Community Cultural Center of Baltimore spoke about the rise of community violence in town. He attributes a lot of the problems to what he calls the “absent daddy club.” El-Amin says “If you don’t see a man, you can’t be a man.”

[Nonie Darwish and Ayaan Hirsi-Ali,* women, might see this differently.  Hirsi-Ali:

[*hover cursors for excerpts to the links, why I include them].

“Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.”  

Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these Westerners are the ones who misunderstand Islam. The Quaran mandates these punishments. It gives a legitimate basis for abuse, so that the perpetrators feel no shame and are not hounded by their conscience of their community. I wanted my art exhibit to make it difficult for people to look away from this problem. I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that “Islam is peace and tolerance.” 
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

How long will it take for others to realize that, at some level, MOST of the Faith-Based organizations (i.e., religions) tend this way; Islam, just more-so?  Christianity doesn’t mandate the punishments, but the message starts in Genesis and in practice, to me, despite Jesus (as recorded) having been virtually anachronistically feminist in many accounts — he also opposed religious systems of men abusing their own flock, male & female  — the current churches don’t see it that way.  They are so concerned about abortion and LGBT, that their own members molesting children and beating women doesn’t even cause major system change, or shutdown.  I speak as a witness and survivor, but at a cost that should never have been imposed if the Bill of Rights were respected FIRST, a situation that “therapeutic jurisprudence” literally spits on.  

Photo from the Baltimore Hearing, link above:

This task force just doesn’t have any plain old Mamas reporting on what it does to them to have their children legally (?) translated from their care into whoever it was they left because of abuse to start with.

It doesn’t in fact have ANYONE representing the family law venue (the link= the list), even that’s the FIRST area one ought to clean up when it comes to abusing and trafficking in children — because this is also a gateway into the welfare system and into the foster care, if the cards are played right in some cases.

That type of reporting will not happen with FEDERAL assistance– because it’s reporting basically ON federal assistance.  It has to be street-savvy, guerilla-level.  I don’t see it about to happen — most groups (including the Scranton forum I’ve been highlighting recently) are too gullible and person-not-principle-minded.  The problem is not systemic and national, it’s obviously just in our neighborhood.   And the problem is a particular GAL, Judge, or Courthouse.  This is not true and trying to solve it piecemeal locally makes no sense, not at this stage of the game.  Therefore…. 

. . . after maybe ONE more month on this blog, I tend to “abandon ship,” stop sounding such unheeded alarms, and save myself and what’s left (including for my kids’ futures, who are now young adults and still entrenched financially, psychologically, and to a degree physically not with their abusive father — who was cast off once his purpose was finished (serves him right, in my opinion, after he did the same to me as their mother) but are (it seems, from recent indicators) co-dependent for their survival upon the family “mafia” (word seems applies here without the quotes better than in some cases), with its value system of “thou shalt not talk about it, or else” and obtaining loyalty by (I’ll say “just about” although it seems unqualified) forcing and inducing others to participate in the same crimes, creating a certain collective mentality and guilt.

It being 12/31/2011…. I could

. . . talk about nice, nostalgic stuff and try & pretend I’d never even LOOKED down this rabbit hole of just how many ways the US Government oppresses and tricks its own citizens, after having got the money to do this FROM the same citizens!  Grants, child support diversions, welfare diversions, and the habit of public employees forming nonprofit after nonprofit to pursue THEIR trade interests, when their clients are being controlled by the legal system in a whimsical and no-due-process fashion.

But I’m not going to.

Here’s an example.

I discovered that the Connecticut Office of Faith-Based HotShots is actually a “Conference of Churches” and, fool that I was, looked them up, got their EIN#, and then, fool that I was, found out (using the EIN# to see if they were on the HHS Santa Claus list — they were) which grant it was, called   90SN0001 and for $250,000.

Knowing that the “0001” of any HHS grant series is somewhat significant, usually, I (fool that I was) went and looked up all the “90SN” series grants — which are specifically RECOVERY (ARRA) grants — which I know have a reputation for being poorly monitored.  Not a good indicator so far.

Anyhow, here we are — and after looking at the rows and columns of this, do you see? (I do!) anything strange about this grant series for STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES?  Let’s look at this.

I found 56 actions (some of them “0” or negatives) but, here they are, selected columns being fields I selected.

To try and NOT exceed the margins this time, I’ll skip columns that have all the same contents:

All were CFDA 93711, and all were from the program office with initials “OCS.”  (not ACF or OCSE,  or CDC, NIH, etc.)  ALL were marked “Discretionary” “Demonstration” and “New” and ALL were year 1 of the grant (regardless of date of the award action), and all are ARRA — “Recovery” grants.  What makes no sense to me– see “Award Title” column — there is a database field “Recovery Grant” or not; which can be (a) Blank or (b) labeled “NON” or (c) REC  (I just learned in this case).  Besides something should either be Recovery grant — or Not (i.e., mark the field X or leave it blank) — why would grant award title need any indicator of ARRA or not ARRA?  In this one short list, there are three different ways of labeling the Title field — which is supposed to, after all, give some indicator of WTF the grant is for, or doing, right?

Some add “ARRA” to the title, which is (quite frankly) stupid.  Some actually write out the acronym “ARRA” which is even more stupid.  COllectively, it makes sorting by title award# a joke.  I’ve never administered major databases, but I’ve designed some, and worked in high-level administrative support fields for major industries.  Even at clerk level, common sense says, get your act together, set some style standards, design database for intended users (in this case, the US public, free-access) and make it at least HALFway reasonable.  TAGGS — with hundreds of thousands of records in the database — just doesn’t.   It could’ve — but it didn’t.  To date, no one has yet fixed the absent last name of principal investigators for the $120million (or so) of October 2011 grant awards announced.

This and many, many other indicators show an Administration reasonable awareness that checks and balances for this database are nonexistant.  Has anyone besides me noticed?  Should I have to personally write someone at HHS to say, excuse me, but there are serious problems with your database?  Do none of their data entry clerks, if that’s who inputs, talk to each other, and communicate internal discrepancies?   Is, in fact, this database worth the cost of the website it’s up on for even a general picture of what gushing fire hydrants are pouring money from which funds into whose grantee-organizations?

As fascinating as this database is — and I do not know of ONE (nonprofessional, parent) blogger who reports on it in the context of family law, domestic violence, or preventing child abuse, that hasn’t previously communicated with me or ONE person (Liz Richards of NAFCJ.net, around since 1993 the site declares) which even points people to this site and encourages looking at it.  I do know, and can name, several nonprofit leaders (so-called) in those fields which actively discourage (by silence, and by attempting to silence me when I mentioned this) discussion of it, after California NOW in 2002, 2005 and thereabouts was reporting on the matters.  The thing is an insult, a spit in the face to taxpayers, who ought to have access to reliable information about where theirs went after it was collected/extorted under threat of imprisonment and/or bankruptcy for noncompliance.  Taxes also help create a centralized bureaucracy for which the number of competitors advantage the distributor – in any business, right?   To add to the insult, those who distribute (meaning who appropriate) are themselves public employees, sometimes at fantastically high salaries.  Some of those employees were elected in part by lobbying and assistance from wealth, inherited or corporate.   So why do we put up with this all these years, then?

The award titles were created by HHS after all, not the recipient, right? — given this field is on TAGGS, which they should know — why cloud the filing or electronic sorting system by prefacing a grant name with the descriptor?    This is the equivalent of a lowly file clerk (pre-electronic or otherwise) filing half the folders of company names containing a “The” under “T” but an unknown quantity, also prefaced with the word “The” under the second, not first noun.  It’s inconsistency creating extra work for any investigator.  PUBLIC investigators do this on their free time, i.e., non-income-producing time.  Therefore, our time should be better respected – but isn’t.

I decided to post this to show how I think about some of these, or spot which type of organization to look take a sample, further look at:

Or, to put it another way (sorting by what class of entity got the grant) shows one that wasn’t labeled as to class. 

Results 1 to 56 of 56 matches.
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Award Number	Action Issue Date	CFDA Number	Sum of Actions
90SN0001	09/19/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0002	09/19/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0003	09/20/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0004	09/19/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0005	09/19/2009	93711	$ 242,633
90SN0006	09/21/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0007	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0008	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,716
90SN0009	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0009	08/24/2010	93711	$ 0
90SN0010	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0011	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,301
90SN0012	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0013	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0014	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0015	09/23/2009	93711	$ 202,762
90SN0016	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0017	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0018	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,333
90SN0019	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0020	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0021	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0022	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,140
90SN0023	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0024	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,980
90SN0025	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0026	09/23/2009	93711	$ 248,690
90SN0027	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0027	03/12/2010	93711	$ 0
90SN0028	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0029	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0030	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0031	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,915
90SN0032	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0033	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0033	05/14/2010	93711	$ 0
90SN0034	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,975
90SN0035	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0036	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0037	09/23/2009	93711	$ 167,933
90SN0038	09/23/2009	93711	$ 222,079
90SN0039	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0040	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0041	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,911
90SN0041	05/06/2011	93711	$- 233,082
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90SN0042	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0043	09/23/2009	93711	$ 249,995
90SN0043	08/17/2010	93711	$ 0
90SN0044	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0045	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0046	09/23/2009	93711	$ 200,487
90SN0047	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0048	09/23/2009	93711	$ 218,150
90SN0049	09/23/2009	93711	$ 250,000
90SN0050	05/06/2011	93711	$ 233,082

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In 1996, leaders from The San Francisco Foundation identified a challenge: Community-benefit projects needed a place to incubate their ideas without having to become independent nonprofit organizations. The foundation responded to the challenge by creating a new organization that today is called Community Initiatives.

Cheryl Polk, Chair
A noted leader in the child and family services field, Cheryl Polk has a wealth of experience as a clinical psychologist, academic, and civic volunteer. Dr. Polk was recently appointed executive director of the John and Lisa Pritzker Family Fund, before which she served as executive director of the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund for nine years. She serves as a director of many professional and community organizations, including Zero to Three, Jumpstart, and the W. Haywood Burns Institute. {??} (Board, here)  (The Burns Institute looks like a valuable project)

She recently completed eight years as an appointed member on the San Francisco Children and Families Commission. Dr. Polk has received many citations, recognitions, and awards, including the prestigious National Leadership Fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation, Salzburg Fellow for Early Childhood Development, San Francisco Outstanding Advocate for Children in 2003, and the Shining Star Award for Leadership and Dedication to the Children of San Francisco in 2000.

 In 2006, Mayor Gavin Newsom selected Dr. Polk as a founding member of the San Francisco Children and Family Policy Council.** She recently completed eight years as an appointed member on the San Francisco Children and Families Commission. Dr. Polk has received many citations, recognitions, and awards, including the prestigious National Leadership Fellowship from the Kellogg Foundation and was a Salzburg Fellow for Early Childhood Development.

“Healthy Organization Partnership Program“:

The majority of funding is provided through a $1,000,000 grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Strengthening Communities Fund (SCF) Nonprofit Capacity Building Program. This program was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The Initiative Foundation was one of 35 organizations in the nation to receive a SCF Nonprofit Capacity Building grant, out of over 700 applicants.

This program is also supported with funding from The McKnight Foundation and other generous donors.

Recovery.gov – Track the Money

OVERVIEW OF FUNDING The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 distributes funds in three ways. Since its enactment in February 2009, $737.3B has been  paid out.

$840 BILLION  allocated.