Are any of these corporations nonprofits?
Sampling of the perhaps less famous ones from the list:
Archive for July 2013
Congressional Resource Service — and the Public Can’t Get its reports Timely, or Easily, WHY??
In “A Testimony for these Times” I quoted some CRS reports, and got curious again about the history of this service, which provides reports that are wonderfully informative to people involved in custody hearings — about federal policy influencing them.
For example, Here is memo from Carmen Solomon-Fears and Gene Falk, dated June 26, 2009, Subject:
The Julia Carson REsponsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2009.
Not mentioned specifically — who got this memo? It helpfully (by means of a chart) compares HR 2979 (the above act) with current law. I see that in Sections 108 and 109 (see pp. 11ff) there are stipulations about partnerships between marriage/fatherhood and domestic violence experts, sought and recommended by the HR 2979.
Why shouldn’t the individual parents likely to be affected by this (particularly survivors) be informed BEFOREhand that this proposed legislation has taken place, giving them better opportunity and time to prepare to comment, or talk to their legislators, about those matters? Because they want to ramrod the legislation through before we, the plain people (not institutes, not think tanks, not “scholars” not the media)???
This is from a site (just found — maybe a nonprofit?) called “OPEN CRS”
About Open CRS
https://opencrs.com/faq/American taxpayers spend over $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a “think tank” that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports that are already in the public domain.
CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report. A number of libraries and non-profit organizations have sought to collect as many of the released reports as possible. Open CRS is a centralized utility that brings together these reports.
Unfortunately, there is no systematic way to obtain all CRS reports. Because of this, not all reports appear on the Open CRS web site. We believe that it would be far preferable for Congress to make available to the public all CRS Reports.
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About the Writing Style (Getting It Out without going PTSD), Locating this in Time and Space…
Just a word about the situation here, the conversational, almost patchwork style of this blog.
And why I’m unapologetic, if defensive, about the uncopyedited factor.
Here was my excuse, about four years ago, shortly after starting this blog:
My Copy Editing Disclaimer: While I can Copy-Edit for stylistic consistency, Let’s Get Honest: This blog ain’t about to be Copyedited.”
(Proofreaders, copy editors, and some others may notice that there are three different forms of the same phrase in the title — run together, two words, and hyphenated). Also see (under there), the section on Csikszentmihalyi and the psychology of flow. Why not have some fun while telling the truth?….
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WGU (Western Governors’ University) — Public Servant Nonprofits + Technology + Some Clout, a few Gubernatorial Executive Orders, and ….
And next thing you know, the profits are rolling in.
Western Governors University, I simply decided to look up as the last group on “THE LIST of Corporate Fellows” and which may be the only nonprofit on it. [Incidentally, that link shows where I found the list. This association, where the list was found, was instrumental in pushing fatherhood initiatives upon the states, BEFORE welfare reform of 1996. However, that’s not all it’s up to. You are supposed to make the connection between whose “List” it was (only one of many similar ones, but it does carry some serious clout), what is Western Governors’ University doing on that list, and who and what are these Governors’ Associations, ANYHOW? There’s a reason for it and a history behind it.
There also may be some closer than comfort connections to things like municipal bankruptcies, although billionaire multinational industry leaders have had it all under control for decades anyhow, given their ongoing clout with the federal government…
If you can comprehend that, and then understand how could some of the leaders of industry have met IN Detroit, in 2009, to “Plan the Future” (i.e., new presidency, right?) — and how could the City of Detroit be bankrupt? If you get that far, then maybe I can complete the post in draft showing what turned up on The Children’s Trust page of the Michigan State Government website, and what private corporations are promoting their wares through this high-profile, high-publicity statewide website, and how THEY connect to the wish to indoctrinate, excuse me, EDUCATE everyone at public expense, allegedly for the public benefit (which should put the condition of Detroit — or the honesty of those policymakers — into more clear focus. Then, hopefully, the soul-searching may start up again, although I’m not “banking” on it…)
Compare THIS to the Bankruptcy:
NATIONAL SUMMIT TO DEFINE AMERICA’S FUTURE” was held, sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club, and the Presenting Sponsors were FORD and DOW (as in DOW Chemical), hosted at the Marriott. Among the many speakers (see LIST and do explore the summit site) is DeRocco, on The Manufacturing Institute.
Are these people America’s primary spokesmodels, or just its current Managers?
At any rate, one of the Board members of Western Governors University was a speaker, that’s the only reason I knew about the 2009 conference…
(the Detroit material is enclosed in a table, to separate it from the WGU material).
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Like Western Governors University, The Detroit Economic Club can be put in historic, self-description, Wikipedia Description, or “Look Up a Nonprofit” description (i.e., look at its tax returns [from that link, you can extract the EIN# and look up the others at foundationcenter.org. I notice that it’s called “Economic Club of Detroit” on that list) including who’s been running it. Its website (Self-description) contains the motto “Vital Issues, Prominent Voices, Business Connections, Educational Outreach.” Judging by what “Sponsorship” costs (from $5,000 up to $50,000), I’d say that Business Connection is probably the main issue driving the other three…The SPONSORS list.
Main point — it was formed in 1934. Someone was thinking strategically about the future… Chairman of the board is Wm. Clay Ford, Jr., there’s an “Honorable” or two on the trustees, and only one person, the Exec Director, is paid. It’s SOLE nonprofit purpose is running the conferences (costs, $1.2 million or so) 33 last year. (actually the two “Honorables” include the Mayor of Detroit, The Hon. David Bing, and Hon. Henry W. Archer, former Mayor of Detroit (1993-2001), first African-American President of the ABA (who didn’t allow African American MEMBERSHIP before 1943!!), and a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice. See link for other distinctions. From the Fairleigh Dickinson link re: The Hon. Henry W. Archer: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Wikipedia also mentions a member of “Prince Hall” (Masonic) Lodge, a whole other issue as the lodges were also racist. With these leaders, whose futures don’t look anything close to bankrupt or distraught — how come Detroit as a corporation took the hit? A small slice of Mr. Ford’s profile, other than being Henry Ford’s grandson:
He’s not going to be hurting. People who aren’t so mobile, and don’t have investments in (or chair) international corporations ARE hurting in Detroit. Perhaps they should start reading the CAFRs and figure out a response. |
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“Western Governors University UT EIN# 84-1383926
[a table of its escalating yearly assets; with a few links to a tax return for that year)
| 2011 | 39 | $81,700,540 |
| 2010 | 36 | $66,047,009 |
| 2009 | 33 | $46,331,464 |
| 2008 | 29 | $33,652,167 |
| 2007 | 31 | $23,666,707 |
| 2006 | 23 | $19,588,480 |
| 2005 | 26 | $11,516,913 |
| 2004 | 27 | $7,084,697 |
| 2003 | 24 | $3,833,876 |
| 2002 | 25 | $2,444,748 |
The IRS Select Exempt Check says WGU is a Salt-Lake City “Exempt” nonprofit, like any other. Contributions to it are 100% deductible. now, what sector of the economy might be attracted to donate to such a group?
EIN Legal Name (Doing Business As) City State Country Deductibility Status
84-1383926 Western Governors University Salt Lake Cty UT United States PC
If you actually start looking at these tax returns — the revenues are astronomical ($152 million for Year 2011) and also increasing by a GOOD chunk each year. However, they are hiring more (Salaries also increased) managed to give away more grants than the prior year. Question should be asked about where is the money flowing in from — meaning, the public contributions part. I’ve posted the tax return again down lower.
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“The List” of Corporate Fellows – Where was it Found? [First published 7/19/2013]
I found this list in July 2013. All were Corporate Fellows of a certain Nonprofit (notice: none are nonprofits themselves, I think)[1].
([1] update. Actually the last one on the list (Western Governors University) is, and probably some of the healthcare-related ones also are.
See “Phoebe Factoid suit argued in Highest Court” (Oct. 2011. The nonprofit in question was a health-care system n Albany, Georgia). I blogged it in January 30, 2010, as a point of reference about nonprofitsThe Profit in Nonprofits and 2 men in Albany, GA, however that post has been blocked out (I DNK why) from public view. Interesting.
[2] My 9/15/2016 update Page (since where the list was found has already been identified in later posts) includes information on the specific public-civil-servant (governors)-led organization’s red-carpet invitation to a “pay-per-presentation” style of governance through the “Corporate Fellows Program.” The Page* is about a different subject matter, but in the course of explaining who is that organization, also takes a look at one of the half-BILLION-dollar (Total Assets, of which around $300M is stowed in public-treated securities controlled by an organization whose independently voting board of directors is only 14 people):
*In blogging, a Page =/= a Post. Posts appear in sequence (current ~~> older) on the blog main page as published, and links to them, by date only (without titles) also show up automatically under “Archives. ” By contrast links (access) to published Pages are only displayed if I, the blog administrator, choose to load them onto the sidebar, or link to them within a post, as I did here. Right now, my right sidebar is overloaded, and this “Do You Know Your NGA” one may or may not show up there when I publish it, later today (9/15/2016).
Incidentally, this seems to be true for all blogs and websites, such that private individuals working for or more closely associated with the blog’s (or website’s ) organization may have access to much more information than the public does at any point in time. Also, material displayed changes over time.
Sometimes I will run across information through a general Google search for which I cannot find ANY clear path to starting from the main website. When this happens, repeatedly, on government websites (state level or other) it can be very disconcerting.
Over the three years since this post, I have learned a lot. I recommend viewing that “Do You Know Your NGA” Post at your earliest convenience. I believe this information is under-reported and not commonly understood, although as you will find out, the NGA claims to pre-date both the income tax and the federal reserve… Sincerely//LGH (Blogger “Let’s Get Honest”).
My last few posts have taken a look at some of these corporations, what business they are in, and how they do business. The groups, and their founders are fascinating, and are the backdrop to the type of business chosen to be on such a list. These corporate fellows, literally help government advise the people how to think, work, act, and how the world works and on major public policy.
These types of companies reflect major sectors of the economy. I encourage people to look some of them up and ask, what did they have in common, and to whom are they “Corporate Fellows?”
So it’s only “THE List” in the context of recent references by me to “the list.”
Below this list((in two formats), a short discussion of why the word “Fellows” and what it implies, other than honor, high achievement, special privileges, and esteemed colleagues. It also has snob appeal, cf. a form of nobility. So whoever considered this list to be “Corporate Fellows,” other than that they’re also contributing to the central group, we should be asking WHY.
Such lists (this is only one) are indicators of who, really, is “The U.S.A.?” and what business is it in. I think this particular clue is overlooked and underrated as to how deeply it can affect the quality of life, and who answers to whom, at the “local” (street) level.
It’s in two formats — the top table contains (or should) the exact same list as the bottom.
The BOTTOM one may be easier to click on individual corporations than the bottom, BUT OVER TIME HAS LOST ITS TABLE FORMATTING, and I am not replacing it at this time.
I tried to put it in a single-column, left-side-of post, format around which posts could be written, but don’t have the technical expertise (yet). If you want to help upgrade the visual formatting of this post, please use the Donate Button to right!
TOP: THE SINGLE-COLUMN FORMAT (click on any link) with a “for example” row:
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Chicago/Princeton/Harvard Economics Smart (Professor Edward Glaeser), but with an Unfortunately Large Blind Spot
A recent comment on this post (not actually on the main subject matter, but nevertheless…) got me looking at it again. Now I have a temporary problem, called one post, and 16,000 words.
About a year and a half ago (as of this 2014 update), in October, 2012, I wrote:
From Oxford to Harvard, to D.C. — Healing, Fueling, Feeding (and Vaccinating) the World
I’ve become more and more interested in corporate influence on government agencies, such as HHS and HUD (and DOJ) after coming to better understand the court system, and the nonprofit factors. You can only look at things for so long before the lights start to go on, with or without university exposure and indoctrination in how to. The difference between doing this individually and the university experience is, obviously, connections, associations, and the dynamic of group momentum which comes from simply rubbing shoulders with leadership.
On the other hand, we now have a problem where leadereship isn’t very interested in rubbing shoulders with followers. I’m wondering at what point did the concept of participatory and representative government take an exit stage-left? That answer may be never found precisely — but I WILL say it was many decades ago and that it was, sheds light on whether we should lock-step (with occasional and periodic “Disruptive innovations”) continue marching towards the future unaware of whether its values systems are leading away from or towards things, historically, we are supposed to consider unethical and bad: Slavery, #1, and Genocide, #2.
Essentially I am talking back to the habit of hero worship of capitalist adventures (such as cities represent) and the Harvard Global Model of Governance (Harvard has of course Oxford Connections, and both institutions tend to mirror each others practices, as well as share professors and personnel). I also have a lot to say bout the concept of “Innovations” when it displays itself in innovative justice programs whose backers just happen to be some of THE major foundations influencing American government today. I want people to consider (REconsider) just how DID the federal government become so powerful, and at what point did we consent to becoming its resource, and not it, individual state’s servant, with citizens/residents of those states being able to actually deal with their state-jurisdiction political leaders and expect to be heard past the many public/private innovation, real estate development, court-transformation, and elite university think-tank models of ….how the world should be?
At any rate, this got out of hand, turning a July 2013 post into a March 2014 monstrosity which, however, does have the material for a new post along my current lines of understanding.
I haven’t had success at turning published posts back into “Draft” so (embarrassing as it is), this is now a post in transition, whose middle needs to be extracted and turned into a new post. However, if you’re still up for it, the material is good, and good to know about.
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Genzyme, BioEnvision, ImPath, Sanofi – New Strains of Fish in the Ocean of Commerce
Yes, it’s disheartening reporting (from the front lines as well) what makes people broke and drives them homeless or close to it (particularly, federal policy and welfare reform with its diversions into Designer Family Curricula).
However, in looking at this policy one continues to run into some of the larger industries (corporations) running and directing the policy of our non-representative governments (US, state, county, regional, etc.).
See the list @ What Brings All These Companies Together in One Electronic Place and for One Cause?” (July 7 LGH post)… That question is still on the table; most of my comments these days are “spam.” However, there are other networks (like phone, email, etc.); the word is out.
This post is a bit of a wild ride, which is better than the straight path to poverty and drudgery, and narrating who paved the road… I think it shows there IS an alternate way to live, and one of the better ways to get there is to ignore the advice, and perhaps follow the career paths of people who are arrogant enough to believe they should be planning for the planet, and coaching people what kind of jobs to work, inbetween inventing and merchandising new technologies, raising capital for startups and then selling them and with the profit, starting up some more things, most of this related very, very (very very) closely to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, who are most likely to sponsor professorships, fellowships, centers of excellence at the university level, and all kinds of projects which might improve THEIR profits.*
(Don’t miss the part where a leading geneticist George Church (see Human Genome Project) is interviewed by a German magazine about the theoretical and technical possibility bring the Neanderthals back to life through DNA (and of a surrogate human mother). And where he figures, well, there’d need to be a cohort of them… This mindset probably wouldn’t be welcome in any welfare-to-work programs as a legitimate work-activity — creative thinking and inventing “disruptive technologies” which some of these below are called. In fact, in my experience, the extended gauntlet of the family courts is about THE best way to squelch any creative thinking — if one parent exhibits it, the other can simply get them labeled as an oddball or eccentric thinker, and next moment it’s — where are my kids? Thus while it’s not quite LEGAL to actually OUTLAW creative thinking or resourcefulness in single parents (or their exes), a lot of it can be screened out in the family law arena, preserving the status quo of “divorce” as a crime, and non-collaborative (with the ex) behaviors as a thought-crime close to it. ]]
[*And sorry about all those long opening sentences. I can’t reconstruct DNA, so apparently like stringing those ideas together in a sentence; and yes, that is a form of play…)
Particularly if one wasn’t born into the privilege and/or hasn’t hit the ground running from an early age…to end up at Harvard, Yale, etc. it might be good to look at the flip side of the social science research and demonstration fields one is constantly exposed to while going through the courts, custody, etc. matters….
How each of these corporations got started and what they are doing is downright inspiring and enlightening. It’s a history lesson — on the actual mutual-benefit factor, as opposed to the alleged public benefit factor, which sometimes turns out to be just myth. It takes money to keep the myths spinning, too — so like I continue to say, “follow the money” and “educate yourself.”
This Top section is just to brush some biotech language in front of our faces, maybe as an industry alert that, finding minimum-wage jobs for those on welfare may not be the best idea for them, at least if “income self-sufficiency” is the long-term goal… in THIS global corporate climate?
From “FierceBioTech.com (“The BioTech Industry’s Daily Monitor”) we see a Harvard Biological Chemist dive into the thrill-seeking team science environment of searching for things to help the Pharmaceutical companies come up with new drugs. Look at the startup funding, and the companions (not to mention the company names):
Prolific Harvard chemist Greg Verdine takes helm at Warp Drive
July 2, 2013 | By Ryan McBrideProfessor Gregory Verdine has founded plenty of biotech companies, but Warp Drive Bio has become the first one he has ever helmed as CEO. After co-founding Warp Drive, which launched last year to discover natural product drugs, Verdine has taken over the chief executive role from Third Rock Ventures partner Alexis Borisy.
Based on Verdine’s original scientific idea, Warp Drive took off last year with a $125 million financing deal to mine bacterial genomes for drug compounds. Sanofi signed on as a funder and collaborator from the start, helping Third Rock and Greylock Partners to finance the drug-discovery effort. Borisy, who Verdine credits for the business plan behind Warp Drive, has become the startup’s executive chairman.
That whole article is fascinating; towards the end it mentions GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, and Novartis as companies willing to come “back to earth” in searching for great bacteria to test new drugs on. That’s where Warp Drive and a Harvard chemistry professor seem to come in.
Related, earlier this year (like, January), we learn about the Financial Power of Syndication:
UPDATED: Fueled by Sanofi, Warp Drive Bio takes off with $125M deal
January 12, 2013 by Ryan McBride
Biotech startup Warp Drive Bio has scored $125 million in financing from a syndicate that features the French drug giant Sanofi ($SNY) along with founding backer Third Rock Ventures and the VC firm Greylock Partners. More than just an investor in Warp Drive, Sanofi has an option to acquire the startup if the new company can hit certain goals in developing drugs found in microbial genomes.
With a brand new approach for discovering drugs from nature, Warp Drive aims to search the genomes of microbes for molecules that have the potential to target disease pathways that the have eluded all other attempts to do so. It’s the brainchild of Greg Verdine, a chemical biologist at Harvard and venture partner at Third Rock. His fellow founders include Harvard genomics pro George Church** and James Wells, who studies protein-to-protein interactions at the University of California, San Francisco. (“UCSF”)
“This is the type of early-stage, blue sky, innovative, transformative company that a lot of people are saying just isn’t getting created anymore,” Alexis Borisy, a Third Rock partner and interim CEO of the startup, told FierceBiotech. “But here we are. We have created it.”
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What brings all these companies together in one (electronic) place and for one cause?
[note: pending an upgrade of this blog, so I can overcome the WordPress nasty habit of stripping out the paragraph returns, even when they are manually inserted, html and all, in “text” mode — I am going to have to use the horizontal line function…
… as a paragraph return. I did learn that this is a common issue a plug-in, or certain code will fix — if you have customizable function. Anyone is willing to drop a few in the “donate” bucket (button just added to website) and that’ll be one of its first uses. We are getting to the point of “irreconcilable differences” between blogger and blog domain, otherwise….It’s slowly driving me batty, and a real timesucker…]
Where do you think I found this, given what I blog on?
Mylan is one of the world’s leading generics and specialty pharmaceutical companies, providing products to customers in approximately 140 countries and territories. The company maintains one of the industry’s broadest and highest quality product portfolios, which is regularly bolstered by an innovative and robust product pipeline. With a workforce of more than 20,000, Mylan has attained leading positions in key international markets through its wide array of dosage forms and delivery systems, significant manufacturing capacity, global commercial scale and a committed focus on quality and customer service.
Through its India-based subsidiary Mylan Laboratories Limited, Mylan has direct access to one of the world’s largest active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturers. This relationship makes Mylan one of only two global generics companies with a comprehensive, vertically integrated supply chain. Mylan Laboratories Limited also is one of the world’s largest producers of API used to make generic antiretroviral (ARV) therapies for the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Additionally, Mylan operates a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical business, Mylan Specialty (f/k/a Dey), which produces innovative medicinal therapies, including EpiPen®(epinephrine) Auto-Injector
SANOFI: “Engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of innovative therapeutic solutions. Sanofi has core strengths in healthcare, with 7 growth platforms: diabetes solutions, human vaccines, innovative drugs, consumer healthcare, emerging markets, animal health and the new Genzyme.
Sounds diversified, wouldn’t you say? ANIMAL HEALTH and Genzyme
A nice history of their consolidations and mergers going back to the 1800s…
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“Scope of the Issue/Unholy Trinity” (10/2012) and “FAQs on CAFRs” (@7-5-2013)
| FNAQs. (Frequently Not Asked Questions)Scope of the Issue: Unholy Trinity of Excess Welfare Funds, Religious Zealots, and Social Scientists. For Starters. (my October 19, 2012 post: Recommended Reading, Easy to Follow).
Case study on the first state (Oklahoma) that decided to nab $10 million in extra contingency welfare funding to promote marriage (which leads all over the map, but especially also to Colorado and Florida) — which brings up, among other questions,
… have any direct connection to the radical restructuring of WELFARE in 1996? Was that perhaps the real purpose all along of that restructuring to get extra cash away from individual citizens, impoverishing them with the ultimate goal of totally controlling them and conditioning them to assume national “guilt” (debt) for fictional circumstances — while federal block grants to states sit in the the state-level bank accounts associated with state-level government leadership until they figure out even more creative ways to redistribute AWAY from poor people and TOWARDS the professional class who believes they should make a living managing poor people? I mean, the key concept behind “TANF” (block grants to the states) was for the FEDS to give the STATES more flexibility with the billions of aid they got from the federal government on this logic (?): The federal government will “take it on faith” that the top state leadership (all 50, and territories) had their own citizens and residents best interests in mind, and not special interests, like quid pro quo deals?
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| FAQs on CAFRs, and more. Courtesy Walter Burien, C.A. Fitts (Their Work,My Flavoring)(Basic Macro Concepts, highly Recommended Reading. Synthesize Common Sense…) links at the bottom of this post show that Family Courts are part of Government, which is a business. One leads to a chart of the 112th (previous) Congress, by Religion, which (given what I now know about the courts) the following commentary:
In both House of Reps and Senate, a solid majority (88%, 75% or so, respectively.) are held by people that routinely say and hear the word “Jesus Christ” in worship, and are certain that, whether Mormon (small), Protestant (largest block), or Catholic (Smaller block but largest single denomination) — the other guys got it wrong, seriously wrong. Perhaps the off-the-record debate among the faithful and praying contingency (Protestant and Catholic, or within the “real” protestants and those Sects who supposedly aren’t really “Christian,” like Mormons, went something like this: “Since we can’t agree on theology, can we agree on a common enemy? Women,* or maybe Poverty. Or Child abuse. Or — wait a minute, let me think — OK, “GOT IT!– we can wrap all three up in one” — “fatherlessness.” I also learned that of the Protestant block (for 113th, at least), the largest sector is Baptist. (*especially women making up false allegations that someone was abusing them, and taking legal action on it, reporting to OUTsiders… Or women with dark skin out-breeding “US” (for “Us” — see recent photos of any full Congress and make a wild guess who that might represent). |
There is a WHOLE lot more that could be said about both those topics. However, after a few days of attempting to say it (and fighting this formatting), I admitted defeat and am settling (for how) in just getting those two links up there.
Fascinating stuff, and all of it is going to lead to more material. Like, today, I just got another look at a group called the “National Governors’ Conference” which has, within it, something called the National Governors’ Conference Center for Best Practices (or something very similar). The latter is a nonprofit 501(c)3 which was NOT formed in ca. 1908, like the governors conference — but shares a website, a street address, and leases employees from the NGA itself.
Anyhow, Governor Frank Keating (of the first link, above: Excess Welfare Funds) is being portrayed as having “on the issues” endorsed the “NGA” statement on fatherhood.
Which brings up the point — if we’re such a representative form of government, why is policy being set at the national level with the “help” of nonprofits with multi-million-dollar budget and whose board members consist of all 50 governors and the leadership of 5 US Territories?
Not to mention, that although there have been 36 US Governors who were women — no woman chaired this NGA until Janet Napolitano of Arizona, and that in 2006. So small wonder it’s all enthusiastic about the fatherhood promotion!
That, and the fact that the fatherhood promotion is simply setting up systems-change programs at all governmental levels, hardly the most transparent setup.
Anyhow, those two links, especially the top one, are quite informative.
I may bring this up again, with the follow-up. it has to do with, simply, the nature of our country and dates back to at least 1934 — and the Social Security Act, plus, before then, the issues of public housing (HUD and HHS programs are absolutely related).
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A Testimony for these Times … (hypothetically before an Appropriations Hearing)
The House Ways and Means Committee should quit funding Welfare Diversions (or child support demonstration programs) to promote “marriage and fatherhood” as an antidote to poverty, when we by now know that’s not its real purpose — at all.
(In my opinion) it is a federally franchised distribution network whose central product, apparently, is trademarked curricula, and those who pay the entrance fees (certifications) can get in on the networking. The fun corresponding part is that, regardless of whether or not this actually helps fathers, children, or reduces poverty, abuse, or is in the public best interest — or not — no one, but almost no one — is ever going to consistently follow through and find out which of the nonprofit grantee corporations, formed precisely to get these grants, stay incorporated or not.
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Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History 