Street address:  295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10017

Blogger Note:  I did the review of tax returns and some of the board of directors BEFORE checking out the website.  Here’s the portion of the “History” page which references their name-change and the Pre-K program.  This is, it says, an organization with over a 100 year history.  As Form 990-PFs don’t show “Date of Incorporation” I wouldn’t know without outside information, or their website:

http://fcd-us.org/about-us/history …

Compared with the nation’s largest philanthropies, FCD’s endowment is modest. Yet FCD has had an impact that exceeds its assets. It has nurtured groundbreaking work in diverse areas of child development – physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. It has been a leader in prevention, in two-generational strategies, and in advocacy for low-income children and their families.

FCD was incorporated as a voluntary agency in New York in 1899, and established as the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children (AACC) in 1908. Voluntary contributions from the public supported AACC until 1944, when substantial funds were received from the estate of Milo M. Belding to honor his wife, Annie K. Belding.

In recognition of its evolving program and of its status as a grantmaking organization, the Association changed its name in 1972 to the Foundation for Child Development. In 1999, FCD celebrated its centennial. Read more about our history in 100 Years of Commitment to Children: Change and Continuity and in Our Basic Dream.

Since 2003, FCD has promoted PreK-3^rd,  [LINK BROKEN; HERE’S A SUBSTITUTE FROM THE FOUNDATION WEBSITE] the seamless continuity of educational experience for children ages three to eight to provide the first initial essential foundation for lifelong learning.  Visit Our Work to learn more.

FCD archives from 1909 – 2000 are located at the Rockefeller Archive Center. To view a description of the collection visit FCD at the Rockefeller Archive Center 1909 -1996 and 1997-2000.

“Briefly” as I like to do with tax returns when there’s other business at hand:

Revenues — no Contributions this year, but it did earn $1.4M from Dividends and Interests on Securities, and $5.4M from “Sale of assets other than inventory.” (total Income, including a small IRS refund!) – $6.9M.

Of this $6.9M, SOME when to “Charitable Activities“: $174,622. (“See Statement 12”) and $157,985 (“See Statement 13”) which combined was probably less than they paid their investment manager LLC (by memory, about $334K) and a project manager ($90K).

Statement 12:

The Foundation for Child Development (<==latest 990-PF shown)Board of Directors includes one HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA, who, as lead author of an article pushing for “Investment in early Education” combined with a stellar biography, international (UN, for sure) connections and globalization interests, not to mention position at the NYU “Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development” already has my attention and is featured as symbolic of the WIDER purposes behind “pre-school for all,” and by that, I mean wider than just in the USA…, although before this article (because I’m not IN those circles) I’d never heard of him…..  I recognize some of the other names also from organizations I’ve looked at before, or in general (i.e., “Morgenthau” ) below, and followed up in Vivian L. Gadsden because I remember that name in a “Fatherhood” context — which in this situation, is very relevant.

Despite the Officers, all officers and directors except Jacqueline Jones (who works FT and is paid — the only paid officer) are volunteers and listed at 0.50 hours/ week:

DAVID LAWRENCE JR. (Dir/ Chairman of the Board)
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

MARGARET BEALE SPENCER (Vice President)
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA (Secretary)
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

ELLEN BERLAND GIBBS (Treasurer)
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

JOHN L. FURTH (Assistant Treasurer)
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

ANDREW D. RACINE
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

EUGENE E. GARCIA
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

JILL BAKER
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

JOSEPH YOUNGBLOOD, II
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

MARGARITA ROSA
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

ROBERT P. MORGENTHAU
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

Just for “kicks” here’s Robert P. Morgenthau in 2004 (starting another firm; grandpa was Secretary of the Treasury under FDR, father (Robert M. Morgenthau) was (very) famous district attorney — for New York County — for a very long term (1975-2009).

In 2013 (age 93) Robert M. was taking up the cause — ironically, for this post — of a man stuck on death row in Alabama.  To get some help with a Friend of the Brief, he called up his buddies (fellow district attorneys) Gil Garcetti in Los Angeles and another in Milwaukee.  (Gil’s son Eric is now Mayor of Los Angeles; Gil is known in my circles for as L.A. District Attorney, allegedly (per Marv Bryer – and then-attorney Richard Fine — sitting on collected child support and NOT DISTRIBUTING it.  A lawsuit, “Silva v. Garcetti” got some of the distribution happening (around the time child support distribution was being moved to a state-wide level anyhow, i.e., to “SDU” in the post-welfare-reform years.  (A reference to “undistributable child support” levels in Alabama (and outside it) is in this post, too)…

Silva v. Garcetti also played a role no doubt, in getting Richard Fine (a) an 18-month coercive confinement, that’s SOLITARY confinement in the Los Angeles County Men’s Jail,  order by a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge (David Yaffe), and (b) disbarred, pretty quickly.

Here’s the NYT Article 3/15/2013, “A case too important to pass up”  (Very interesting article; here’s part of it:)

Robert M. Morgenthau is asking the United States Supreme Court to take on the case of a man held on death row in Alabama for 24 years.  [Photo: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times]

Mr. Morgenthau said. “You say to yourself, ‘Not only is this guy innocent as a matter of law, he’s innocent as a matter of fact.’ I decided I wasn’t just going to sign my name to a piece of paper.”

He contacted Gil Garcetti, who served 32 years in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office, and E. Michael McCann, who was the district attorney of Milwaukee for 38 years, and they agreed to join him in a friend-of-the-court brief.

The opening lines explained why their views were worth hearing: They wrote “from the unique perspective of having overseen and been ultimately responsible for more than 7,000,000 criminal prosecutions.”

Of those seven million, how many were his?  “Three and a half,” Mr. Morgenthau said.

Million? He nodded. “We averaged about 100,000 a year for 35 years,” he said. [paras. combined]

Few people who talked politics with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as Mr. Morgenthau did as a young man, or survived the sinking of a Navy destroyer in the Mediterranean and the torpedoing of another one during World War II, as he did while serving in the Navy, remain active in public affairs.

Now with the firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Mr. Morgenthau spends little time these days on criminal cases. He is fighting for immigration reform

July 12, 2004 in “Pensions & Investments,” by Ricki Fulman, “Head North:  Face-to-Face with Robert P. Morgenthau”

Two years ago, Robert P. Morgenthau and a team of six investment and sales professionals started NorthRoad Capital Management LLC. Mr. Morgenthau had spent 10 years at Lazard Asset Management, New York, starting in 1990 as a portfolio manager. When he left in 2000, he was managing director and global head of marketing and distribution. (His six partners at NorthRoad all had worked at Lazard as well.) He said he decided to leave because he was weary of traveling overseas every six weeks and also wanted to try life at either a very small or very large firm. (Lazard manages $70 billion.) After taking off 11 months to get to know his family again, he became president of private advisory services at Banc of America Capital Management, overseeing 250 portfolio managers responsible for $110 billion around the country. Within six months he realized he didn’t want to work at a very large firm after all. Instead, he decided to build a company from scratch. Bank of America Corp. provided some startup capital, and the remainder came from the seven partners. Mr. Morgenthau — whose grandfather Henry M. Morgenthau Jr. was secretary of the Treasury during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, and whose father, Robert M. Morgenthau, is the highly regarded New York County district attorney — graduated cum laude from Amherst College, with a bachelor of arts in English. His first job in finance was a posting trader on the over-the-counter trading desk at Shearson American Express, New York. He was planning to go on for an MBA, but instead enrolled in the company’s rotational training program in 1982 to learn the business and then moved into asset management as a portfolio manager at Shearson Asset Management. Recently Mr. Morgenthau talked with reporter Ricki Fulman about the challenges of starting a new firm, its goals and strategies.

[His Bio Blurb at the Foundation adds some more company names and affiliations).  The URL has it labeled “chair” ….

“…Bob founded NorthRoad Capital Management, an international and global equity manager, which he sold to Madison Investment Advisors at the end of 2010.

Bob is currently a trustee  of the Museum of Jewish Heritage; A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. He is a director of the Davis Funds, the Riverdale Sanitation Corporation and Bitterroot Enterprises. He is a past trustee of Riverdale Neighborhood House and a former Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.

Bob received a BA in English from Amherst College in 1979.

Such a person can get a masters, or a PhD degree — but certainly doesn’t need one….

VIVIAN L. GADSDEN
295 MADISON AVENUE, 40TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10017

Huh.  By posting these ALL at the organization’s NY Address, it conceals from stray eyes on the return (although presumably the organization website will “tell all” of the affiliations).

In this case I remember this name from recent investigations (my kind….) of yet another “Fatherhood” project — with close collaboration (involvement) of the Denver-based and AFCC-overlapping (personnel), “Center for Policy Research…. Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes, etc.

CPR (who have made post titles in this blog) have a new, or second, website with a lighter, brighter, more “feminine”?? color and MUCH larger words, lighter font). at “centerFORpolicyRESEARCH.org. The other one was subdued, tan, brown, orange and black tones, and hadn’t been updated in years. Perhaps getting too much publicity on blogs (although very few of them) like mine?

(<==the Logo is the link.)

HHS announcement flyer (<==look at the URL) says the new website was to launch in April 2014, and with Foundation for Child Development board member Gadsden among the original few staff mentioned:

As it turns out Dr.[Ed.D.= doctorate level!]  Gadsden is on at least two “Centers” named after fatherhood.  The biography below which mentions the “National Center on Fathers and Families” (which website link at University of Pennsylvania that I was able to find, is no longer current, and I haven’t found the current one) AND, at A “Fathers Research and Practice Network (link to “Team Members”) at Temple University – and supported by HHS Grant #90PR0006 (with #90PR0001,02,03,04 & 05 (going to a single fatherhood organization in D.C.) all having occurred in or around 1995.  THIS one, however, started ca. 2013, is a multi-million-dollar study which is still in progress.  The “Steering Committee on this same site is a virtual “Who’s Who” (many, not all of them) of “Fatherhood Promotion” spokesmen from across the country.

I just discovered (1) a second website for Center Policy Research, and (2) the Steering Committee link at FRPN, which I was only recently re-visiting, as to its funding, personnel, and whether the grants for it were trackable or not.  (Answer — not easily — go look at Temple University financial statements and find this “Network” — and good luck with that….). Next paragraphs in tiny green font are my first-response, taken-aback commentary.  Sorry….

{{The “Steering Committee” of Temple University-based “Fatherhood Research and Practice Network,” which seems to be an HHS initiative. }}

The FRPN steering committee consists of a carefully selected group of fatherhood evaluation researchers, practitioners and policymakers who are leaders in the field. These individuals are responsible for providing direction for the five-year national project, working closely with the FRPN project team to develop and execute various FRPN initiatives.

Christopher A. Brown**

Christopher A. Brown, President, National Fatherhood Initiative

Education: B.A., University of North Texas, M.A., University of South Florida

Read Bio | Send an Email

** For some reason, the webmasters or designers went for BIG letters and tiny thumbnail photos. Maybe some of these people don’t really want facial recognition outside the network?

Carol Burton

Carol Burton, Executive Director, Centerforce

Education:

B.S. and M.S.W., Grand Valley State University

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Natasha Cabrera

Natasha Cabrera, Ph.D., Director of the Family Involvement Laboratory, Associate Professor of Human Development, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methods, College of Education, University of Maryland

Education:

B.S.c. and M.A., University of Toronto, Ph.D., University of Denver

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Andrew Daire

Andrew Daire, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research, College of Education, University of Houston

Education:

B.S., Stetson University, M.S., Stetson University, Ph.D., Florida State University

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Randal D. Day

Randal D. Day, Ph.D., Associate Director of the School of Family Life, Professor, Department of Family Life, Brigham Young University

Education:

B.S. and M.S., Brigham Young University, M.S., University of Wisconsin Madison, Ph.D., Brigham Young University

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Jeffrey M. Johnson

Jeffrey M. Johnson, Ph.D., President and CEO, National Partnership for Community Leadership

Education:

B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

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Waldo E. Johnson

Waldo E. Johnson, Ph.D., Faculty Affiliate with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Education:

B.A., Mercer University, M.S.W., University of Michigan, Ph.D., University of Chicago

Joseph T. Jones

Joseph T. Jones, Jr., Founder, President and CEO, Center for Urban Families

Education:

A.A., Community College of Baltimore, B.A., University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Anne Menard

Anne Menard, CEO, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Education:

B.A., Colby College

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James P. McHale

James P. McHale, Ph.D., Director of the Family Study Center, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida – St. Petersburg

Education:

B.A., University of South Florida, M.S., Tulane University, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley

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Ronald Mincy

Ronald Mincy, Ph.D., Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, School of Social Work, Columbia University

Education:

A.B., Harvard University, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Richard Noriega

Richard Noriega, President and CEO, AVANCE, Inc.

Education:

B.A., University of Houston, M.P.A., Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, US Army Command & General Staff College

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David J. Pate, Jr.

David Pate, Jr., Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Helen Bader School of Social Welfare;  Affiliated Associate Professor at the Institute for Research on Poverty

Education:

B.S.W., University of Detroit, A.M., University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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James Rodriguez

James Rodriguez, President and CEO, Fathers & Families Coalition of America

Education:

M.S.W., Arizona State University

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Jerry Tello

Jerry Tello, NLFFI Director and Lead Trainer, National Latino Fatherhood & Family Institute

Education:

B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills, M.S. Loyola University

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Because I will be publishing another post on this soon (I hope), I won’t elaborate much more than the FCD-US (Foundation for Child Development – in the US, at least) website does, on Vivian L. Gadsden.  While I don’t approve of the use of HHS dollars for the project referenced below (which dollars go to Temple University ,not the smaller organizations with personnel involved — which makes them harder to track), another impression I had was that if someone was going to run the project, she might be more appropriate than Jay Fagan.  Other than, not being a man, that is.  Certainly as well qualified:

Vivian L. Gadsden is the William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gadsden is also on the faculties of Africana Studies and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; serves as director of the National Center on Fathers and Families; and served as associate director of the National Center on Adult Literacy. Dr. Gadsden’s research and scholarly interests focus on children and families across the life-course, from early childhood through the aging process, particularly children and families at the greatest risk for academic and social vulnerability by virtue of race, gender, ethnicity, poverty, and immigrant status. Her conceptual framework, family cultures, has been used widely to examine the interconnectedness among families’ political, cultural, and social histories and racialized identities; social practices; and literacy processes. Her current, collaborative projects include studies of Head Start children’s literacy learning and teacher communities (the EPIC study), family engagement, and parent involvement; young fathers in urban settings; health and educational disparities within low-income communities; children of incarcerated parents; and intergenerational learning within African-American and Latino families.

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In addition to serving on the Board of the Foundation for Child Development, she has served or serves on foundation and Congressionally-mandated review committees, including the Foundation for Child Development’s Young Scholars Program, the Spencer Foundation where she was a Resident Fellow, and a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. She has held leadership roles in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Society for Research in Child Development. Dr. Gadsden also serves on several journal editorial boards and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Educational Researcher, published by AERA. She has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, texts, and reports, including booklength volumes on literacy and African American youth; re-entry of incarcerated parents in the lives of children, families, and communities; and risk, equity, and schooling as well as a forthcoming book volume on children of incarcerated parents. Dr. Gadsden is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

The NCOFF is “housed” in the Graduate School of Education at UPenn.  It’s referenced in the following (web-based?) international network:

The Work and Family Researchers Network (formerly the Sloan Work and Family Research Network), is an international membership organization of interdisciplinary work and family researchers. The WFRN also welcomes the participation of policy makers and practitioners as it seeks to promote knowledge and understanding of work and family issues among the community of global stakeholders.

The WFRN facilitates virtual and face-to-face interaction among work and family researchers from a broad range of fields and engages the next generation of work and family scholars. As a global hub, we provide opportunities for information sharing and networking via our website, which includes the only open access work and family subject matter repository, the Work and Family Commons.

Your support will help to advance, promote, and preserve interdisciplinary work and family scholarship and move the field forward.

HISTORY (diff’t link):

The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) carries on the legacy of the Sloan Work and Family Research Network, the premier online destination for work and family research from 1997-2010. In November 2010, Jerry A. Jacobs and Judi C. Casey received a final grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that supported the creation of a new membership and virtual organization, WFRN. To acknowledge the community-driven nature of our website and the importance of members to the success of the organization, we changed the name from “Research” to “Researchers.”

Judi was WFRN’s Director through 2014 following her tenure as Director of the Sloan Network from 2005-2010. Jerry was WFRN’s Founding President and continues to serve as its Executive Officer. Katheen Christensen led the Workforce, Workplace and Working Families Program at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and has served as an Ex-Officio member of WFRN’s Executive Committee since its inception.

Why did the Network change? 

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Funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation had allowed the Sloan Network to provide all its resources to users free of charge since it began operating in 1997. Although the former Sloan Network was highly valued by its users, the earned income potential from products and services was not enough to cover operating costs. The new and enhanced Work and Family Researchers Network continues the efforts of the original Network and the legacy established by the Sloan Foundation.

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What is different?

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One of the major changes from the Sloan Network to the WFRN is the transformation from a staff-driven enterprise to a member-driven one. Members will take leadership roles in running all facets of the organization, and in providing content of interest to the interdisciplinary work and family research community. WFRN also functions as a virtual hub between meetings, with the News Feed and the Work and Family Commons providing open access free of charge to researchers, practitioners, policy maker and the general public. The transformation from the Sloan Network to WFRN coincided with a move to the University of Pennsylvania instead of Boston College. The Executive Office of WFRN is now located at the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School. 

Interesting, if it was formerly at Boston College under the Alfred P. Sloan foundation.  Boston College (vs. “University”) is Jesuit.

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Where are the resources that were on the former Network website?  

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We have done our best to archive the most popular content from the Sloan Network on this new website of the Work and Family Researchers Network, and make it available to you. However, information has not been updated since the summer of 2011. In some cases, information is older than 2011. The Sloan Network closed in February 2012.

*We are very appreciative of the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the Work and Family Researchers Network.

So, the virtual networking (especially for those who join and become members) is of course by definition international with a focus on subject matter.  This is in complete coherence/compliance with the pushing of “FUNCTIONALISM” (“David Mitrany” London School of Economics, searchable terms) in “Outflanking National Sovereignty”…  But the NCOFF is at the EDUCATION School at UPenn:

https://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/archive/links/national-center-fathers-and-families-1

Housed in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, The National Center on Fathers and Families (NCOFF) is “an interdisciplinary policy research center…dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children.” 

It is unusually hard to find a website labeled “National Center on Fathers and Families” however this faculty page a UPenn GSE shows the background of it, and Vivian Gadsden’s faculty page

Vivian L. Gadsden

William T. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education
Director, National Center on Fathers and Families
Associate Director, National Center on Adult Literacy

Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania [tel# and email available at the link]

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EDUCATION:

BA (Psychology and English) Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1978. EdD (Educational Psychology and Policy) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988.

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Dr. Gadsden began her career teaching developmental English, reading, and educational psychology at Oakland and Wayne State Universities in Michigan. From 1983 to 1985, she was a research analyst at Policy Studies Associates in Washington, D.C. In 1988, Dr. Gadsden joined Penn GSE’s Literacy Research Center, where she became associate director in 1989. A former Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Gadsden served as associate director in the National Center on Adult Literacy for six years. In 1994, she became the director of the newly founded National Center on Fathers and Families, an interdisciplinary policy research center focused on child and family well-being. She also served as Education Graduate Group Chair from 1996 to 2004. In 2006, she was named the William T. Carter Professor in Child Development and Education.

She is an active member of the American Educational Research Association, serving as vice president of Division G, Social Contexts of Education from 2003 to 2006; the Society for Research in Child Development, serving as co-executive officer of the Black Caucus and program co-chair for the 2009 biennial meeting; . . .

 (logo= the link):

Policy Studies Associates (PSA) conducts research in education and youth development. Founded in 1982, PSA believes in the importance of using accurate information to guide decision making about education and youth development. …

PSA’s clients include federal, state, and local government agencies, foundations, and other organizations that aim to use high-quality data to make policy decisions. PSA’s evaluation and research studies have helped these organizations to:

(Prior studies — at least back to 1989 — are posted, I picked out only two):

 The Afterschool Alliance (also based in Washington, D.C.) describes itself as:

The nation’s leading voice for afterschool programs.

The Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments to ensure that all children have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs.

Our goals

• To be an effective voice for afterschool in efforts to expand quality afterschool programs.
• To serve as an information source on afterschool programs and resources.
• To encourage the development of local, state and national afterschool constituencies and systems.
• To communicate the impact of afterschool programs on children, families and communities.

Our history

The Afterschool Alliance was established in 2000 by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, J.C. Penney Company, Inc., the Open Society Institute/The After-School Corporation, the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Creative Artists Agency Foundation.

It is absolutely fair on my part to say that ALL of this “Public/Private Partnership” using the USDOE as primary (only listed) FEDERAL AGENCY FUNDER, apart from the USDOE, were operating in the tax-exempt field, and mostly utterly well to do ones as well, except “J.C. Penney, Company.  Read the above paragraph — all these want more (and more, and more) public funds to pay for programming which will be controlled by the after-school tax-exempt funders (and probably using the for-profit curricular, or “technical assistance and training” they provide.

Meanwhile, any and all parents, especially single mothers, should go find employment at some of the corporations behind some of these foundations, presumably.  One thing is clear — a power divide is taking place which ASSUMES that the typical school day and class situation is good for all, good for the economy and good for the people.   [Afterschool Alliance FUNDERS page — take a looK!]

The Afterschool Alliance grew from public awareness efforts undertaken by the Mott Foundation through an unprecedented, public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Education to expand afterschool programs through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers afterschool program. The federal government provided grants to local communities for afterschool programs, while the Mott Foundation funded training, evaluation and public awareness activities. The Foundation and the Department’s efforts caught the attention of several outside entities with a shared interest in achieving afterschool for all. These groups came together in September 1999 to create the Afterschool Alliance.

As with the “Society for Research in Child Development” (tax returns shown above, but not this detail from the tax returns) I noticed an unusually high expense on Part IX Line 11g (“Other”) and so looked it up on Schedule O at the back, and found $595,891 consisted of:

POLICY CONSULTANTS PROGRAM SERVICE B(PENSES 124,476 MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL BKPENSES 0 FUNDRAISING BKPENSES 0 TOTAL BKPENSES 124,476RESEARCH CONSULTANTS PROGRAM SERVICE ECPENSES 189,550 MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL EXPENSES 0 FUNDRAISING EXPENSES 0 TOTAL EXPENSES 189 ,550PROGRAM CONTRACTORS PROGRAM SERVICE EXPENSES 279,339 MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL ECPENS
ES 2,526 FUNDRAISING EXPENSES 0 TOTAL EXPENSES 281,865

How about $2 to closing in on $3 Billion in Total Assets as a little financial weight to throw around?

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OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE (with the following EIN#) is just one of several controlled entities (see list near the end of the tax return), including one 501©4 — several at the same street address.  It is a real “thing to behold” — you have to actually scroll through to sense the scope of activity.  I’m certainly not going to describe it here!

I will say for whoever is preparing the tax returns, unlike MANY I read, there are actually detailed descriptions of what the grants are going to, whether it’s to individuals (many people being sponsored in obtaining their PhDs at a variety of American Universities) or organizations.  This next list is just some of the, it says, som eof the charitable activities (that’s not including  $454Million of grants distributed — as opposed to about $202M contributions that year (2012 I looked at).

/ NIEER at Rutgers University / Center for Child and Family Well-Being and “the Future of Children” at Princeton / Frank Porter Institute for Child Development at UNC-Chapel Hill (since 1966!), and I found a more recent “Buffet Institute for Early Childhood” (or similar title) at University of Nebraska (all four campuses, and some foundation wealth as well as high-profile professionals involved) (there, it’s Susie Buffet (donor) and Samuel J. Miesel, formerly of the (Chicago-based) Erikson Institute (a nonprofit institute of higher — meaning graduate level– education; it trains early childhood workers ,family social services workers, etc.)  — that’s on other posts.

Buffet Early Childhood fund pushing “EduCare Schools” and stating it’s being evaluated Nationally by the Frank Porter Graham institute…: Notice the combo here:  A private Fund named after a philanthropist, what I’ll bet is a PUBLIC or Public-funded (“Ounce of Prevention”) Fund in Illinois named after its purpose, a no-doubt trade-marked/proprietary “deliverable” (the “Educare” schools) and someone authoritative to evaluate it ((the Frank Porter Graham Institute in UNC):

• Particular the use of the word “Institute” carries some weight in common understanding (although it’s now in such common use for almost anything, it shouldn’t.  This one DOES qualify, but many don’t really).  An institute could also be AT a university or a nonprofit, or itself a nonprofit. Or, it could be a free-standing institution, I suppose, of higher education.   )

The Buffett Early Childhood Fund and the Ounce of Prevention Fund in Illinois are working with partners in communities across America to create state-of-the-art Educare schools to better prepare young children for success in school. Each Educare provides high-quality early care and education to 140-200 infants, toddlers and preschoolers growing up in low-income families. With 21 Educare schools, the Educare Learning Network shapes a new way of doing business when it comes to delivering early care and education to our nation’s most at-risk children and families. Plus, each Educare serves as a catalyst for programmatic and policy change throughout its community and state. Our work is being evaluated nationally by the Frank Porter Graham Institute at the University of North Carolina.

Unless a person begins to look at some of the networked interests — and understand the business models involved (where the University Center — the “premier professional” (often in Psychology, Education, or Sociology) who direct the centers — the tax-exempt philanthropists who donate BIG to some of the centers — the entrepreneurs leaving Wall Street and its hedge funds and junk bonds (really!) moving into a more profitable area with an infrastructure already built for them, i.e., the public schools and welfare rolls, among other things (Educare, Acelero, Inc. in NY, etc.) and even the supported education-journalism entities, such as California’s EdSource or, I recently learned of a “Hechinger Report” at Teachers College at University of Columbia” )

EdSource is a nonprofit based in Oakland, California, but ONE look at its Board of Directors shows that almost all of them are, or were, working for government — typically school districts, with the exception of someone from Hewlett Packard, someone in Radio.  This is from its Beliefs, etc. page:

Belief Statement

EdSource believes that access to a quality education is an important right of all children. We further believe that an informed, involved public is necessary to strengthen California’s schools for the benefit of the state’s children, its civic life and its economy.

Goals

EdSource works to engage Californians on key education challenges with the goal of enhancing learning success. It does so by providing timely, useful and accurate information to key education stakeholders and the larger public;  advancing awareness of major education initiatives being implemented in California and nationally; and highlighting effective models and strategies intended to improve student outcomes, as well as identifying areas that are in need of repair or reform.

History

Over a period of more than three decades, EdSource has established its reputation as a highly respected source of education information, research and analysis. It has now emerged as the pre-eminent multi-media education platform for the state, which with over 6 million students is the largest and most diverse public education system in the nation.

Since its founding in 1977, EdSource has broadened its focus to include a broad range of education reforms, including early education and preschools, charter schools, school accountability, STEM education, teacher evaluation and obstacles students face in the math pipeline from pre-kindergarten to college. In 2012, it launched its journalism and communications arms, EdSource Today, which now comprises the largest education reporting staff of any newsroom in the state.

The expertise of EdSource’s staff of reporters, writers, and communication and outreach specialists is strengthened by a statewide Board of Directors made up of distinguished leaders from diverse education constituencies

MORE DIALOGUE and OCSE GRANTS TABLES from 7/26/2011 post

NOTE:  these are GRANTS only — for contracts, plus grants, plus loans, plus (etc.) one would have to hop on over to another database, such as USASPENDING.gov.  however (the thing is) with both of those, the amounts are provided from the agencies themselves; there might be a better way to actually see what went out (like the individual state grants received documents, etc.) There are also SPECIAL PROJECTS for Child Support — CFDA 93601..

NOW, what exactly are those projects?  I decided to take a look (FY 2010) and recognize quite a few names – especially the first one here:

I’ll look up a few [RECIPIENT ORGANIZATIONS or GOVT ENTITIES] (that I know less about, for example, Karen Oehme in FL is a known position….): MICHAEL MAGNANI in NY (apparently relates to a Drug Court): Michael Magnani Director Division of Grants and Program Development New York State Unified Court System 25 Beaver Street, 11th Floor New York, NY 10004 Phone: 212-428-2109 Fax: 212-428-2129 Email: mmagnani@courts.state.ny.usFor example:

Tuscaloosa Family Resource Center, Inc.

EIN#63-12904,   [That’s short two digits#, actually 63-1212904]

I looked this one up at NCSSDATAWEB.org — revenues showing over $2 million. 990 nonprofit purpose:

“TO EMPOWER FAMILIES BY PROVIDING SUPPORT SERVICES THAT DEVELOP SKILLS AND RESOURCES TO IMPROVE THE FAMILY’S QUALITY OF LIFE, PREPARE THEIR CHILDREN FOR SUCCESS IN A COMPETITIVE SOCIETY, AND ALLOW EACH INDIVIDUAL TO REALIZE HIS OR HER POTENTIAL FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY”

With this nonprofit purpose, I shoulda been a nonprofit as a mere parent — this is what parents generally do!   They basically want to be some other family’s “family.”     So at what point is this outsourced to nonprofit organizations instead, supported by federal grants?  

‘Howsabout’ empowering parents by consistently refusing to violate their fundamental rights as individuals and help keep YOUR local neck of government honest and accountable for its use of OUR money (via IRS, or wage-garnishments in child support programs, or sales taxes, etc.) and your officials, accountable for its use of all program funds?

Their 2010 IRS filed Form 990 shows program income revenues ZERO; contributions and grants, $2,082,707 — considerably higher than last year (which was $1,917,454) of which $2.5K (roughly — and lower than last year’s which was over $6K) INVESTMENT income.  There are 17 officers and directors… Part III, #4, they are required to report have a ‘Statement of Program Service Accomplishments” (with  expenses and revenues — and this section is blank.!  This is the section that justifies the tax-exempt purpose.  Instead, they simply re-stated their purpose (not what they actually DID)… and claimed that doing (whatever) cost “$1,968, 563” “All Other Achievements Description” — (after a number of blank pages of the form — and this is a statement, not an “achievement”) reads: FORM 990, PAGE PART I,LINE 4D (the part I just noted was blank, but shouldn’t have been……)

“CHILDREN’S TRUST FUND OF ALABAMA AND DHHS GRANT AND FAMILY RESOURCE PROGRAM GRANT USED TO PAY SALARIES AND EXPENSES OF DHR CASE CONTRACTS FOR THE COUNTY AND CITY OF TUSCALOOSA AND TO PAY TFRC SALARIES AND EXPENSES RELATED TO CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMS”

“Organization’s process to review Form 990″:  ” NO REVIEW WAS OR WILL BE CONDUCTED”  (that seems obvious.  AFter all, it’s only $2 million, right?)

“GOVERNING DOCUMENTS DISCLOSURE EXPLANATION FORM 990, PAGE 6, PART VI, LINE 19 NO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC” Here are a bunch of directors:   “

• TONYA ADAMS-NELSON DIRECTOR
• CARLA BAILEY DIRECTOR
• AVANTI BAKER DIRECTOR
• ELIZABETH BEEMER DIRECTOR
• MARY BETH CAVERT DIRECTOR
• ROBERT WHALLI JR DIRECTOR
• HELENE HIBBARD DIRECTOR
• ALISON HUDNAIL DIRECTOR
• TOM LEDBETTER DIRECTOR
• AMANDA MULKEY DIRECTOR
• SANDRA RAY DIRECTOR
• MIKE RUSSELL DIRECTOR
• TAMMY YAGER DIRECTOR
• KIM THOMA BAILEY PRESIDENT
• DEBRA NELSON -GARDELL VICE-PRES
• STEVEN K CASE TREASURER
• LESLIE GUY SECRETARY

(Alabama has been dealing with tornado damages…) solicitation (same address) from a group dealing with youth homelessness:There’s a blog and this shows a history — of TOP spot Family Resource Center.  It began (like many nonprofits) with someone formerly in government social service work, and a grant of $80,000 — not bad for a startup:

What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been

In 1999, a group of concerned community members came together to create the East Tuscaloosa Family Resource Center, Inc. The goal was to create a place where underserved members of the Tuscaloosa community could come to gain access to services that were already available in other parts of town. The board of directors hired as the agency’s first executive director Teresa Costanzo, a social worker with management experience as the director of the Hale County Department of Human Resources. The budget in that initial year was $80,000; there were three employees.

Teresa’s Vision:

Very soon, Teresa’s vision began to exceed the limits of east Tuscaloosa, so, in 2001, the board of directors decided to drop the “East” from the name, making it the Tuscaloosa Family Resource Center, Inc. The agency [TECHNICALLY, it’s a “nonprofit” not an agency] continued to grow, as did the array of services provided. Soon, the community began to think of the agency as a “one-stop-shop” for a wide array of family needs. In an effort to reflect this perception of the agency, the board decided to begin operations under the business name Tuscaloosa’s One Place, a Family Resource Center.

Through the years, many of our services have changed. We now offer many school-based programs, several career-development programs, an on-site adult education program, an English-as-a-second-language program, healthy relationship programs, a juvenile detention alternative initiative, a Hispanic outreach program, and home visitation programs, to name a few of our services. We press approximately 800 volunteers, from all walks of life, into service for our community every year, and that number is growing. Our budget for the most recent fiscal year was approximately $1.5 million; we now have approximately 25 full-time employees and 80 temporary or part-time employees. To say that we’ve changed would be an understatement.Through all these changes, though, the agency’s constant has been its executive director. Teresa continues to be at the forefront of everything TOP does. Her oversight has been and still is the key factor in the agency’s place in the community.

And she got $100K of “Child Support Special Resource & Demonstration” project funds.  Recently. ALABAMA UNDISTRIBUTED CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS(posted in an Iowa Fathers’ group), 2005:

(Columns:   NET, PENDING & % of NET (cols. 2&3) Unresolved & % of NET(last 2) Fatherhood Groups tend to be up on Where is the Money Going? — as here (but as we look below, TANF money IS being diverted to Fatherhood programs, at $30 to $50K a pop; and I have a 2011 list)  In that link, I see the group complaining that money was given to the Administrative Office of the Courts, and not “promoting responsible fatherhood”  (??the courts are where that promotion would be most likely to take effect!) MEANWHILE, this appears to be an outfit offering MARRIAGE CLASSES with a “Focus on the Family” (very strong) emphasis = NOT good.  See:

Marriage Classes/Curriculum 1. Classes Offered by Tuscaloosa’s One Placee. ** www.etfrc.org, P.O. Box 40764, 870 Redmont Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404 (205) 462- 1000 (Contact Wanda Martin, wmartin@etfrc.org Relationship/ Marriage Educator, Family Support Specialist; or D’Undray Peterson,

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www.etfrc.org They have the solicitation part of the website all nicely set up:

We also accept monetary donations to support our programs. Because we are a non-profit social service agency, all donations are tax deductible. Please mail or deliver monetary donations to our offices, conveniently located in Alberta City or click below. Become a fan on Facebook!!

There’s the “Home visitation” services under “Parenting” and here is the “Let’s Help Dad with His Custody Case” (reduced or free legal fees) segment. Dads who are not actually getting legal results from these grants should complain to their local legislator, because that’s the purpose (also, for each State to conduct social experimentation at the direction of the Secretary of HHS, as 45 CFR 303.109declares): Apart from trouble with using the word “assist” or “assisting” correctly, this segment appears to have been part of the “special demonstration” funded program, above?  Tax-funded, so noncustodial MOTHERS can know that their tax dollars, if they are employed, are going to the good cause of a nonprofit organization taking advantage of its tax-exempt status to help connect the fathers with REDUCED-FEE OR FREE LEGAL SERVICES, no doubt to also help them with custody matters as well.

D.A.D.S. Program (Dads Are Dynamite)

The DADS program is designed to assist non-custodial fathers comply {{“in complying”}} with child support obligations. Participants in this program will receive job search assistance as well as learn skills to strengthen their relationship with their child and his or her primary caregiver. DADS participants receive individualized case management services, which includes assisting those fathers who are underemployed become {{“in becoming”}} gainfully employed.

One night per week, fathers will participate in a class/support session to discuss issues unique to non-custodial fathers. ** Legal services are also available to fathers at either a free or reduced fee.  Fathers interested in voluntarily participating in this program should contact Tuscaloosa’s One Place to schedule an initial intake. Call David De Shazo at (205) 462-1000 to sign up.

**if these are unique to noncustodial fathers, they do not apply to noncustodial mothers.  They are family court &/or child support matters.

HOPEFULLY no one providing such services has any inappropriate relationships with (a) any family court judges or (b) program disbursement authorities in any of the grants being used to assist the fathers, such as we found (1999) in the Karen Anderson, Amadaor County (CA) case, where her ex-husband’s attorney just so happened to also have authority over the A/V funds, and just-so happened to also be in business? with a little nonprofit outfit receiving those funds…..

$1,500 of Tuscaloosa’s 2011 proposed Community Developmt Block Grant going to this DADS program

However “DADs are DYNAMITE” got $50,000 — from TANF funds — in The CHildren’s Trust Fund in this (Alabama Dept of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention )

THE LINK above IS LOADED WITH FATHERHOOD FUNDING (DESIGNATED “TANF” ON THE RIGHT COLUMN AS WELL)  — PLS. BROWSE.   Clearly the way to reduce childhood abuse and neglect is to dedicate public funds to fatherhood policies, including some that will provide legal help (reduce/low-fee) in their child support and most likely child custody/visitation cases — which the mothers do NOT have a source of legal help for, for the most part.  How does that work out when the reason for separation (or not cohabiting) was abuse to start with?

Other groups that received from this fund (dated March, 2011) include:

Grantee / Program / Source / $$

• Baldwin County Fatherhood Initiative, Inc./ (same)- TANF funding – $50K  [for-profit, inc. 2004]
• Alfred Saliba Family Services Center / Saliba Center Fatherhood – TANF funding – $40K
• Autauga County Family Support Center / “DADS” / TANF – $40K
• Family Guidance Center of Alabama / Fatherhood Program / TANF – $5oK
• Family Services Center of Coffee County / Coffee County Fatherhood Initiative / TANF – $35K [Non-profit, reg. 1998, but no reports since 1999 and where is the EIN#?  Cotter R. Rainer, III, purpose “assist families in need of prevention” at 203 EAST LEE STREET

ENTERPRISE, AL (currently an attorney’s office, Tindol- M. Chad & Cotter- R. Rainer- III Attorney) ACTUALLY — here is a Youtube 41second blurbon this one (date?) — I think it’s being offered at the courthouse, a judge announced:

The judge says the program will help the non-custodial parent pay his child support and have a relationship with his child.

Coffee County District Court Judge Paul Sherling says the state court system has awarded grant money to the county for a fatherhood initiative. He says that when a person charged with nonpayment appears in court and says he can’t afford to pay, he’ll have an alternative.

The program will direct the parent to a 12-week seminar program designed to help him find ways to earn income and pay for his child. The fatherhood initiative will be offered through the Coffee County Family Services Center.

This “eprise” site is interesting — because along with this article, are several others involving, for example, child abuse, murder, and complaints that the courts are short of money: this site states who helped get this money.

County gets almost $45,000 for fatherhood program

• A new program designed to help fathers help their children has received a financial boost. District Judge Paul Sherling announced that Coffee County has been awarded nearly $45,000 from the state court system to fund a fatherhood initiative.
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• An Enterprise man was sentenced to 90 years in prison on six charges involving sexual abuse of three minor children.District JudgePaul Sherling sentenced Jack Ellis Hockemeyer, 54, to serve 15 years in state prison on each charge, with the sentences to run concurrently, meaning he will serve a maximum of 15 years.Sherling imposed the sentence Tuesday afternoon following Hockemeyer’s guilty plea on one count of sexual abuse of  child under age 12 and five counts of second-degree sodomy involving minors over age 12, but under age 16ENTERPRISE, Ala. —      The 12th Circuit District Attorney Office’s recent child support roundup was its most successful to date, collecting more than $25,000 for Coffee County families. Assistant District AttorneyChris Kaminski said, as of Friday, the office has collected $25,573.69. Five more people remained in the Coffee County Jail on cash bonds, which will increase the total, he added. Kaminski said Friday’s total was “by far the best we’ve had.” From late March until April 8, the DA’s office allowed anyone behind on child support payments to catch up or arrange a plan without a penalty. Twelfth Circuit District AttorneyTom Anderson said about 80 percent of this year’s collections were obtained during that period.
  

  Former Elba lawman {stepfather} charged with torture, willful abuse of child

  (and let out on $5K bail after THIS:)

A 3-year-old child is now in the custody of the Coffee County Department of Human Resources after his stepfather was arrested and charged with torture/willful abuse of a child.  {{WHERE WAS MOM!??!}} Coffee County Sheriff’s Office Chief DeputyRonnie Whitworth said the child’s grandfather reported the incident to law enforcement authorities. Jeffery Hayes Fuller, 28, of County Road 349, Elba, was arrested and charged with the Class C felony Dec. 22. Fuller is reportedly a former Elba policeofficer and a former firefighter. Whitworthsaid the baby was found badly bruised in the buttocks region with blood coming from the wounds.  Fuller reportedly confessed to paddling the child with a hand-gripped paddle, then placing the child on a hot pad and then rubbing peroxide on the wounds. Fuller was released from the Coffee County Jail on a $5,000 bond and ordered by JudgePaul Sherling to have no contact with the child. Whitworth said the case remains under investigation. (SORRY about all those extra hyperlinks)…..

REPEAT THE MANTRA:  Fatherhood training will reduce child abuse and prevent it……  Here’s a 30 yr old Army Sgt caught with 18 videos of child porn (same judge, which is how it came up)  – he’s in jail. . . . .    “The child pornography evidence against Hogan includes 18 videos and pictures of him sexually assaulting 2 out-of-state girls, ages 8 and 10. Authorities arrested Hogan Jan. 28 on charges of second-degree possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and felony possession of a controlled substance.”

THIS “family services center” appears to be not just a regular nonprofit, but one of the many situations that appear to be a public/private project involving an actual building; it was dedicated in 1998, per this article (and also articles of incorporation):

Coffee County Family Services Center receives 2010-2011 Children’s Trust Fund grant funding

Check presented in the amount of $103,400

Linda HodgeThursday, Dec 02,2010

Elected officials, officials from the Alabama Department of Abuse and Neglect Prevention and the board of directors of the Coffee County Family Services Center all gathered Tuesday morning, Nov. 30, in Enterprise, Ala. for the announcement of the 2010-11 Children’s Trust Fund grant funding. Coffee County Family Services Center received $103,400 from the Children’s Trust Fund to be used for child abuse and neglect prevention programs. “I can not tell you how much we appreciate this money and their (Alabama Dept. of Abuse and Neglect Prevention) support of our programs,” said Judy Crowley, executive director of the Coffee County Family Services Center.

The Coffee County Family Services Center opened its doors in 1998, and Crowley said that also was the first year the local organization received grant funding from the Children’s Trust Fund for assessment referral, which remains a number one priority today as the programs most highly utilized area.  In regards to the 2010-11 grant funding announced Tuesday morning, Crowley said the monies will be used also to assist with all child abuse and neglect prevention programs, as well as, the Building Blocks program and the new Fatherhood Initiative program.

This is a listed nonprofit (Here’s the 2009 “990 “filing from NCCSDATA.org — though mostly blank, it confirms that it gets about $265K grants/contributions per yr and Judith Crowley earns only around $40K.  There is no description of services provided . . . . . it does have an EIN# (721374603 ) Heritage Training and Career Center, Inc / Faithful Fathers Fatherhood Program / TANF – $30K (THERE are 11 pages of this, and I don’t feel like going through all – -most pages have several, not just one or two, fatherhood programs on them) Any of these can be looked up (for example, the last one shows at the Alabama Secretary of State site as existing, yes, as of 2007 — and as a nonprofit, but I don’t see any filings yet.   ”

This group (under a “Cynthia Brown”) when I looked up the street address, is a “New or Rejoined Nonprofit” member of the Montgomery chamber of commerce:

A “Billy W. Jarrett Construction Co., Inc.” at this address apparently got a contract (for a North Carolina Military project) …. There are also 5 entities, some LLC’s  incorporated (or registered agent) by a “Cynthia Brown,”(without middle initial)  not that this isn’t a common name…

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(**text was original, borders and emphasis added).
(A LINK from the TUSCOLOOSA ONE-STOP group)

Alabama Community Healthy Marriage Initiative

AGAIN, here is the child support funding for “Regular” (not “research and special demonstration”) child support.  In each State, County — your county — what does this translate to, and who is watching?  Who is profiting — are the children subject to the child support order profiting, and is this consistently effective in reducing TANF expenditures?

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CFDA 93.593, “CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT” Grants to States — selected Years 2010 & 2011   

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Also for scope, the chart should show how which agency gets this varies from state to state. The “activity type” is at all times described as “SOCIAL SERVICES” and note that the grants type is either NEW, or Administrative Supplement/Discretionary — meaning, they asked for more… I left blank the column Private Investigator — because it’s agencies getting the monies. Keep in mind also that some states farm out the responsibilities to private contractors, some of whom I have been researching, and the large ones of which have been in several cases caught in major money-laundering or fraud. This is good to keep in mind when considering how quickly one state (South Carolina) is to contribute (further) to the racial inequality in the US prison system by jailing low-income black males for nonpayment of child support — and then going to the public and complaining that the child support system is unfair to low-income black males (although the literature saying this typically calls the males “fathers” and the mothers’ households, “female-headed households” as if they were domesticated breeding stock (which, viewed in certain lights, they are…. being treated as). FOR A SAMPLE of this chart

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2016 Update (I will use this background-color for this post to indicate):

 Re: next quoted paragraph (below this 2016 update box), I’m unsure if it was referring to the table just above it (I think so), or the one below it, which I will try to recreate, and leave as a link, after this next quote. I also see at the bottom of the post, the system generates apparently related posts, which appeared then as:

“Related”

Is OCSE Footloose in Tuscaloosa? (a.k.a., “When Nonprofits Exist JUST to attract Healthy Marriage/Fatherhood/Child Support Grants”)In “History of Family Court”

“TAGG” you’re It: CFDA 93.086 Grantees– Let Me Count The Ways (to distribute $121,077,648 on the same old theme, re-shrinkwrapped)…In “AFCC”

Let’s Eliminate OCSE — the Office of Child Support Enforcement — and why. In “Business Enterprise”

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There is also a very interesting comment from “Robert Trap” on the original 7/26/2011 post, about his case in Alaska versus L.A. County  Other than that, the comment were a few pingbacks (internal to this post) and one of my own comments expanding on the theme.

COMMENT from reader “Robert Trap”:

In 1999, I filed an alaska federal suit, Long V. LA. County, (4AK. Defendants), in part for Alaska, and LA. County, supported by documents falsely using fraudulent cssd, actions against me to defraud the federal child support enforcement grant program-by keeping the dead and other fraudulent cases on state list records to defraud the feds, from 1999, to 2012, I have discovered just how far into Criminality the governments will go to maintain this fraud, even prevailing in the federal courts does not end it, Alaska, actually effected the takings on the federal suit legal cost award to create a lien based on the same court ruled illegal original actions the award was in relief to, the judge suborns this, bullets I have discovered really are the only way to fix this, if some one else has another idea that will work let me know, as I will be in the media head line in Alaska, before long! Trapper. Xtrapper@hotmail.com.

(Trapper), Robert A. Long

September 9, 2012 at 10:36 am Edit

 A kind of frightening comment, see original for my response at the time. ….

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This is 500 names (at least, the search results were sorted to show 500 names at a time) of approximately 1,308 names. I’m not sure why several years displayed, i.e., why a 2009 date would show up. However, the point is to get an idea of where & how much money is hitting is inbound, at least the state level.

As this is PUBLIC money, anyone has a right to find out what is the local public payroll, how grants are being spent, who is allocating them to whom (Subgrants). Some of this can be looked up on-line and some can be formed in a FOIA letter, which by law, has to be responded to in a certain time frame. It may not be, but it is a legal right to request public information.

AT ANY POINT — it’s appropriate to ask what are these grants being used for

They are Smaller, but they are in positions of influence, including some courts. ALSO notice the ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT / DISCRETIONARY BLOCK category seems the main category (sometimes being adjusted downward). If I looked only at “NEW” grants for (YRS — “All”, i.e., database goes back to 1995). Notice how active Center for Policy Research is — hardly surprising: Jessica Pearson was a co-founder of AFCC (Per Liz Richards[NAFCJ.net]) and this Denver-based organization is often working the Child Support Field. The for-profit arm is Policy Studies, Inc. — CPR is the smaller, leaner, nonprofit…This table has 224 rows; I will also upload it here, for easier viewing: ///
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[2016 additions/chart replacement(s) for that 7/26/2011 post]

I had to individually check all Fiscal Years up to 2011 (Year “1992” not available to check).  This won’t be exactly identical to the one I ran halfway through 2011 as you cannot select only on an END date without supplying a beginning date.  Also, it appears (I checked several pages) that these are all under CFDA 93601 — and so I omitted that column in the results.

http://TinyURL.com/gq92x53 = the table of results, with these totals! (about 11 pp, 25/page):

It sorts by left-most column (Award#), but I encourage clicking on different columns for sorts, including Recipient name, state, or whatever.  I included “Accounting year” since I left off “Fiscal year.”  See TAGGS for description of the difference, which I don’t currently understand (Accounting Year is a new search option…..)

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Data Fiscal Year: 

2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1991

Award Number:  90FI0[nnn]

Report Total:  $16,418,610

Distinct Award Count:  263

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Alphabetizing by Recipient name, how’s THIS for an interesting (almost) $100K grant, 90FI0038 in Milwaukee?

Data FY Recipient Name DUNS City St CFDA Num CFDA Program Title Budgt Year Action Date OP DIV Action Amount Data FY: 2001 2001 Christian Family Gathering MIL-WAUKEE WI 93601 Child Support Enforcement Demonstrations and Special Projects 1 2/9/2001 ACF $99,895 $99,895

At TAGGS.hhs.gov, I found you still cannot enter a DUNS# as a Search Criteria under “Advanced Search” so I couldn’t get “Center for Policy Research” grants to display by themselves — because there’s a similarly named organization, also in Denver.  There is also no option for “exact phrase” or “contains” under recipient NAME search.  So I cannot show you the several different spellings and wordings of the principal investigator names (Jessica Pearson, Jessica Phearson, Dr. Nancy Thoennes” (Both Pearson & Thoennes have PhDs and so could be called “Dr.”) etc.  But here’s a total by the organization’s DUNS# — it seems small, however, they also get contracts and are very active in several fields related to the subject matter of this blog.  See organization website (and/or other posts herein) for more information.

Export Options:

 The last one, which functionally  is “generate a link” isn’t labeled.  Interesting…

Recipient Name	DUNS	City	State	ZIP Code	County	Ctry	Type	Class	Sum of Awards
CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH	14938 7185	DENVER	CO	80218-1450	DENVER	USA	Research Institu-tion, Founda-tion and Labor-atory	Non-Profit Private Non-Government Organizations	$449,600

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