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Do You Know Your EDC (EIN#04-2241718 in Massachusetts)? Or Why It Became a Greenbook Initiative ~Evaluation Partner~ Alongside ICF International and the NCSC? If Not, Pls. Look Now! [Orig. 11/15/2016, Rev. & made “Sticky” 6/24/2017][and “UNstuck” 1/27/2018]
Massachusetts Corporation/Business Entity Search (although EDC is a Delaware legal domicile entity with a MA address). What’s a bit odd about the master page is that EDC is NOT labeled “nonprofit” although it seems to be one:
<==Click to read image to left: edcEin042241718-43-foundry-ave-waltham-ma-annotated-ext-master-page-topscrshot-2016-12-14-png
if needed, click here to read officer list full-sized.
Click on “All Filings” on the “master page” which comes up (after click on organization name) to view some older listings of officers showing their affiliations.
[See next fine-print, light-blue “lost the reference” paragraph. I found it again, reprinted, annotated here.
Gail T.P. Wickes @EDC (since 1973) made some serious ripples as Gail Thain Parker, 1st woman President of Bennington College, VT. Part of issue behind her resignation dealt with her “futures” plan to rescue it financially; she said, too many tenured professors. I can see why, if there is a connection, Ted Sizer at CES and/or Brown U. might want her. See published books.
Click image to enlarge the annotated image; but click HERE for the associated EDC registration in MA (1970s) listing first officers and Board as shown above.
I looked up the almost-NO women-on-the-board (@1972) articles of incorporation and put some urls on the image.
Among them, Gail Thain Parker (now “Gail T.P. Wickes” as Harvard BA & PhD but was -briefly – the youngest women college president in the US, and first one of Bennington College, VT, with her (then-husband). It didn’t go well. She was only 29! EDC still lists her, says, on its board since 1973 (before her time at Bennington), and now is a stockbroker].
For example, here’s for year 2010:[June2017 Update note: that link is a generic, not a saved search, and no longer valid. Despite looking again through some of the key personnel (other MA corporations they ran) and earlier (and revealing) EDC returns, I DNR what I was looking at, this time. I did see William DeJong listed as just 1 of 5 contractors (paid bout $59,000) in FY2001 or 2002; I’ve blogged DeJong’s since on FamilyCourtMatters). I would like to know what the reference was, but for now, do not. Tax Years Fiscal Years 2002 + 2001 from 990Finder (FoundationCenter) have financial statements attached; 2001 has a schedule of contracts and pass-through federal agencies. Neither particularly explains what they do on the Form 990 “Program Service Accomplishments” page in those years, and Highest Paid Subcontractors” omit contact addresses, or even state/country info). EDC’s Gov’t grants (see Scheds A) escalated by millions, yearly 1998-2003 at least. I AM ADDING 5 IMAGES from EARLIER EDC IRS RETURNS, 2 show its highest paid contractor, all show avoidance tactics (disrespectful to the public) in filling out Forms 990. The first image is as wide as the post, others are smaller. (But FS were attached, also) //LGH]
#1 of 5 Images, EDC (EIN#042240218) FY2002 Shows ca. ¾ of funding is govt grants)(Image added post-publicatn 6/2017)
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Do You Know Your Social Science PolicySpeak? Can You Name Some University Centers|Key Professionals |BIG Foundation Sponsors|Related Networked Nonprofits| and A Basic Timeline Since at least The Moynihan Report? [First Publ. July 26, 2016,rev.2017 & (minor) 2019. See its tags]
I went looking for prior posts on the university system and found several, including this one a full six years ago!
FYI, in July, 2016, I had no stable lease and had been forced into prolonged hotel-living instead (fiduciary abuse). Since then, I’ve migrated out of state (for related and safety reasons as I enter my senior years) and for both June and July, 2022, I have AGAIN been forced into the hotel/transience situation. Any blogging I get done during this period is “pro bono,” and out of conscience only. I’ve been somewhat active on Twitter (less formal, easier to get some messages out) but publishing a series I started in May has been difficult from this condition. //LGH)
Do You Know Your Social Science PolicySpeak? Can You Name Some:
University Centers / Key Professionals / BIG Foundation Sponsors / Related Networked Nonprofits
and a Basic Timeline Since at least The Moynihan Report (1965).
If you don’t, this post shows several of the terms, the centers and associated professionals, the foundations (coordinating with each other), at least a few of the associated nonprofits, and where HHS funding fits in.
This 11,700 word post is well worth reading. If you disagree on my connections between the various organizations and personnel, at least become aware of them — they are still influential today, as are the programs they’ve initiated and/or administered. Call it the “Dewey Decimal System” (at least a labeling system by time, and some of the lingo) for Federal Family Design, the public/private-funded way. Call it what you like — it’s a good start at a historical roadmap.
[Other than adding this post title & link, a habit I adopted later, and this paragraph, I haven’t changed the post from its July 26, 2016 details. LGH/June 21, 2017] [**Shortlink ending originally mis-labeled “-42P,” Finally discovering this (3+yrs later, ℅ my Twitter thread referencing it) I corrected it to “-42K“.//LGH, Oct. 8, 2019 ]
It’s Show-and-Tell time, we’ll start with the “Ford Foundation’s influence in sponsoring the Strengthening Fragile Families Initiative“
THIS POST came from the middle of the following sequence. It is a large section extracted from “Re-Organizing The World through International Institutes….” after publication. In case you haven’t noticed, that’s how I work — I write, I post, I review, I continuing considering and writing on the subject matters, which results in posts extracted from the middle.
The fabled “some day” maybe I’ll get a blog laid out differently so will not need to rely on the “One Main Page, Linear / Serial Installment” features of a blog. And/or, get this into proper book format, maybe online, and hit the road with it (?? Maybe I’ll even catch up or run across some of the personnel I’ve been blogging who do this for a living — only on the public dole with private supplementation….).
Related posts:
JUST PUBLISHED 7/23/2016:
‘“Re-Organizing” The World through International Institutes, Strategies, Dialogues, Peacemaking and Programs Targeting Fragile Families, Communities — and Countries... (short-link ends “-41x:) and, Part 2 of it, UNESCO’s IIP Rutgers|”Partners” + ISD and the Strong Cities Network (Reorganizing the World through International Strategic Institutes, cont’d.) (short-link ends “-41S”
Extracted from the middle of THIS post: SFFI – CFFPP – JustGive, Inc. – IronPlanet, Inc. – ZOPB – Texas DOTs $1B GrandParkway Project – US Gov’ts Big Banks Bailout|SunTrust (while Fixing Fragile Families?) and to be published simultaneous on 7/26/2016. The starting point for this one was JustGive.org as a CFFP funder (one of many).
UPCOMING: “Munich,” and the Strong Cities Network [ISIL/ISIS aren’t the only ones who want to control the World] upcoming) (short-link ends “-42b”)
Also, a shortlink (if you copy the url) to THIS one, Do You Know Your Social Science PolicySpeak? Can You Name Some University Centers|Key Professionals |BIG Foundation Sponsors|Related Networked Nonprofits| and A Basic Timeline Since at least The Moynihan Report? (short-link ends “-42K”)…If there’s any mixup on the shortlinks, go to main blog, Sidebar “Most Recent Posts” or simply to Archives by date.
As this post is basically almost complete, I’m putting it before publication of the third post in the other sequence, “Munich,” and the Strong Cities Network although that one’s just about ready to go as well.
Since “FRAGILE FAMILIES” is such a key phrase and policy, let along strengthening them (“Strengthening Fragile Families Initiative”) I start there, for the most part. …. which pretty much brings up the Ford Foundation. But, it’s hardly operating solo in the overall cause — this is a COORDINATED Public/Private effort, with the end-game completely outsourced and privatized government, and what’s left looking like a legal system, pretty much in name only.
While that’s kind of obvious (if one pays some sustained attention to various centers, or nonprofits), a simple and interesting example below in the funders of a 1995 nonprofit that calls itself “the policymaking arm of the Strengthening Families Initiative“** does tend to crystallize the “many coordinated into one purpose” funding that larger philanthropies do. They pick causes, and then target midsized (including community) funding by cause, and get public funds involved too.
Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History 