Robin Hood Funds ACORN
October 16th, 2008 by Matthew VadumNow this is funny.
A major donor to the far-left group ACORN and its affiliates is…(drumroll)…the Robin Hood Foundation.
Bada bing!
The foundation has given ACORN $821,000 consisting of a $456,000 grant in 2003 and a $365,000 grant in 2004.
POST SCRIPT a few minutes later:
Fun facts: The Soros Fund Charitable Foundation gave the Robin Hood Foundation a $9,859,453 community development grant in 2000. The Robin Hood board includes Tom Brokaw of NBC News, Marian Wright Edelman (president, Children’s Defense Fund), Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, and actress Gwyneth Paltrow.
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October 17th, 2008 at 1:00 am
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October 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Robin Hood Funds ACORN…
A major donor to the far-left group ACORN and its affiliates is…(drumroll)…the Robin Hood Foundation.
The foundation has given ACORN $821,000 consisting of a $456,000 grant in 2003 and a $365,000 grant in 2004. Fun facts: The Soros Fund Charitable Foun…
October 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
[...] post is based on a Capital Research Center blog [...]
October 21st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
[...] The current CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, sits on the board of directors of the Robin Hood Foundation. As we reported, that foundation is funded by George Soros’s Soros Fund Charitable Foundation and has given money to ACORN. [...]