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In Memory of Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly
Rick Cohen, who passionately and honestly critiqued the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors with pointed journalism and research, has died.
In Memory of Rick Cohen
Rick Cohen: 1951 - 2105
Rick Cohen died recently on November 17, 2015, in his Virginia home.
I will miss Rick Cohen and the wonderful activities he has been involved in through the years to make it a better world.
Sincerely,
Lynda Carson
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NPQ and Rick and the Future
By Ruth McCambridge and Joel Toner | November 25, 2015
You may have noticed that NPQ has not, until now, addressed our readers directly about the death of Rick Cohen. On a personal level, we still cannot yet do it. It would be impossible for us to fully express our sense of loss. He was an integral part of what NPQ is, bringing with him the highest journalistic standards. In a sector where many believe you must go along to get along, he saw—and we see—that kind of silence as holding back the advancement of social justice and equity and interfering with healthy democracy. Rick was a reporter in the tradition of I.F. Stone: not letting personal relationships or risk stand in the way of seeking out the truth, never falling for an unexplored assumption, always looking for the context that created the reality. He was unstinting as a researcher and an inconceivably fast and thorough writer, but he also showed incredible patience in letting a story unfold while never losing grasp of it.
And then he was gone in an instant.
Click below for more…
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/11/25/npq-and-rick-and-the-future/
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Rick Cohen, Rural Philanthropy Advocate and Journalist, Dies
By Tim Marema
November 17, 2015
Print article
Rick Cohen, who passionately and honestly critiqued the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors with pointed journalism and research, has died.
The announcement came midday on Tuesday from Nonprofit Quarterly, the publication for which Cohen wrote for the past nine years. The announcement did not include a cause of death.
Cohen called out the nation’s largest foundations for what he said was their failure to invest equitably in rural community development. Simultaneously, he challenged the nation’s nonprofits – both rural and urban – to do better in their efforts to serve marginalized and underrepresented populations.
“I know that if he saw me fall short, he would write about it,” said Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies and publisher of the Daily Yonder. “He never took a cheap shot. But he asked hard questions and could penetrate glossy answers.”
Click below for full story…
http://www.dailyyonder.com/rick-cohen-philanthropy-journalist-dies/2015/11/17/9807/
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Sector Crusader Rick Cohen Dies Suddenly
By Mark Hrywna - November 18, 2015
Rick Cohen was at times the conscience of the nonprofit sector, one of its most honest skeptics and yet always a champion for the underdog. Cohen, editor of The Cohen Report, national correspondent for Nonprofit Quarterly and former executive director of the National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) , died Nov. 17 at age 64 in his Virginia home. The cause of death is pending.
Click below…
http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/sector-crusader-rick-cohen-dies-suddenly/
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Former Jersey City official Cohen dies; credited with waterfront boom
By Ron Zeitlinger | The Jersey Journal
Follow on Twitter
November 18, 2015 at 3:33 PM, updated November 19, 2015 at 3:31 PM
Click below…
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/11/former_jersey_city_official_cohen_dies_credited_wi.html
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(Lynda Carson inspired Rick Cohen and Spencer Wells of Nonprofit Quarterly at times)
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: A Partnership between Apartment Owners and the United Way in California
By Rick Cohen | September 18, 2015 (Note: Lynda Carson inspired Spencer Wells & Rick Cohen )
See Lynda Carson article… https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/16/18777713.php
As NPQ Newswire contributor Spencer Wells noted earlier this week, the California Apartment Association has been actively opposing renter protection proposals in the city of Richmond, California, population 107,000, located just north of Berkeley and Oakland in Contra Costa County. Wells described the CAA’s petition drive to halt the municipality’s tenant protection legislation as a new, somewhat grassroots tactic for a business group that typically exerts its influence through campaign contributions to local and state government candidates.
Describing it as a “bizarre perverse twist of fate,” Lynda Carson, an IndyBay Newswire contributor and a longtime tenant activist herself, discloses that the CAA is now partnering with the United Way to help the homeless. The partnership between the California Apartment Association – Greater Inland Empire and the Inland Empire United Way will “build on efforts to expand emergency shelter and quality of life improvements for the region’s residents,” according to an article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
Click below for full story…
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/09/18/not-so-strange-bedfellows-a-partnership-between-apartment-owners-and-the-united-way-in-california/
Click below for Spencer Wells article that was inspired by Lynda Carson, that Rick Cohen mentioned:
http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/09/14/landlords-organize-petition-campaign-against-rent-control/
Click below for article by Lynda Carson that inspired Spencer Wells of Nonprofit Quarterly: Articles were also published on Indy Bay News Wire:
http://sfbayview.com/2015/09/how-big-money-stole-richmonds-renters-protections-in-less-than-a-month/
(This article below inspired Rick Cohen to write article about Not So Strange Bedfellows)
In a bizarre perverse twist of fate, anti-tenant group CAA partners with United Way
By Lynda Carson - September 16, 2015
Richmond - As the City Council of Richmond and the renters who recently had their renter protections hijacked from them by a petition of the California Apartment Association (CAA), that many were lied to and tricked into signing by devious signature gatherers according to reports, the citizens of Richmond are patiently awaiting to hear if there were enough legal signatures to repeal renter protections, including rent control and just cause eviction protections in Richmond.
Click below for more…
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/16/18777713.php
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(Rick Cohen was inspired by Lynda Carson to write this article)
Private Investment in Public Housing – Berkeley Residents Cry Foul
By Rick Cohen | January 12, 2011
Click below for full story…
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2011/01/12/private-investment-in-public-housing-berkeley-residents-cry-foul/
HUD approves Berkeley's public housing disposition scheme
by Lynda Carson ( tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com )
Wednesday Jan 5th, 2011 8:28 PM
Click below for full story…
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/05/18668388.php
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Rick Cohen: 1951 - 2105
Rick Cohen died recently on November 17, 2015, in his Virginia home.
I will miss Rick Cohen and the wonderful activities he has been involved in through the years to make it a better world.
Sincerely,
Lynda Carson
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
NPQ and Rick and the Future
By Ruth McCambridge and Joel Toner | November 25, 2015
You may have noticed that NPQ has not, until now, addressed our readers directly about the death of Rick Cohen. On a personal level, we still cannot yet do it. It would be impossible for us to fully express our sense of loss. He was an integral part of what NPQ is, bringing with him the highest journalistic standards. In a sector where many believe you must go along to get along, he saw—and we see—that kind of silence as holding back the advancement of social justice and equity and interfering with healthy democracy. Rick was a reporter in the tradition of I.F. Stone: not letting personal relationships or risk stand in the way of seeking out the truth, never falling for an unexplored assumption, always looking for the context that created the reality. He was unstinting as a researcher and an inconceivably fast and thorough writer, but he also showed incredible patience in letting a story unfold while never losing grasp of it.
And then he was gone in an instant.
Click below for more…
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/11/25/npq-and-rick-and-the-future/
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Rick Cohen, Rural Philanthropy Advocate and Journalist, Dies
By Tim Marema
November 17, 2015
Print article
Rick Cohen, who passionately and honestly critiqued the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors with pointed journalism and research, has died.
The announcement came midday on Tuesday from Nonprofit Quarterly, the publication for which Cohen wrote for the past nine years. The announcement did not include a cause of death.
Cohen called out the nation’s largest foundations for what he said was their failure to invest equitably in rural community development. Simultaneously, he challenged the nation’s nonprofits – both rural and urban – to do better in their efforts to serve marginalized and underrepresented populations.
“I know that if he saw me fall short, he would write about it,” said Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies and publisher of the Daily Yonder. “He never took a cheap shot. But he asked hard questions and could penetrate glossy answers.”
Click below for full story…
http://www.dailyyonder.com/rick-cohen-philanthropy-journalist-dies/2015/11/17/9807/
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Sector Crusader Rick Cohen Dies Suddenly
By Mark Hrywna - November 18, 2015
Rick Cohen was at times the conscience of the nonprofit sector, one of its most honest skeptics and yet always a champion for the underdog. Cohen, editor of The Cohen Report, national correspondent for Nonprofit Quarterly and former executive director of the National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) , died Nov. 17 at age 64 in his Virginia home. The cause of death is pending.
Click below…
http://www.thenonprofittimes.com/news-articles/sector-crusader-rick-cohen-dies-suddenly/
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Former Jersey City official Cohen dies; credited with waterfront boom
By Ron Zeitlinger | The Jersey Journal
Follow on Twitter
November 18, 2015 at 3:33 PM, updated November 19, 2015 at 3:31 PM
Click below…
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2015/11/former_jersey_city_official_cohen_dies_credited_wi.html
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(Lynda Carson inspired Rick Cohen and Spencer Wells of Nonprofit Quarterly at times)
Not-So-Strange Bedfellows: A Partnership between Apartment Owners and the United Way in California
By Rick Cohen | September 18, 2015 (Note: Lynda Carson inspired Spencer Wells & Rick Cohen )
See Lynda Carson article… https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/16/18777713.php
As NPQ Newswire contributor Spencer Wells noted earlier this week, the California Apartment Association has been actively opposing renter protection proposals in the city of Richmond, California, population 107,000, located just north of Berkeley and Oakland in Contra Costa County. Wells described the CAA’s petition drive to halt the municipality’s tenant protection legislation as a new, somewhat grassroots tactic for a business group that typically exerts its influence through campaign contributions to local and state government candidates.
Describing it as a “bizarre perverse twist of fate,” Lynda Carson, an IndyBay Newswire contributor and a longtime tenant activist herself, discloses that the CAA is now partnering with the United Way to help the homeless. The partnership between the California Apartment Association – Greater Inland Empire and the Inland Empire United Way will “build on efforts to expand emergency shelter and quality of life improvements for the region’s residents,” according to an article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
Click below for full story…
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/09/18/not-so-strange-bedfellows-a-partnership-between-apartment-owners-and-the-united-way-in-california/
Click below for Spencer Wells article that was inspired by Lynda Carson, that Rick Cohen mentioned:
http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2015/09/14/landlords-organize-petition-campaign-against-rent-control/
Click below for article by Lynda Carson that inspired Spencer Wells of Nonprofit Quarterly: Articles were also published on Indy Bay News Wire:
http://sfbayview.com/2015/09/how-big-money-stole-richmonds-renters-protections-in-less-than-a-month/
(This article below inspired Rick Cohen to write article about Not So Strange Bedfellows)
In a bizarre perverse twist of fate, anti-tenant group CAA partners with United Way
By Lynda Carson - September 16, 2015
Richmond - As the City Council of Richmond and the renters who recently had their renter protections hijacked from them by a petition of the California Apartment Association (CAA), that many were lied to and tricked into signing by devious signature gatherers according to reports, the citizens of Richmond are patiently awaiting to hear if there were enough legal signatures to repeal renter protections, including rent control and just cause eviction protections in Richmond.
Click below for more…
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/16/18777713.php
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(Rick Cohen was inspired by Lynda Carson to write this article)
Private Investment in Public Housing – Berkeley Residents Cry Foul
By Rick Cohen | January 12, 2011
Click below for full story…
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2011/01/12/private-investment-in-public-housing-berkeley-residents-cry-foul/
HUD approves Berkeley's public housing disposition scheme
by Lynda Carson ( tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com )
Wednesday Jan 5th, 2011 8:28 PM
Click below for full story…
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/05/18668388.php
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Legacy - Rick Cohen
COHEN RICK COHEN (Age 64) Prominent community activist and nonprofit journalist, died suddenly at his Virginia home on November 16, 2015, from a pulmonary embolism.
A son of the housing projects of East Boston, Rick earned activist credentials early on by penning a critique of the Vietnam War for his high school newspaper, leading to expulsion and subsequent efforts to blackball him from the area's universities. He nonetheless graduated Boston University in 1972, paying his way through by driving a taxi and sorting mail at night.
He went on to earn a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. For the next 25 years, he rose rapidly through the ranks of urban government and nonprofits, serving as a planner for Action for Boston Community Development; director of the Jersey City Department of Housing and Economic Development; vice president of James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation of Columbia, Maryland; and vice president for planning and operations at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's largest nonprofit community development intermediary.
In these posts, Rick became known for his unswerving and incorruptible devotion to the interests of the poor and marginalized, and his determination to resist blandishments and threats from the powerful seeking to divert public resources to their own benefit. Rick's reputation for courage and devotion to social justice only increased when he became executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy in 1999.
NCRP serves as the nation's major philanthropic watchdog, caught in the unenviable position of seeking funding from, while simultaneously critiquing the performance of, the nation's foundations. Under his leadership, NCRP resolutely maintained that foundations too often failed to provide adequate, timely, flexible, or reliable resources for indigenous social justice groups, preferring instead to hoard resources for institutional self-aggrandizement or direct them to safe and compliant mainstream nonprofits.
During his tenure at NCRP, he was named five times to the NonProfit Times' annual Power and Influence Top 50. Rick turned his experience into a steady stream of articles and op-eds for mainstream publications like the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as nonprofit outlets like Nonprofit Quarterly, Blue Avocado, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. This prepared him for what many regard as the most productive and influential period of his career, his service as national correspondent for the Nonprofit Quarterly, beginning in 2006.
There, he produced an astonishingly prolific flow of lengthy investigative stories and shorter articles, bringing his deep-seated compassion and hard-earned wisdom to bear on a broad range of interests: the decline of housing and community groups, the corrupt self-dealing of some leading charities, the plight of the rural as well as urban poor, the neglect of veterans, the struggle against racism, and the fate of Detroit.
He never wavered from his lifework's consistent theme that the nation's leading public and private anti-poverty groups all too often failed to honor their professed commitment to the interests of the marginalized, a case illustrated in lavish detail drawing from his rich and varied career. He was typically feared and avoided by the powerful and comfortable, but remained a quiet hero to the community activists who were always uppermost in his mind. As one observer noted, he was something of a "Columbo" of the nonprofit world, charming, self-deprecating and unerring in his investigatory instincts.
As the flood of comments on NPQ's website following his death made clear, Rick's daily journalistic output was eagerly anticipated by the widest range of readers, from foundation presidents - who had to respect his devotion to hard evidence even while subjected to his criticism - to grassroots nonprofit leaders, who heard their own hopes and aspirations echoed in Rick's words. Rick is survived by his daughter Eleanor, his fiancée Ellen Giordano, her daughter Eve and his beloved dog Murphy.
A public service celebrating Rick's life will be held in January, 2016.Rick is survived by his daughter Eleanor, his fiancée Ellen Giordano, her daughter Eve and his beloved dog Murphy. A public service celebrating Rick's life will be held in January, 2016.
Published in The Washington Post on Nov. 29, 2015
- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=176689230#sthash.863HDghP.dpuf
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COHEN RICK COHEN (Age 64) Prominent community activist and nonprofit journalist, died suddenly at his Virginia home on November 16, 2015, from a pulmonary embolism.
A son of the housing projects of East Boston, Rick earned activist credentials early on by penning a critique of the Vietnam War for his high school newspaper, leading to expulsion and subsequent efforts to blackball him from the area's universities. He nonetheless graduated Boston University in 1972, paying his way through by driving a taxi and sorting mail at night.
He went on to earn a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. For the next 25 years, he rose rapidly through the ranks of urban government and nonprofits, serving as a planner for Action for Boston Community Development; director of the Jersey City Department of Housing and Economic Development; vice president of James Rouse's Enterprise Foundation of Columbia, Maryland; and vice president for planning and operations at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's largest nonprofit community development intermediary.
In these posts, Rick became known for his unswerving and incorruptible devotion to the interests of the poor and marginalized, and his determination to resist blandishments and threats from the powerful seeking to divert public resources to their own benefit. Rick's reputation for courage and devotion to social justice only increased when he became executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy in 1999.
NCRP serves as the nation's major philanthropic watchdog, caught in the unenviable position of seeking funding from, while simultaneously critiquing the performance of, the nation's foundations. Under his leadership, NCRP resolutely maintained that foundations too often failed to provide adequate, timely, flexible, or reliable resources for indigenous social justice groups, preferring instead to hoard resources for institutional self-aggrandizement or direct them to safe and compliant mainstream nonprofits.
During his tenure at NCRP, he was named five times to the NonProfit Times' annual Power and Influence Top 50. Rick turned his experience into a steady stream of articles and op-eds for mainstream publications like the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as nonprofit outlets like Nonprofit Quarterly, Blue Avocado, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. This prepared him for what many regard as the most productive and influential period of his career, his service as national correspondent for the Nonprofit Quarterly, beginning in 2006.
There, he produced an astonishingly prolific flow of lengthy investigative stories and shorter articles, bringing his deep-seated compassion and hard-earned wisdom to bear on a broad range of interests: the decline of housing and community groups, the corrupt self-dealing of some leading charities, the plight of the rural as well as urban poor, the neglect of veterans, the struggle against racism, and the fate of Detroit.
He never wavered from his lifework's consistent theme that the nation's leading public and private anti-poverty groups all too often failed to honor their professed commitment to the interests of the marginalized, a case illustrated in lavish detail drawing from his rich and varied career. He was typically feared and avoided by the powerful and comfortable, but remained a quiet hero to the community activists who were always uppermost in his mind. As one observer noted, he was something of a "Columbo" of the nonprofit world, charming, self-deprecating and unerring in his investigatory instincts.
As the flood of comments on NPQ's website following his death made clear, Rick's daily journalistic output was eagerly anticipated by the widest range of readers, from foundation presidents - who had to respect his devotion to hard evidence even while subjected to his criticism - to grassroots nonprofit leaders, who heard their own hopes and aspirations echoed in Rick's words. Rick is survived by his daughter Eleanor, his fiancée Ellen Giordano, her daughter Eve and his beloved dog Murphy.
A public service celebrating Rick's life will be held in January, 2016.Rick is survived by his daughter Eleanor, his fiancée Ellen Giordano, her daughter Eve and his beloved dog Murphy. A public service celebrating Rick's life will be held in January, 2016.
Published in The Washington Post on Nov. 29, 2015
- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?pid=176689230#sthash.863HDghP.dpuf
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