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How the Madoff Mess Hits Women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

How the Madoff mess hits women With two progressive organizations forced to shutter, it isn't just wealthy individuals being affected by the investment scandal. Salon.com Nancy Goldstein Jan. 07, 2009 | For all the ink that's been spilled on the Madoff investment scandal, I've read nothing about its impact on funding for progressive women's causes -- which is considerable. Simply put, only a small pool of foundations are funding litigation and advocacy work related to criminal justice or constitutional rights; the pool that supports related programs targeted to women is smaller still. With the recent shuttering of two of Madoff's clients, the Picower Foundation and the JEHT Foundation, that pool has shrunk to a puddle. Picower was one of a handful of foundations willing to stick their necks out and significantly fund the three organizations that handle virtually all major reproductive rights-related litigation and legal advocacy in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).