In Memory of Rick Cohen of the Nonprofit Quarterly

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
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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.”

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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.

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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
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November 18, 2015 at 3:33 PM, updated November 19, 2015 at 3:31 PM

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/05/18668388.php

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