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Mike started his career as a Project Coordinator with @TidesCommunity, two years later he moved to Austin Texas & started working for "Greenlights for Nonprofits Success" now known as @Mission_Capital where @KirkPWatson sat on the board between 2003-2004.
Today Mike is the CEO of Austin Community Foundation (@atxcommunityfdn) and has been serving as CEO since 2014
The first CEO of Greenlights (Mission Capital) was @matthewkouri between 2007 - 2017
Prior to that he worked as a senior manager for @Deloitte
#Deloitte is partnered with the @wef to push ESG in order to drive "behavioral change"
ESG is a program being pushed by @WEF, an organization that seeks to create one world government which is led by #KlausSchwab. #WEF became more recognizable after their ad campaign in 2020, "You'll own nothing and be happy" by 2030
In Series #1 we covered @PeopleFund & Margo Weisz, but what we didn't cover was that she started her career out as a German Marshall Fellow an organization sponsored by @georgesoros@OpenSociety.
Previous president of @gmfus was @KDonfried who is now Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under @JoeBiden
The new President Heather Conley (@HConleyGMF) worked at the Center for strategic and international studies (@CSIS)
@CSIS is a think tank focusing on issues concerning international relations, but from their twitter feed seems more like an outlet to push propaganda in support of Ukraine and @wef@Davos
Now we can continue going down the rabbit hole, but lets bring it back to #Austin
@Mission_Capital has received $40k in consulting fees from the @austintexasgov and $38k in Covid-19 relief money for "Education & Training Consulting"
This city of Austin has also give Measure Austin $134k
Measure Austin founded in 2015 to challenge @Austin_Police to "show me the numbers". After receiving nearly $300k in funding from the city of Austin, Impact Austin Foundation & Mission Capital they've vanished.
@chrisharris101 & Kathy Mitchell both worked at Measure Austin.
Chris also worked at @TexasAppleseed before jumping ship to be Director of police at Austin Justice Coalition (@ATXJustice)
Chris Harris also worked for "Grassroots Leadership" (@Grassroots_News) a police abolitionist group focused on defunding #APD, shutting down detention centers and removing ICE from #ATX
@TFN is ran by @BenavidezVal who spearheaded Texas Rising a project of #TFN to recruit young progressive college students currently on 20 campus in Texas & as received $760k in funding from @TidesCommunity
@MOVE_texas is a progressive organization also focused on recruiting young individuals & is in every major city in Texas.
Claudia Yoli Ferla currently is the Executive Director and previously worked for @DeedsActionFund a similar organization, but focused around young women.
If you've made it this far I thank you for coming along this journey with me.
We are only getting started down the rabbit hole, but as this takes time to research and I receive zero compensation the next release wont be for another 7-14 days.
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The year is 2021, #EquityPAC aka @EquityActionATX launches their first campaign against increasing police staffing which they called "No Way Prop A"
The ballot measure was backed by @georgesoros's and his @OpenSociety Foundation w/ a $500,000 donation and The Fairness Project (@FairnessProject) which I call #TFP moving forward, donated $200,000 as the top 2 donors to #EquityAction
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In 2015 @ATXJustice launched as a grassroots, activist-led organization. On the surface it emulated what every normal citizen could stand behind and support.
They grew little momentum over the years and didn't really become a major player in city politics until 2020 when they teamed up with @GregCasar to push zero racial disparity in traffic stops and use-of-force incidents by Austin police officers. kxan.com/news/local/ausβ¦