What foundations do, writes Larry Ferlazzo, is not paternalism, but worse, neocolonialism. "Community groups, desperate for funding, would then often tailor their priorities around the funders' agenda and the funders would become the groups de facto constituency. The groups' genuine constituency - low and moderate income residents - would then be "brought along"….sometimes, and often for the short-term."
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