Acorn and the media The Stump - - OregonLive.com:
"What's been obscured amid all the polemics, or the polemics passing as news reports, is what Acorn is and does. Founded in Little Rock, Ark., in 1970 as an organization agitating for free school lunches, Vietnam veterans' rights and more hospital emergency rooms, Acorn has grown in the past four decades into the nation's largest community-organizing group. Based in low-income neighborhoods, it has nearly 500,000 dues-paying members, recruited by door-to-door canvassers, with chapters in 110 cities in 40 states. Nationwide, it has more than 1,000 staffers."
"What's been obscured amid all the polemics, or the polemics passing as news reports, is what Acorn is and does. Founded in Little Rock, Ark., in 1970 as an organization agitating for free school lunches, Vietnam veterans' rights and more hospital emergency rooms, Acorn has grown in the past four decades into the nation's largest community-organizing group. Based in low-income neighborhoods, it has nearly 500,000 dues-paying members, recruited by door-to-door canvassers, with chapters in 110 cities in 40 states. Nationwide, it has more than 1,000 staffers."