With the terrible budget shortfall at the state level, we can look forward to tragic cuts to education, the full range of social services and public safety, none of which can afford to be cut.

Our higher education system is mediocre and struggling for funding. The Oregon Health Plan, Disability Services, and a wide variety of critical services effecting infants and youth are going to be hacked up by the legislature, because there is no money. That means cuts to disability services, WIC, juvenile services, mental health, the state police, DHS -- and the list goes on. We're all going to suffer, but the ones who will undoubtedly suffer most, and most unfairly, are the very young and very old, the two groups who can't possible take care of themselves and for whom we have an absolute responsibility.

In the coming months and years even more burden will be shouldered by the food banks, homeless shelters, missions, and other non-profits who help do what used to be done by churches and governments (federal, state and local).

This is not the time to indulge silly fantasies designed to discredit the non-profits that take care of needy children and adults. (Birth to three, Lookingglass, Relief Nursery, KidsFirst, Committed Partners for Youth, CASA, Food for Lane County, Pearl Buck, etc, et) These programs have become a critical part of our community safety net for developmentally delayed, drugged, abused, abandoned, starving, homeless kids and their parents.

There is one individual who ranted under the screen name of "Foundation Trilogy" for years. Like the mentally ill woman who has nothing nice to say about anybody, Mr. "Trilogy" has nothing nice to say about county commissioners, non-profits, city council members, law enforcement agents or other government employees. Taken together his prose says two things: "The government is out to get me, and the government is corrupt is its support of non-profits". This nonsense was taken to federal court and, as many members here predicted, it was promptly thrown out as frivolous. Now we're hearing the same nonsense under a different screen name or two. Apparently, he's got access to more than one computer. Please do not keep bouncing the nonsense to the surface by responding to it. He will eventually get tired of responding to himself. He did last time.

We all know how awful it is to kick a person when he's down. Now imagine what kind of person makes up lies about conspiracies in non-profits to kill their funding just when people need their help most. It's despicable. Please, give it a rest. Try helping people for a switch. It will melt your heart.

There are many good “not for profits” just as there are many good banks.  The point is that we need to get rid of the rotten core.  The job that “not for profits” needs to be done, but it doesn’t need to be done by certain folks.  Just as the government has put some banks into receivership, they now can put large “Community Foundations” into receivership.  When the “Community Foundations” were started they had to donate 5% to charities, now they do not have to do that.  Take for example the Oregon community foundation, it “holds” various money designated for scholarships.  Small groups of 5 to 10 decide who gets a scholarship, one has former Lane County employee Nancy Wagonner.  A theater group has a “marketing” person funded by OCF, Nancy Glines.  They seem to protect their own. Our state deserves to have the funds that were put into the “Community Foundation” system dispersed in an open and transparent manner.  Our scholarship funds need to be invested wisely, not in “pooled investment” funds that are tied to backroom loans and self-serving granting committees.  When we have elected officials like Faye Stewart granting Lane County funds to a “not for Profit”, Community Sharing, that he sits on their board, that needs to be stopped.

“This nonsense was taken to federal court and, as many members here predicted, it was promptly thrown out as frivolous.”  This statement is false and deliberately misleading; a reasonable person might ask why you did that.  First point is that Oregon has virtually stopped the “court appointment of attorneys”, that practice has been ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in another case.  The “Foundation” Case was withdrawn by the Plaintiff, not “promptly thrown out as frivolous” as falsely portrayed by you.     
So I will take it that you have taken up my challenge to defend and speak for the “Oregon Community Foundation” in this forum.  Time for openness and transparency.
First Question: How much did the OCF lose in 2008?

How does federal money get into a “community Foundation”?  When a “not for Profit” gets Federal money “granted” to them and they deposit it into their Community Foundation account.  Federal scholarship funds get put into the Community Foundation scholarship accounts.  County Commissioners divert federal funds into entities that set up funds under a Community Foundation.  The Community Foundation then “pools” the funds with other funds and invests in a system where all share in the loss of invested programs.  Who is overseeing that the “losses” are real?  Is it sane to believe that they are just honest bankers that wouldn’t take advantage of a billion dollar investment pooled fund with no one watching?
Reminds me of the time I gave a horse betting friend $5 to bet for me, He came back with $100, He told me the horse he bet on with his $5 won but the horse he bet my $5 lost.   
The fact that you don’t realize that this has been happening should make you worry.
When you read that a “class action settlement” has been reached and millions of dollars are involved do you realize that much of that money goes into a “Community Foundation” to be used by a “not for profit”?

So "Foundation Trilogy" = "MagicBus" = "Theeyelady" = Mr. Bussey?

One person can have three screen names here? How does that work? Mr. Bussey, you've beat this dead horse, well, to death, about five times over.

You're obviously wrong about the impropriety of the funding practices you describe, as they are done everywhere in systems that are continuously audited by federal and private accounting firms. You've been whining about this for several years, at least. If there was any substance to your claims somebody would have made hay with them. The practices you're confusing are obviously perfectly legal. In fact they are the norm for funding non-profit organizations which then deliver mandated services at lower cost to taxpayers.

You've had all explained to you by the attorney general, FBI, district attorney, local police agencies, department of justice staff and a federal court, but you keep coming back to beat on the dead issue. If anybody else cared about your views on this they've long since grown weary of them. Please give it a rest.

I know you consider this repetitive chant a matter of exercising your freedom of speech, but you're impairing the rights of others by hijacking other threads to retread your distortions. You only write about two subjects, your alleged victimization, which has been thoroughly and permanently debunked by all the authorities, and your unorthodox views on accounting, which have been rejected by all the people who know the law, including accountants, lawyers and judges. It's not productive to keep asserting a rejected theory of the law. At some point you have to live with the fact that you don't get it. Maybe you could channel your frustration into a law degree and take your own cases?

You were more polite for a while, but now you're back to trying to force-feed everybody your material by making every thread your soap-box.

Why not go back to your former practice of starting a thread and then being the only one to post to it? That way you get to express yourself, but you don't bother the rest of the readers here who have grown tired of your rejected theories? It would be an act of kindness to those who have refrained from personal attacks or other unpleasantness.

Hope posted on 04-01-2009, 9:11 AM
 “You're obviously wrong about the impropriety of the funding practices you describe, as they are done everywhere in systems that are continuously audited by federal and private accounting firms. You've been whining about this for several years, at least. If there was any substance to your claims somebody would have made hay with them. The practices you're confusing are obviously perfectly legal. In fact they are the norm for funding non-profit organizations which then deliver mandated services at lower cost to taxpayers”

The days of blindly accepting the concept that if an entity is “audited”, it is not breaking the law are over. Currently the US taxpayers are shelling out TRILLIONS of dollars to cover companies that were “audited” by private and Federal accounting firms. Not for profit “audits” do not cover an in-depth look at their finances; it looks at if they have in place certain accounting “practices” and trivial things as “by laws”.
For example if a not for profit was “granted” $500 from a “Community Foundation” for a fence, an audit would not find that the fence had to be bought from a relative of the person who made the “grant” or if it was actually  $500 worth of fence. Cohort deals where funds are required to be spent with “friends and relatives” of the “granting” “Foundation” are very close to money laundering. When a not for profit gets funds from a “Foundation” and then provides “volunteers” for political activities it appears legal on the “audit”. These two examples would not show up in an “audit”. Go to www.guidestar.com, register for free, and then look at some of Oregon’s foundation and not for profit “form 909” that they are required to file with the IRS.
Ask yourself this simple question, why does a “not for profit” ask for money for one purpose and then re-grant the money to a totally different purpose?

Hope posted on 04-01-2009, 9:11 AM
 “In fact they are the norm for funding non-profit organizations which then deliver mandated services at lower cost to taxpayers”

The audits you put so much faith in do not look into whether the funds are being spent wisely. It does not show if the “non-profit organizations” are providing “mandated services at lower cost to taxpayers”, in fact, the point of my situation is that a “not for profit” was not providing mandated services and Faye Stewart, who sat on the board of Lane County Commissioners, the board of the “not for profit”, and had ties to the “community foundation” that also provided funds, did not correct the problem but rather he did all he could to cover up the situation. As a Lane County Commissioner he accepted known false documents in an official hearing to up hold an illegal removal of a disabled person from a federally funded housing program. Now if you think that Faye has nothing to hide, get him to defend his actions here.

Hope posted on 04-01-2009, 9:11 AM
 “You've had all explained to you by the attorney general, FBI, district attorney, local police agencies, department of justice staff and a federal court, but you keep coming back to beat on the dead issue. If anybody else cared about your views on this they've long since grown weary of them. Please give it a rest.”

Attorney General does not disclose on going investigations,
FBI is still looking into this.
DOJ staff has not commented.
Federal Court, the magistrate judge, not a real Federal Judge, refused to appoint an attorney as provided for by Federal law, so I withdrew the case from the local Eugene court which had a judge that was picked by 5 people and not a elected by the voters or appointed by the President of the United States of America. Local magistrate judges who are appointed this way are very sensitive to local political pressure.
33,806     4,738      views,       number opposed Hope, Halo , do the math.

Hope posted on 04-01-2009, 9:11 AM
 “I know you consider this repetitive chant a matter of exercising your freedom of speech, but you're impairing the rights of others by hijacking other threads to retread your distortions. You only write about two subjects, your alleged victimization, which has been thoroughly and permanently debunked by all the authorities, and your unorthodox views on accounting, which have been rejected by all the people who know the law, including accountants, lawyers and judges. It's not productive to keep asserting a rejected theory of the law. At some point you have to live with the fact that you don't get it. Maybe you could channel your frustration into a law degree and take your own cases?”

“"Foundation Imagination" and funding       
by Hope”
From the title of your thread and your attack on me, in all my many sobriquets, it appears that you invited me to post my views on your analysis of my situation.

Thank you for that sage advice, under the federal “whistle blower” law I am able to bring this to federal court on behalf of the US Government. Because “local” agencies have not done so does not mean that the claim is baseless it just means that in Lane County Oregon they are more concerned with ducks being shot at by OU students in Alton Baker Park in Eugene Oregon March 31, than landlords shooting at tenants.