The Piedmont Triad Sustainable Communities Planning Project

The Piedmont Triad Sustainable Communities Project is currently a 35 member consortium of North Carolina cities, towns and non profit organizations. They sponsor Piedmont Voice but are not listed with the State of North Carolina. But then they appear to be less than a month old so who knows.

I searched their website and blog back to February 24, 2011 but never found a board of directors. Apparently, Brent McKinney and Mark Kirstner of PART are in charge of the consortium and its a $1.6 Million dollar grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. It will be interesting to see where that money goes.

I wonder if anyone ever thought about starting a non profit to build a non profit wiki on non profits? And how does one go about getting $1.6 Million in Federal Grants before you get listed by the state?

Continue to page 26. Greensboro Youth Council.

Piedmont Triad Partnership In PART

As was pointed out by Sam at Piedmont Publius, an obviously right leaning product of the John Locke Foundation, PART is cutting routes because they lack funding. But then things are tough all over.

As for the Piedmont Triad Partnership, a local non profit with close ties to Mayor Robbie Perkins, Jim Melvin, the Greensboro Partnership and PART, why are they hiring lobbyists who are they lobbying and what are they lobbying for? And what is the involvement of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC?

What is their involvement with Brooks, Pierce et al? And why doesn't the information at the NC Secretary of State website not include the information found on OpenSecrets.org? Perhaps, Justice Frye can tell us.

Perhaps someone on their board will be able to answer my questions?

Continue reading page 24. Young Men's Christian Association of Greensboro.