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	The Heinz Awards
		Cortés exemplifies the importance of individuals who speak sensibly about issues, work publicly for their goals, debate subjects on their merits, and give voice to others who lack ready access to power.
		Ernesto Cortés left post-graduate work in economics at the University of Texas at Austin at the same time he recognized the power of community organizing in improving the lives of others.
		Ernesto Cortés has successfully translated his passion for justice into helping the politically disenfranchised of all races and faiths discover their political strength.
	www.heinzawards.net /recipients.asp?action=detail&recipientID=37 (543 words)

	Ernesto Cortes Named SMU Honorary Degree Recipient
		DALLAS (SMU) — Civic activist Ernesto Cortés Jr.
		Cortés has dedicated his life to public service and the common good by working to make government more responsive to the poor and politically disenfranchised.
		Cortés has received numerous awards for his work, including several fellowships in recognition of his accomplishments in the field of community organizing.
	www.smu.edu /newsinfo/releases/99339a.html (486 words)

	Ford Foundation Report
		Cortés is also a doer, a scrappy activist who draws shrimp fishermen as well as suburbanites into the political processes that shape their lives.
		Cortés says his grief -- his anger, in the Nordic sense -- stems from America's failure to fulfill the promise of democracy, the promise that all citizens can play a meaningful role in their own governance.
		Ernesto Cortés, Jr., was born 53 years ago in San Antonio, where his grandfathers (one a policeman, another a popular band leader) settled after the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
	www.fordfound.org /publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=59 (2101 words)

	Cortes Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cortés exemplifies the importance to political democracy of individuals who speak sensibly about issues, work publicly for their goals, debate subjects on their merits and give voice to others who lack ready access to power.
		Ernesto Cortés left post-graduate work in economics at the University of Texas at Austin at the same time that he recognized the power of community organizing to improve the lives of others.
		Cortés founded the first IAF affiliate there, Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS), in his hometown of San Antonio.
	www.tresser.com /cortes.htm (554 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PERSPECTIVES . Seeking the Welfare of the City . March 2, 2001 \| PBS
		Ernesto Cortes, the Southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), is widely regarded as the most effective grassroots organizer in the nation.
		ERNESTO CORTES: The way I would put it is that IAF does institutionally based organizing, not community organizing.
		CORTES: A recognition that faith-based institutions ought to be about revitalizing and connecting and enabling us to live out the values of our traditions in the public square, not just about "providing services" competently and effectively.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week427/perspectives.html (1826 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the process, Cortes and the IAF came to base their organizing work almost exclusively in religious congregations and to reach deeply into religious networks to build organizations that would last, and that could expand their political capacity over time.
		Cortes hoped these training sessions would help participants mesh their personal commitment to the well-being of family and friends with a deeper commitment to acting for the welfare of the whole community.
		Cortes responded by arguing for the need for a unifying 'common culture' in America, warning the priest that the network sought to improve public institutions and the public life of the country.
	www.ids.ac.uk /ids/civsoc/final/usa/USA12.doc (10535 words)

	UUA News & Events: General Assembly 2004: 0001 Justice at the Gates of the City
		Cortés, Southwest Director for the IAF, spoke with the ministers about why it is that he dedicates his life to organizing.
		Cortés said that it is an issue, not of family values, but of the value of families.
		Cortés said that this form of organization is the only antidote to the Grand Inquisitor style of unilateral power that rules the world, and it is the embodiment of hope.
	www.uua.org /ga/ga04/0001.html (1772 words)

	Past Issues - January/February 1999
		CORTES: My point is that this is not something that you can, by virtue of will plus information, plus some good practices, develop a program for the nation as a whole.
		CORTES: I always remind people that the great civil rights movement, which started with the Montgomery bus boycott--if we looked at what the Montgomery Improvement Association was asking for, most people could not believe it, because they were not asking for integration.
		Cortes was named a fellow by the MacArthur Foundation, and has completed a fellowship at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
	www.edletter.org /past/issues/1999-jf/forum.shtml (9577 words)

	Social Justice - Ernesto Cortes Jr.
		Cortés has been a successful community organizer longer than the students in the room have been alive.
		The first group that Cortés helped organize, Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS), forced the city to make good on a sewer-and-drainage proposal that it had passed 30 years earlier -- but had never implemented in the poor neighborhoods that the proposal was intended to help.
		Larkin, a second trainer, and Cortés (when he arrives) are there to help the committee figure out how to organize a millennial celebration that will focus on diversity -- an issue that the church is struggling with as its congregations become increasingly Hispanic.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/30/cortes.html (2542 words)

	Ernesto Cortes - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cortes organizes primarily in the San Antonio, Texas area, though other organization in Houston, El Paso, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and New York City had also benefited from his leadership.
		Cortes coordinates regional and national leadership schools that train grassroots leaders on power, relationship building, and social justice.
		He has helped community members win water and sewage facilities where none existed, election campaigns, increased access to affordable housing, and neighborhood infrastructure improvements.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ernesto_Cortes (137 words)

	Social Justice - Ernesto Cortes Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cortes has been a successful community organizer longer than the students in the room have been alive.
		The first group that Cortes helped organize, Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS), forced the city to make good on a sewer-and-drainage proposal that it had passed 30 years earlier -- but had never implemented in the poor neighborhoods that the proposal was intended to help.
		Larkin, a second trainer, and Cortes (when he arrives) are there to help the committee figure out how to organize a millennial celebration that will focus on diversity -- an issue that the church is struggling with as its congregations become increasingly Hispanic.
	sdweiner.home.texas.net /d/archive/race-ethnicity/00_IAF_fights_for_social%20Justice.htm (2521 words)

	Ernesto Cortes Jr. to speak
		Awarded a MacArthur “genius” award for his work, Cortes will be the keynote speaker at the fifth annual UCSC Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community spring lecture on Tuesday, April 13, at 7 p.m.
		Cortes is the southwest regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), a network of community organizations that fights for social justice by waging campaigns for living wages, equitable public investments, effective public school reform, and other causes.
		A native of San Antonio, Texas, Cortes is a graduate of Texas AandM University, where he majored in English and economics and graduated at the age of 19.
	currents.ucsc.edu /03-04/04-05/cortes.html (379 words)

	Reclaiming Our Birthright, by Ernesto Cortes, Jr.
		Using personal examples drawn from their own organizing experiences, Kim Fellner, Ernesto Cortés, Jr.
		Once the fragments of institutions can be woven back together, congregations, unions, civic organizations, and schools can begin to use this network and structure to enable people to negotiate with those who have power, and thereby transform their communities.
		Ernesto Cortés, Jr., is director of the Southwest region of the Industrial Areas Foundation, 1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 120 West, Austin, TX 78723; 512-459-6551.
	www.nhi.org /online/issues/101/cortes.html (2149 words)

	LaMP: Journalism Awards : Award Winning Works
		Cortes went north from Texas AandM to study in the Midwest with the late radical organizer Saul Alinsky and other directors of the Industrial Areas Foundation, a school for professional organizers.
		Cortes has also never sought national recognition, and tries to discourage it because he believes it detracts from his work as a community organizer.
		Cortes said that the IAF organizations are seriously considering the request, and explains this new flexibility toward electoral politics, saying: "We have never foreseen doing what we plan all on our own.
	www-new.latinosandmedia.org /jawards/works/LAT83_001.html (3778 words)

	CPN - About CPN
		Cortes has played a key role over the past twenty years in developing the IAF's successful approach to institution based community organizing.
		A native of San Antonio, Cortes returned to the city in 1974 and established the organization known as COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service), which has become a model for organizing efforts around the country.
		Cortes has received widespread recognition or his many accomplishments, including recognition as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1984.
	www.cpn.org /topics/community/reweaving.html (9149 words)

	cortes - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		ERNESTO CORTES, JR., is Southwest regional director of...
		And it is as horsemen that Cortes and his fellow conquistadors are best...Bernal Diaz del Castillo, the companion of Cortes.
		San Pedro Sula and Puerto Cortes are the principal ports of Honduras and serve the northwestern banana...
	www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=cortes (1571 words)

	Opening Keynote Session Building a Just Society Through Ethical Leadership
		Ernesto Cortes is an old friend, and he's done very well indeed.
		Then and now, Ernesto Cortes was about empowerment, about the process of helping people learn to take control of their lives and of their communities.
		Cortes: I want to thank the Dean for reminding all of you how long ago and far away we both first met.
	www.utexas.edu /lbj/research/leadership/publications/conference1/openingKeynoteSession.html (6131 words)

	Organizing for Power and Money ... [Blurring the Lines between Service and Activism] [Free Republic]
		Ernesto Cortes (chief IAF organizer in Texas) told bishops "Power is the only thing that talks, in the world as it is...
		In 1994, the Campaign for Human Development awarded $80,000 to Ernesto Cortes and the Network of Texas Organizations, which is described as "a federation of the 12 Industrial Areas Foundation community-based organizations in Texas.
		Among those receiving a very sympathetic hearing from the bishops were Ernesto Cortes, state director of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Texas (described by William Greider as a "Mexican- American version of Saul Alinsky"); Andy Sarabia, founder of COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service [courtesy of public funds]); and Fr.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a7cebdc6ffa.htm (3680 words)

	Forum for Corporate Conscience: Speakers and Panelists: Ernesto Cortés, Jr.
		Cortés' attended IAF's leadership training institute in Chicago in 1972, then worked with IAF leaders in Wisconsin and Indiana for a year developing community organizing skills.
		Cortés founded The Metropolitan Organization in Houston in 1978, Valley Interfaith in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas in 1982 and, with COPS in San Antonio, these organizations were the start of today's Southwest IAF Network.
		Cortés has received fellowships and awards recognizing his accomplishments from such prestigious institutions as the Macarthur Foundation, the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
	www.forumforcorporateconscience.com /agenda/cortes.html (456 words)

	Daily Free Press -Online frontpage Wednesday, April 08, 1998
		Ernesto Cortes, another panelist, works with the Industrial Areas Foundation, an Austin, Texas-based organization that goes into Southern schools to help urban educators.
		When Cortes first visited the school, he found students holding signs that read, "We can't study without books." The school was in such disrepair that the girls' bathroom didn't have doors on the stalls, he said.
		While Cortes and Dobbins credit their respective programs with helping schools escape from urban decay, both acknowledge that a sizable struggle lies ahead.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /media/paper87/dfparchive/frontpage/0408984.html (413 words)

	Horizon Information Portal
		A concern for community with Ernie Cortes [videorecording] : parts I and II.
		In part 1, Bill Moyer discusses how Cortes trains grass roots leaders from within communities to participate in politics and to mobilize for themselves, families, and communities.
		Cortes who also trains professional organizers, started Communities Organized for Public Service in San Antonio.
	library.maricopa.edu /ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=emc2&index=BIB&term=177848 (110 words)

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		Cortes stated that to do something about crime and violence, the single most strategic, preventive program is a healthy, viable community.
		Cortes defined politics "in the Aristotelian sense of public debate, in the sense of developing a public discourse, developing a public persona." He argued that a healthy community is one where people can debate, discuss, confront, and compromise about their interests.
		Cortes reminded the audience that "power tends to corrupt; and absolute power corrupts absolutely." He stated that the power that corrupts is inaccessible power--power of the Grand Inquisitor.
	www.ncjrs.org /txtfiles/youthvio.txt (19911 words)

	UUMA CENTER News 2003-4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ernesto Cortés says that "today, we are at risk of abandoning values such as justice and equality and establishing a ‘vending machine society’ in which the tyranny of the market dominates every aspect of our lives." When asked by a questioner to explain how he "motivates" people to support a cause, Cortés responded with skepticism.
		Cortés believes that the challenge of working for the mutual interests of both congregations and communities begins with remembering the ancient tradition of mishpat— or justice at the gates of the city.
		Ernesto Cortés has dedicated his life to public service and the common good by working to make government more responsive to the poor and politically disenfranchised.
	www.uuma.org /center/news/center-news.htm (2230 words)

	ISTA Summer Leadership Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In 1973 Cortes organized the Communities Organized Public Service (COPS), the nationally recognized church-based grassroots organization of San Antonio's west and south side communities.
		Cortes' expertise as IAF organizer and teacher grew as he moved to East Los Angeles where he organized UNO, the United Neighborhoods Organization.
		Cortes is a nationally recognized expert and speaker on a variety of subjects surrounding community development: education reform, economic issues, immigration issues and community organizing.
	mama.indstate.edu /users/swarens/istasl.htm (458 words)

	[No title]
		Cortés is the Southwest Regional Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF).
		A nationally recognized expert and speaker on community organizing, Cortés envisioned and launched an innovative education initiative with goals to identify and train parent and community leaders to change the culture of schools, and to build a broad constituency of support for education reform both locally and statewide.
		He has served on a number of commissions and boards, including the Public Education Network, the Pew Forum for K-12 Education Reform, the Carnegie Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
	www.essentialschools.org /pub/ces_docs/fforum/2002/speakers/speaker_bios.html (950 words)

	Lessons -- Schools Can Use Help Teaching Parents to Get Involved
		In the early 1980's, a new leader, Ernesto Cortes, began to focus on schools here in Texas.
		Cortes saw that it was not enough for teachers to raise their standards for low-income and minority pupils.
		Cortes and his colleagues serves as a reminder that calls for parent involvement mean little if parents lack the skills for effective participation.
	www.epinet.org /printer.cfm?id=1715&content_type=1&nice_name=webfeat_lessons20020807 (803 words)

	FUTURESAVERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ernesto Cortes got a genius grant from the McArthur Foundation in 1984, has received other fellowships and is now the lead organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation.
		They help optimize streets, water, sewage, living wages, public health, economic development, schools, politics, libraries, etc. It is a very effective good-leadership-generating operation because Ernesto Cortes and others lead by example, not by dictation.
		For knowing what real democracy is all about and for helping to create real democracy in the US, Ernesto Cortes has been named Futuresaver of the Week.
	www.cyber-dyne.com /~rsaxton/in.htm (137 words)

	University of the Incarnate Word
		University of the Incarnate Word has invited Cortes to speak to the San Antonio community as part of their Distinguished Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m.
		Cortes is a native of San Antonio and founder of the local church-based grassroots organization called Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS) in 1974.
		Cortes is a graduate of Texas A&M and a recipient of the Heinz Award in Public Policy for his dedication to making government more responsive to increasing citizen participation in the political process at the community level.
	www.uiw.edu /news/newsarchiveF01.html (5285 words)

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