Prometheus 6

This has something of an "I told you so" flavor. 

NAACP Will Cut Staffing, Close Offices
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 8, 2007; A09

In an attempt to overcome years of budget shortfalls, the NAACP announced that it will temporarily close its regional offices and cut its national staff by 40 percent.

Dennis C. Hayes, the interim president and chief executive, said the organization will use layoffs and attrition to reduce its staff to 70 from the current 119. The seven regional offices will be cut. On its Web site, the group lists offices in Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York, among others.

The announcement came weeks after the organization revealed that it has delayed plans to move its headquarters from Baltimore to Washington, and three months after the organization's president, Bruce S. Gordon, abruptly resigned over sharp conflicts with the executive board and Chairman Julian Bond.

"It's tragic," Gordon said of the staff reduction in a telephone interview yesterday. Many members of the group's public policy team, which monitors civil rights issues, will be cut. "They are the talent. They are all leaving," he said.