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'''ACORN''', the '''Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now''', is the largest community organization of low and moderate-income families in the [[United States]]. ACORN has an active membership of over 160,000 families, organized into more than 750 neighborhood chapters in more than 60 cities across the country. As a community group, ACORN is [[non-profit]], [[Nonviolence|non-violent]], and nominally non-partisan. The organization was born out of the [[civil rights movement]]. ACORN was founded by [[Wade Rathke]], a community and [[Labor union|labor]] organizer, in [[1970]]. The current national president of ACORN is Maude Hurd.