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...move from working somewhere near the Hill to working in an agency and then to a nonprofit, but you need...
Benvenutti, who worked in Washington last summer for Common Cause, a nonprofit citizen's lobbying organization, raised a skeptical eyebrow at the suggestion that one goes into business to learn about politics, or into the private sector to learn about the public...
...reinvented the rules of Democratic fund raising, that achievement has also brought scandal to the presidency and left McAuliffe with hefty legal bills. "When it comes to political money, this is a period when Rome is burning and McAuliffe is the fiddler," says Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21, a nonprofit group dedicated to tracking the influence of money on politics. Wertheimer is especially critical of McAuliffe for "connecting six-figure donors with elected officials in a position to do favors for them." But McAuliffe argues that what he does is simply grease the great wheels of democracy. "You need money...
Although unintentionally so, these are farewell letters to the loved ones who received them, proud but painful reminders of lost youth and patriotic sacrifice. Selected from more than 50,000 wartime letters collected by Andrew Carroll's Legacy Project, a nonprofit initiative that seeks out historically significant wartime letters written by Americans from all walks of life (a larger selection edited by Carroll will be published as a book next May by Scribner's), the correspondence included here suggests a larger historical pattern: soldiers enlisted in the two World Wars are generally upbeat and optimistic, brimming with good-natured confidence...
...memorials have changed from generals on horseback to public places designed to affect feeling," says Rosenblatt. Carroll provides us with the final letters written by American soldiers who were later killed in combat. He began collecting such memorabilia after his parents' Washington home burned down, and now heads the nonprofit all-volunteer Legacy Project, which collects and preserves war letters. "These were ordinary people," he says, "in the front row of history...