In researching the Social Citizens paper, I was struck by a potential problem in public life. We have been witness to an explosion in interest in volunteerism and nonprofit careers, while interest in government careers has waned. Elected officials and other community leaders regularly laud the importance of the nonprofit sector … but is it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service?
The Privatization of Public Service
27 June 2008
tags: government, public policy, volunteer service
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A Digital New Deal?
14 May 2008
There is a terrific post up on Afro-Netizen by guest blogger Helen De Michiel, the national co-director of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, based in San Francisco.
Helen calls for a digital-era Works Progress Administration (the old WPA from the New Deal started in the 1930s) so that, as she puts it, “Our next president can help reconstruct America’s fragmented and relatively weak public communications infrastructure by using the most effective tool our youth wield — the power and depth of their digital fluency.”
tags: government, millennials, wpa