Kennedy’s Contributions Cited by Nonprofit Experts
By STACY PALMER
Contributor
August 26, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
People throughout the nonprofit world are paying tribute to Sen. Edward Kennedy, who died Wednesday. Among them:
- Steven Waldman, editor of the religious Web site Beliefnet, highlights Senator Kennedy’s role in getting a bill passed to create AmeriCorps in 1993. Mr. Waldman wrote a book about that fight, The Bill. “I got to watch up close Kennedy’s extraordinary skill as a legislator,” he writes on The Huffington Post. “Far from being an ideologue, Kennedy was invariably the guy going for the deal.”
- Michael Brown, chief executive of City Year, an AmeriCorps program in Boston, recalls Senator Kennedy’s support for City Year and national service.
- ServiceNation, a coalition that promotes national service and volunteerism, pays tribute to Senator Kennedy on its blog. The senator was a key mover behind a bill that became law last spring to expand the country’s national-service programs — the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.
- Robert Lynch, president of Americans for the Arts, writes about Senator Kennedy’s impact on the arts, noting he co-founded the Senate Arts Caucus.
- Larry James, president of Central Dallas Ministries, praises Senator Kennedy’s work for civil rights, gender equality, and health-care benefits.
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