May 7, 2009
Being the Change
Veteran leader and advocate of national service is poised to fight a new battle: reducing poverty in America
When President Obama signed into law a sweeping national-service bill last month, few savored it more than Alan Khazei.
As head of a nonprofit group he founded in 2007, Be the Change, Mr. Khazei had worked relentlessly for more than a year to help put together a broad coalition to press for the law.
"He's a human hurricane," says John Gomperts, president of Civic Ventures, a group that promotes public-service and nonprofit jobs for older people. "Nothing is impossible to
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