There are lots of ways to give and things to do for others. It is harder - and a classic problem for non-profit institutions - to change things at the structural level, and to institutionalize the process of change.
This year was a milestone for me in how much effort I gave to organizing around electoral politics. One of my current projects is to turn that work into a self-sustaining, professionalized organization that has ongoing impact. MoveOn and Howard Dean showed us it can be done: the internet DID change politics.
