Commentary - America's Future

By Roger Custer • Dec 02,2014

Make #GivingTuesday Into #GivingRegularly

Today is #GivingTuesday and you’ve probably already received emails, texts, and tweets from your favorite organization asking for a gift. You can give to AF here. In 2013, giving was...

By Liz Thatcher • Nov 25,2014

Is this Job Transition for You?

Even if you are comfortable at your current job, there may be opportunities out there that are worth pursuing. Perhaps a new position could be more rewarding personally, professionally, and/or...

By Patricia Simpson Rausch • Nov 24,2014 Professional Development

Making Part Time Jobs Work for You

If you’re like me, you have what my father jokingly refers to as, “champagne taste on a beer budget.” When I got to DC, my paltry entry-level staffer salary was...

By Claire Kittle Dixon • Nov 21,2014 Career Advice, Professional Development

The Magic Formula Revealed: Determining the “Right Salary” for a Job Application

If there’s one topic everybody wants to know more about, it’s salary. (Well, that and where socks go when the dryer eats them.) My friend Alex in Kentucky requested that...

By Matt Mitchell • Nov 20,2014

Why Writing Well Is Key

Everyone writes. Most of us do it poorly. Lamentable though it may be, the fact is, writing is not just for the blogger, the op-ed author, and the novelist. It...

By Jordan Silverman • Nov 19,2014

How to Turn an Internship into a Full-Time Position

During my final semester at the University of Maryland, I was lucky enough to get an internship at a nonprofit, Americans Standing for the Simplification of the Estate Tax (ASSET),...