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"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of the world is not 'to have and to hold' but 'to give and to serve.'"

- Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

- Survey: Young CPAs Say Firms Fail to Deliver on Key Attributes, SmartPros
- One in 10 Employers Will Use Social Networking Sites to Review Job Candidate Information, Naceweb

- Homework Authority

- Accounting Education Scholarships

- Objective: Replace Retirees, The Washington Post

- 48 Years After Kennedy's Call, Website Introduces a New Generation to Government Careers, The Washington Post

Links from the Partnership for Public Service –

• Ten Reasons to Consider A Federal Career

• Resources to help you understand, find and apply for federal jobs

• Best Places to Work in the Federal Government 2005

• Profiles in Public Service —Read about government employees who have made a difference: a crusader who helped save 2,000 acres of tropical habitat and created the first “shade” coffee habitat in the U.S.; a State Department leader who organized 15 local elections in southern Iraq; a woman who fought for women’s rights on Wall Street and secured a massive settlement against Morgan Stanley.

From Governing magazine:

• The Government Performance Project 2005: Grading the States, a report card on management

• The latest news affecting state governments

• The American Society for Public Administration

• The Government Innovators Network, developed at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, contains a variety of content on government innovations for policy makers and practitioners. 

• The Council for Excellence in Government

• What is America Thinking About Government?

• The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation

• The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government conducts research on state and local government issues.