For years, he headed the development committee of the Endowment Fund at the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, and he played a role in countless other community efforts.
But what these "experts" failed to take into account was the same thing that has led to the downfall of countless other groups' efforts to create sustainable change: They ignored the contributions of the people within the system.
Lucas and Gena Rowlands were among those presenting Jolie the humanitarian award for the work she has done during more than 40 field missions with the United Nations Refugee Agency, as well as her efforts in countless other social justice efforts.
But countless other, increasingly sophisticated efforts were underway to dissolve that social strength, and just when declining remuneration and protection of work were also dissolving it in favor of lotteries and vapid escapes.
As in both of those races — and countless others — the effort to recall Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, is being treated as a kind of early warning system for the presidential campaign this November.
To some, the contract undermines the efforts of countless other players who never even get one plate appearance.
No group can co-opt the legacies of Ella Baker, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, Jack O'Dell, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, the Greensboro Four, and countless others whose valiant efforts are known only to antiquity, who put their lives on the line for freedom's cause.
He most certainly did not speak for me, or for countless other Americans who appreciate the indispensable efforts of the United Nations to foster -- yes, imperfectly -- social progress, human rights, peace and security within and between countries.
Apart from the loss of Franklin's expedition, the hunt to find a passage through Canadian waters to the Pacific claimed countless other lives and defied the best efforts of 19th-century explorers.
