A further dominating element of House organization is the committee system, under which the membership is divided into specialized groups for purposes such as holding hearings, preparing bills for the consideration of the entire House, and regulating House procedure.
At the same time, the political arms of Congressional Republicans are being outspent — their House organization recently borrowed $8 million — and have fewer targets, with only a handful of Democrats in Florida, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin and in potential trouble.
"The popular term now when people bypass the in-house organization is 'shadow I.T.,' " says Sunny Gupta, chief executive of Apptio, which helps companies calculate their total corporate I.T. spending.
She is the director of a nonprofit housing organization; he works for a financial services company.
Among them will be 75 members of New Jersey Acorn, a nonprofit housing organization that received $7,000.
Even the modest Quakers, with their great commitment to prayer and social justice, need meeting houses, organization and a network.
Mrs. Bartley, 33, is the director of volunteers in Los Angeles for Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit housing organization.
He is now the first vice president of the board of directors for Sheltering the Homeless Is Our Responsibility, a housing organization in White Plains.
Eileen Anderson, a senior vice president of the Community Development Corporation of Long Island, a nonprofit housing organization, says her group counsels struggling borrowers through the foreclosure-avoidance process.
The group has signed a lease with the Preservation of Affordable Housing organization to buy an empty lot on the corner of East 61st Street and South Cottage Grove.
And before its demise, the Open Housing Center received 13 federal grants from 1994 to 2001 totaling $3.6 million, far more than just about any other comparable housing organization.
