The NGO has provided technical support to co-operative managers to allow them to strengthen and develop their business and financial skills.
"He is a very, very sharply honed campaign operative and manager," says Pamela Williams, a journalist and author who covered the 1996 Liberal campaign – Crosby's first at a national level.
In a sign of combat to come, Gleick has taken on a top Democratic operative and crisis manager, Chris Lehane.
"The big rally is not how you do it here," said David Carney, a longtime GOP operative and campaign manager in New Hampshire.
That might be a software engineer, a helpdesk support operative, an accounts manager, a scientific researcher...anyone with in-depth knowledge.
The groom, 39, works in New York as a product manager at Operative Media, a developer of software for the advertising industry.
And so Mrs. Johnson, town clerk since 1991, is surrounded by a staff she hardly knows, with a state party operative as her campaign manager and a Washington consultant, Tony Marsh, as campaign strategist.
But in the days following the election, long-time Republican operative and Whitman campaign manager Ed Rollins did something truly bizarre: he started bragging about his secret weapon, suppressing the (presumably Democratic) vote.
One current representative referred to himself as a kind of risk manager, an operative in a high-level business that sees facts as invaluable — particularly when they're acquired and delivered before the situation is in full view of the public.
To that end, Mr. DiFrancesco is expected to announce this week that he has hired as his campaign manager Charlie Smith, a veteran Republican operative who most recently managed the Senate campaign of Representative Bob Franks.
