Lewis M. Feldstein is the Co-Chair of The Saguaro Seminar along with

Robert D. Putnam Robert David Putnam (born 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Putnam devel ...

and was President of the

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation was established in 1962 as a community foundation and tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. It is one of the United States' largest community foundations and was formed to build social capital by making grants ...

until June 2010. He collaborates with Putnum and many others on publications and projects such as the ''Better Together''Better Together
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community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...

and civic engagement. Feldstein is a graduate of Brown University and holds a master's degree in Law and Diplomacy from

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...

. Besides receiving six honorary doctorates, Feldstein has been a wine steward and personal assistant to John Wayne on his yacht in the Mediterranean, senior staff member for New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay and worked with the

civil rights movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...

in Mississippi.

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BetterTogether.org/authorsNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation
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