In addition to furthering the efforts of a worthy cause, the donation earns Pate the right to have Washington Life magazine cover the event of his choice. (We hear the room erupted into laughter when notoriously pub-shy billionaire Steve Case cracked, “I’d pay for them not to write about me!”) So, when you open up a future issue of Washington Life and see an offbeat spread of 600 people cleaning up Anacostia, don’t say you weren’t prepared.
