Newsroom and Stories
Inexcusable Cruelty
The two stories below speak of inexcusable cruelty in the way our nation’s immigration and deportation policies are now being...
Young and younger, special needs and our special focus
Last Friday Rosemary, Debbie and I visited the Y2Y Shelter at Harvard Square – the only student run shelter i...
433,000 More Kids Getting Off to a Better Start Each Day
“More low-income children than ever started their school day with a healthy breakfast in the 2015-16 school year” With this...
The Challenge of Prioritizing The Most Vulnerable Children of All
Every year the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University publishes basic facts about low income children i...
An MLK Day Story About Those Who Serve
We spent Saturday morning at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall where our friend Carolyn Casey kicks off a service project there...
The Cabinet Job Interview We’re Still Waiting To See
Shortly after Tom Vilsack became President Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, he told a small group of us about his job...
Confronting Bigotry With Values: Our New Moral Imperative
The following excerpt was the last of 5 points made this morning at our Summer Meals Summit, about how Share Our Strength...
Remarks at our Summer Meals Summit on December 5
Thank you all for being here and special thanks to the team at Share Our Strength – Derrick, Stephanie, Duke...
Mark Shriver, Pope Francis, The Year of Mercy, Sharing Strength
My friend Mark Shriver, an ally of ours who runs Save The Children Action Network, has a book being...