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17 October 2015
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L.A. Success Story

             Share Our Strength’s no Kid Hungry dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles on Wednesday night was...

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12 October 2015
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Tuesday’s Democratic Presidential Debate – what they candidates say and don’t say.

Because I was once deeply engaged in presidential politics – before there was a Trump Tower let alone a Trump...

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11 October 2015
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Keynote at Texas Hunger Initiative Summit: Together at The Table, Baylor University

For those who kindly asked, some excerpts of my comments at the Texas Hunger Initiative Summit: Together at The Table...

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04 October 2015
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Louisianans Have Long Memories

            Louisianans have long memories.             Last week the Share Our Strength board met in New Orleans and participated i...

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14 September 2015
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New public suppport for not only feeding kids, but preventing hunger

  I wish I had a dollar for every time a well-meaning friend or supporter has said “No one could...

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24 August 2015
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Public-Private Partnerships at the Heart of Our Success with No Kid Hungry Campaign

     This weekend the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported on how a small grant from Share Our Strength will have a big...

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20 August 2015
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Bearing witness in Appalachia to mothers and babies

In response to my post below about poverty and brain development, my colleague Jen Keleba wrote the following which I found much more...

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19 August 2015
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letter from the hippocampus

            Like a SWAT team tracking escaped convicts, scientists investigating the damage that poverty inflicts on children are utilizing forensics...

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06 July 2015
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lessons from our border for The National Commission on Hunger

A national commission’s report to Congress can seem like an academic exercise at times, but there was nothing academic abou...