Newsroom and Stories
Letter from the Hardest Day of Chefs Cycle
After the second day of Chefs Cycle we stayed at a Days Inn near the water in Morro Bay. The...
Special Culinary Opportunity for Donors to My Chefs Cycle Ride
In addition to the improbable spectacle of me cycling 300 miles for our No Kid Hungry campaign at the end...
Orlando and the Imperative of Rededicating Ourselves to Mission and Humanity
The events in Orlando are almost impossible to process. If you are like me you search without knowing precisely...
Top 10 things I don’t keep count of when on my bike
Training for a 300 mile bike ride means keeping count of many things such as days left until the ride...
Graduation Speech at U of Pennsylvania May 15, 2016
Thank you Dean Fluharty, and thank all of you for this opportunity to return to the place that for...
California Here We Come
I’m just back from California where Jeff Bridges and I met with Governor Jerry Brown and Diana Dooley, Secretary of...
Lesson from Chefs Cycle: Capable of More than We Think We Are
One of the most important things I’ve learned over 30 years at Share Our Strength came during last year’s 3...
“No Great Cause is Ever Lost or Ever Won. The Battle Must Be Renewed and The Creed Restated” 28 Years of Taste of the Nation
Last night was Share Our Strength’s annual Taste of the Nation event at the National Building Museum. It was the...
Intersection of Poverty and Place Matters, and Creates New Challenges
A new report from the Brookings Institution gives policy makers and nonprofit leaders working for social change reason to rethink...