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Kathryn Edin on the Injustice of Place
Poverty researcher Kathryn Edin talks about the insights from her new Book, The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of...
Alice Waters on the Power of Real Food
In this very special episode, we re-visit our conversation with award-winning Chez Panisse chef and cookbook author Alice Waters who...
Share Our Strength Alumni on Leadership, Lessons Learned and Their Roles as CEOs
ASPCA’s Matt Bershadker and VOW for Girls’ Clay Dunn made an impact at Share Our Strength, and now they are...
Shaming Our Nation into Caring About Hunger
Last night NBC Nightly News used a newly released Feeding America report on hunger in America in 2014 as a...
On the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s “war on poverty” bill
This week makes the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the legislation that enacted his “war on poverty” into...
From last night’s wreath laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on 70th anniversary of D-Day
Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, one of those rare world-changing events that actually live up to such...
A Pulitzer Prize for Giving Voice to the Voiceless
I sent a note of congratulations last week to Eli Saslow of the Washington Post after he won a Pulitzer...
“The key to the future is finding the positive stories and getting people to tell them to each other.”
Last week I was in New York to speak at a social entrepreneurship forum that took its name, Go Big...
Goose Rocks Beach at First Light on New Year’s Day
There’s nothing like watching dawn break over Goose Rocks Beach in Maine. The first sign of light on the horizo...
A New Year ritual of renewal
It is the season of both ritual and renewal. While our family is not especially observant when it comes to...
Letter From Zavala County
Greetings from Zavala County in southwest Texas, “the spinach capital of the world”, replete with an annual spinach festival...
A 50th Anniversary, Both Public and Private, of MLK I Have A Dream Speech
Wednesday is the much anticipated 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, and for me...
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