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27 August 2013
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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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09 August 2013
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An Unreasonable Man’s Triumph of Imagination

UPDATE: “Once you have proven the concept, everything else is engineering. The stakes are so high. A baby dies every...

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20 July 2013
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The lasting power of bearing witness

I’m just back from Seattle where I gave the keynote at a Gates Foundation conference cross sector collaboration in education. ...

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08 July 2013
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Increasing Child Poverty and the Political Culture in America Today

            For the past ten years I’ve spent July 4that Goose Rocks Beach in Maine whose population of a few...

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17 June 2013
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Leading health care CEO speaks out on link between hunger and health care

Several months ago Share Our Strength and Deloitte released a report about Deloitte’s extensive research on the connections between hunger...

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28 May 2013
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Marian Wright Edelman’s Commencement Speech at Colorado College

“I love my role model, Sojourner Truth, who was an illiterate but brilliant slave women who could not stand slavery...

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27 May 2013
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New Brookings Study of Suburban “Cul De Sac” Poverty

Just when you think you finally are beginning to understand the issues you’ve worked on for much your career, new...

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26 May 2013
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Community Wealth Partners celebrates the spirit of “Dream Forward”

Last week Community Wealth Partners held a reception to celebrate the launch of its new name (changed from Community Wealth...

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20 May 2013
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What We’re Learning At State Level About How to Get Things Done

           The Boston Globe is publishing a series about Washington called “Broken City: Politics in An Age of Paralysis.” Bu...