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10 December 2011
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Noel Cunningham’s funeral: extraordinary tribute to private citizen with public following

 Noel Cunningham’s funeral was yesterday. It was an extraordinary tribute to a private citizen who had developed such a devoted public...

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02 December 2011
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remembering Noel Cunningham: “a virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones”

In the earliest days of Share Our Strength, one of the great forces in our growth, perhaps the greatest, was...

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30 November 2011
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Crossing the threshold to historic levels of childhood hunger

For the first time in our nation’s history a majority of fourth graders in the U.S. are enrolled in the...

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24 November 2011
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A Thanksgiving Blessing

      At our Thanksgiving dinner, we will repeat the short blessing we’ve been saying every night at dinner since Nate...

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21 November 2011
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Jeff Bridges Day Off : All About Serving Others, Making Connections

Jeff Bridges, the national spokesperson for Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign was in the middle of a four...

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14 November 2011
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NKH Campaign, “What’s” Been Achieved, and “So What?”

It’s been about a year since we publicly launched our No Kid Hungry campaign with Jeff Bridges and we will...

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31 October 2011
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Three Governors whose leadership makes a difference

In the last two weeks I’ve been able to spend time with three of the Governors whose states have made...

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30 October 2011
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Health conditions that emerge through poverty and cause it

Peter Hotez, whose bold vision led to the first National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University is someone I...

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30 October 2011
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When social change begins with changing the conversation

I had lunch recently with my friend Jim Down, a wonderful strategic thinker who led Mercer Management Consulting until retiring...