Newsroom and Stories
What we owe our partners and other stakeholders
I’m writing from my home away from home – National Airport – where I’m waiting out a 90 minute delay...
When poltical calculation becomes politcal callousness
I’m en route from Boston to Anchorage, Alaska. During the course of ten hours in the air it’s hard to...
Why We Can Succeed in Ending Childhood Hunger (Remarks at Autumn Harvest Dinner)
Thank you so much for being with us for such a special evening. I’ve had the privilege of speaking to...
SNAP (food stamps) one of our most effective childhood hunger programs
Earlier this week we met with Bob Greenstein from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He is also a...
Four questions nonprofits must ask in light of dramatic rise in poverty
Last week the Census Bureau released a new survey showing a record 46 million Americans living in poverty below the...
Increase in Poverty Not Surprising, But Lack of Bold Response Is
The government’s newly released statistics showing a record 46 million Americans living in poverty were shocking but not surprising. The...
bearing witness to famine in Horn of Africa
Yesterday’s New York Times published a rare first person account of what it feels like to be hungry in the...
Another chapter in The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men
I get the question all of the time. “How does the story end?” After reading through 300 pages of my...
Two Books Give Voice to the Voiceless Suffering from Malaria
Is the global campaign against malaria reinventing international aid? That’s the thesis of an important new book, Lifeblood, by Time’s...