Newsroom and Stories
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...
Labor Day comments on link between jobs and hunger
On Wednesday of this week the USDA releases its latest food insecurity numbers, and on Thursday, President Obama addresses a...
Top 6 Reasons Why No Kid Hungry Campaign is Needed and Destined to Succeed
I’ve been struck by the importance of relentlessly reinforcing the key messages of No Kid Hungry and what makes i...
The Unique Role of Public Affairs in Giving Voice to the Voiceless
This weekend I read a brand new book called Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a...
Sara Brenner’s 8 common elements of successful social transformation initiatives
My colleague Sara Brenner, who is one of the leaders of Community Wealth Ventures, recently gacve a keynote speech a...
Sounds of silence greet new report showing jump in child poverty
The annual Kids Count report just released by the Annie E Casey Foundation shows that the child poverty rate i...
Washington is not just out of money, it is out of big and bold ideas
The stock market continues to plummet. Unemployment is stubbornly stuck above 9 per cent. A record 45 million Americans are...
In Reducing the Federal Budget we have Reduced the National Imagination
There is a shockingly large inverse correlation between the number of pundits and politicians now saying that Obama should focus...