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08 May 2011
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Serendipity or the power of bearing witness?

On Friday I had the privilege of keynoting the 13th Alexandria Business and Philanthropy Summit It’s a community with impressive...

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04 May 2011
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Newly named CBS Evening News Anchor Scott Pelley, Bearing Witness with Share Our Strength

In New York on Monday night at a Share Our Strength dinner at the Four Seasons Restaurant, and on the...

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28 April 2011
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Dan Pallotta’s inspiring vision of nonprofits achieving Apollo-like aspirations

At Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership my guest presenter on Wednesday was Dan Pallotta, author of UNCHARITABLE and founder of...

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25 April 2011
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On World Malaria Day: A Fatal Case of Political Laryngitis

In the run-up to the fourth annual World Malaria Day there are have been a flurry of new reports documenting...

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22 April 2011
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Five pieces worth reading before World Malaria Day on Monday

Top five pieces to read this World Malaria Day Ray Chambers and Dr. Tachi Yamada have an column in the...

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22 April 2011
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What Americans may be telling us about our values

In today’s NY Times two journalists implicitly poses a question on the front page and another, on the op-ed page...

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20 April 2011
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“We Know the Solutions, But How Do We Deliver Them”

I came across this TED Talk via a Gates Foundation tweet that read: “Saving newborn lives in India: We know...

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18 April 2011
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When “everything is on the table” in budget battles, does that include the truth? Or our principles?

Massachusetts has long had a reputation for being one of the most liberal states in the nation. So over the...

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12 April 2011
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Countdown to World Malaria Day, April 25: failure to imagine or failure to care?

One of the insights at Share Our Strength that has fueled our growth is that most failures are failures of...