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Alice Waters on the Power of Real Food
In this very special episode, we re-visit our conversation with award-winning Chez Panisse chef and cookbook author Alice Waters who...
Share Our Strength Alumni on Leadership, Lessons Learned and Their Roles as CEOs
ASPCA’s Matt Bershadker and VOW for Girls’ Clay Dunn made an impact at Share Our Strength, and now they are...
Advocating for Social Justice for Native Americans
Originally recorded in December 2020, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health Co-Director Allison Barlow...
How Poverty Has Disappeared from the National Dialogue
Last week, prior to the State of the Union, I wrote about my fear that President Obama would feel politically...
“A powerful imagination generates the event”
Over the weekend I picked up one of the slim “Great Ideas” volumes published by Penguin Books. It was a...
Hoping for some FDR in Obama State of the Union
The State of the Union speech tomorrow will be scrutinized and analyzed based on the President’s every word. But I...
An economic and political climate that calls out for creating community wealth
A recent Chronicle of Philanthropy article (http://philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofits-Seek-Ways-to-Cope/125838/?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en) about the economic peril facing most nonprofits begins as below and essentially makes...
Keynoting The Haiti Fund lunch
I had the great honor on Friday of keynoting a lunch at the Parker House Hotel in Boston to commemorate...
“Deep Poverty” is deeper than we thought
After writing the previous post about the failure of our political leaders to address poverty, I asked our friend and colleague Stacy Dea...
More Poverty, Less Concern
Bob Herbert’s column in Saturday’s NY Times about the increase in poverty America but the decrease in concern about i...
When Non-Profits Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Today’s New York Times has a prominent article in the business section (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/business/06charity.html?_r=1&ref=business) featuring nonprofit complaints that the Pepsi Refresh...
A New Year Marked by Boldness and Accountability
We spent the last days of 2010 at Goose Rocks Beach in Maine where we aspired to be as lazy...
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