Newsroom and Stories
Creating Community Wealth – The Next Generation
Yesterday I spent an hour via video conference with 25 students from the Honors College at the University of Alabama...
The politics of helping hungry kids
You’ve probably noticed that the media these past few days has been reinforcing the conventional wisdom with new polls and...
Child Nutrition Reauthorization: The Perfect and the Good
This morning I re-read the last chapter of Jonathan Alter’s book The Promise, about Obama’s first year in office. I...
Sounds of Silence Greet Shocking New Poverty Statistics
Here’s a philosophical variation of the “if a tree falls in a forest” question for you: if 44 million Americans...
A Layer of Vulnerability That is Almost Irrevocable
I had coffee yesterday with George Jones, the executive director of Bread For the City (to which Share Our Strength last year made...
Our fragile and interdependent political ecosystem
One advantage of spending part of the summer in Maine is that you not only learn but actually live the...
“It is the Giant Hour”
“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us...
A Time of Growth for Community Wealth Ventures
Community Wealth Ventures, a subsidiary of Share Our Strength, devoted to helping nonprofits and businesses create community wealth, is poised...
Bearing witness to children living with an unemployed parent
The National Center for Children in Poverty is a think tank at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia...