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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...
Chef Mario Batali’s recipe for good management
We’re more accustomed to seeing chef Mario Batali interviewed in the pages of food magazines than in Harvard Business Review...
Gary Hart and the power of ideas
I wanted to share the piece published yesterday by Jim Fallows, who for 25 years has been a national corresponde...
Would It Spoil Some Vast Eternal Plan?
Here’s an excerpt from the piece I wtote today for Huffington Post about rising above politics to end childhood hunger...
Jim and Karen Ansara: Not giving up on Haiti
We had dinner over the weekend with Jim and Karen Ansara, and the talk turned to Haiti, to which he...
Behind Share Our Strength’s growth: talent, imagination, stubbornness
Thanks to Paul Shoemaker, the visionary founder and leader of Social Venture Partners whom I greatly admire, for an e-mail...
“Battles big enough to matter, small enough to win” – hunger and malaria in Maryland and Moheli
Moheli is a small east African island thousands of miles from Maryland and as different as can be politically, economically...
Another Major Milestone Toward Ending Childhood Hunger
Yesterday the House Education and Labor Committee approved the Child Nutrition Reauthorization and sent it to the full House where...