Newsroom and Stories
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...
Partners in Health provides transparency and health care
One of Share Our Strength’s major grant recipients since the earthquake in Haiti has been Partners In Health. Yesterday, on the 6...
Gates Foundation IOWH Grant
Last week the Gates Foundation announced a $10 million grant to the Institute for One World Health (IOWH) to increase...
THE FEVER, a courageous book bears witness to the drama of man’s struggle to end malaria
Yesterday the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/07/07/in_fever_examining_malarias_ruthless_history/) reviewed a new book called The Fever, by Sonia Shaw, about the impact malaria has...