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24 August 2010
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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...

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03 August 2010
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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...

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27 July 2010
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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...

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20 July 2010
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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...

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19 July 2010
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“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...

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16 July 2010
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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...

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13 July 2010
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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...

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12 July 2010
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Gates Foundation IOWH Grant

Last week the Gates Foundation announced a $10 million grant to the Institute for One World Health (IOWH) to increase...

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08 July 2010
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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...