Will More of Corporate America Follow Walmart's Bold Lead?
May 12, 2010: Today, Walmart designated Share Our Strength as a partner to end childhood hunger in America, part of a $2 billion commitment over five years to fight hunger in America by funding the nation’s leading anti-hunger organizations. This is a...

Everyone is responsible for ending child hunger
Jun 24, 2009: The Summer Food Program is a vital resource. However, after the summer food program has served its last meal, children will again be going to bed hungry if we don’t act. The Commission on Children and Families is committed to...

Letter on lessons learned at a bedside in Wilmington
Mar 12, 2009: Business as usual is not an option in these tough times. We need to do more.

Letter re: the Failure of Imagination in Bill Gates' "Creative Capitalism"
Aug 18, 2008: As expansive and imaginative a thinker as he is, Bill Gates articulated a surprisingly narrow vision of what creative capitalism means in a five page essay in Time Magazine last week. Along with his 2007 commencement address at Harvard and...

David Beckmann at Rome High-Level Conference on World Food Security
Jun 27, 2008: David Beckmann is president of Bread for the World, an organization whose anti-hunger efforts Share Our Strength has had the privilege to support for many years now. We also have the privilege of benefitting from his thinking on matters that...

Christian Science Monitor Op-Ed: The Hunger In Our Midst
Jun 1, 2004: National Hunger Awareness Day, being observed Thursday by a coalition of anti-hunger organizations, raises the issue of why more Americans are not aware that hunger is a serious problem facing children and families across the United States....

Letter Regarding Norwegian Poets and Insecticide Treated Nets
Apr 10, 2004: "Noble is man. Rich is the earth. Where there is hunger or need, there is betrayal." So said Nordahl Grieg, one of Norway's most prominent poets and dramatists who was born in 1902 and died in 1943 when his plane...

Letter From a Community Wealth Collaborative
Oct 1, 2003: If we are to become as good as we need to be to succeed in bringing community wealth to scale, we'll always be learning as much from our client engagements as our clients do. The second session of the Massachusetts...

Letter From the Border
Jun 3, 2002: Bumper stickers usually make you smile. Some can make you cry. That's what I discovered after driving hundreds of miles last week through the poorest parts of the Mississippi Delta and the Rio Grande Valley....

Nothing Is Small: Share Our Strength’s Strategy for Investment in Ethiopia
Jun 15, 2001: "Have you showered yet?" were Zach's first words when I raced into the Bob Evans restaurant where his hockey team was eating breakfast. I'd traveled 28 hours from Mekele in northern Ethiopia to watch him play in a tournament outside...

Letter From 16th Street
Jan 7, 2001: 16th Street begins at the White House and ends near my house in Silver Spring, Maryland. I drive the length of it twice each day, to and from Share Our Strength. It runs straight as an arrow for five miles...

Letter From a Cab Ride in Denver
May 15, 2000: Last Monday I flew to Colorado to keynote the annual dinner of The Investment Fund For Foundations (TIFF). It was an opportunity to learn from two accomplished men, Michael Porter from Harvard and Ed Jackson from Denver....

Letter From a Passover Sedar
Apr 24, 2000: I can't imagine that many Passover sedars start with the reading of an e-mail, but ours did last Wednesday evening....