April 15, 2007 - April 21, 2007

"This disaster stuff is happening to you, too..."

By Bill Shore  Share Our Strength  | April 16, 2007

On Friday Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu gave a keynote speech at NYU's annual conference on social entrepreneurship. Speaking easily and without notes, lacing his comments with self-deprecating jokes, he was powerfully eloquent on the issues of race and poverty...  >> Read more

April 16, 2007 | 0 comment(s)

A New Beginning for a New Orleans Landmark

By Ashley Graham  Share Our Strength  | April 17, 2007

Thursday, April 5th was a happy day in New Orleans. Church calendars indicated that it was Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday which commemorates the Last Supper. But the smiling people lined up at the corner of Orleans Ave and Miro...  >> Read more

April 17, 2007 | 0 comment(s)

Oversimplification in the Global Poverty Debate

By Bill Shore  Share Our Strength  | April 19, 2007

Every year since 1948, BBC has organized a series of lectures in which a leading public figure addresses a worldwide radio audience about important contemporary issues. This year the Reith lectures, named in honor of the BBC's first director general...  >> Read more

April 19, 2007 | 0 comment(s)

First Impressions from a New Volunteer Corp

By Christine Carroll  CulinaryCorps  | April 20, 2007

March 23, 2007 -- It had been less than five months since I first visited New Orleans as a Share Our Strength-Henckels Cutting Edge Student....  >> Read more

April 20, 2007 | 1 comment(s)