A few years back I found myself sitting next to a fellow University employee on an airplane bound for some cold Mid-western city.
“So what do you do for the University?” I asked.
“I’m in development.” said …

Thanksgiving weekend’s New York Times article on food stamp enrollment is a timely one. According to the article, the program is now helping to feed 1 in 8 Americans, 1 in 4 children.
Over 36 million people …

It is going to be a rough season for many families. Food, clothing, and toys are the usual items requested to help make this time of year a little less stressful.
This holiday season we’d like …

On a sunny day in May, I chatted with Katie Couric and 25 members of the Silicon Valley Moms Group on a conference call.  The conversation turned heavy and deep, because we were talking about …

Yesterday the U.S. Census Bureau released their 2008 poverty estimates. Their report estimates 1.7 million children living in poverty, or 18.5% of all CA residents 18 years or younger.
The report also estimates there are 534,254 children …

A couple of recent studies about hunger in America have put hunger issues in the spotlight.  One study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows that nearly half of all U.S. children, and …