This weekend the
Richmond-Times Dispatch reported on how a small grant from Share Our Strength
will have a big impact on First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe’s effort to add 100,000
kids to the school breakfast program in Virginia in the next 2½ years.
It is such a strong representation of
how we forge public-private partnerships that combine state, federal, nonprofit
and business resources to get things done for hungry kids. See @ http://www.richmond.com/article_09c2b0ef-d688-5c3a-ade6-fe39277c5390.html
The amount of this specific grant was small, but it leveraged
hundreds of thousands of additional dollars. And First Lady McAuliffe is
squarely on message about the educational advantages of this type of bipartisan
approach. We are seeing similar results in Nevada, Colorado, Arkansas,
Maryland, California and numerous other states.
We still have a long way
to go to get to done, but this type of public-private collaboration that has
always been Share Our Strength’s signature style will get us there. Along with setting
big goals, holding ourselves accountable to specific outcomes, focusing on
children and remaining bipartisan, it is a critical ingredient of the “secret
sauce” we can someday bring to other challenges of hunger and poverty.
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