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Hunger and Generosity |
| Published: July 8, 2007, 8:22 pm |
| Tags: hunger, politics, community, social justice |
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My friend pat found this wonderful article about Robert Egger, respected and admired as founder of D.C. Central Kitchen and longtime revolutionary in the war against hunger, recently won the food industry's Duke Zeibert Capital Achievement Award for his humanitarian work. Tamara Jones interviewed him for the Washington Post. Here are some of his thoughts on generosity, change and current trends in charity and hunger. You can read the full article here.Do 20-somethings give? Is there an age when people start giving?Both the economy and the attitudes of the younger generation are going to shift. They see their time as philanthropy. Is there a glamour factor to that, too?This is one of my major concerns, that what we've really kind of devolved into is almost cause-of-the-year, what's popular, who has the best pitch.Who's where in the caste system that you see emerging right now?You have all these efforts to feed hungry children when the reality is there are probably more hungry seniors [ Full article ] |
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