We've always said The Power of Half is about relationships, what our act of giving did for our family's togetherness and connectedness. But it ...

When we decided to start our family project, we told a few friends and family, then we stopped. Partly, we recognized that we weren't ...

In today's New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof reminds us why he might be the best thinker out there on global issues. If you're ...

Yes, it's (click here).....

A common question comes up each time we discuss our Power of Half project: As we talk about what happened to our family during the ...

When you get an email like this, it makes it all worthwhile. (The edits are mine, to protect the girl's privacy.)

Dear Hannah ...

We've finished the end of the first leg of the book tour, a fun and exhausting 10-day jaunt. We visited 8 schools, read at ...

There's a great new addition on Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's site: The readers' guide is now available and there are a ton of thought-provoking questions in ...

Road trips rarely go exactly as planned, and this one has been no exception. We were hit by a foot of snow for launch ...

A little while back, I wrote about how much giving is enough (that post is here). Quantity makes for an interesting debate, and ...

Check out this article. I love her humor and ideas on new-found money.

Blizzard, what blizzard? About 70 folks braved the elements to join us at the Corner Bookstore for the New York launch of The Power ...

Power of Half friends,

Because we are in the spotlight, we get some heartbreaking notes from people who have fallen on hard times. We know ...

Hey Power of Half friends, sometimes people think they have to do something huge to make a difference. Our family thinks -- as we ...

After our family was on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, we received some emails about our project. This one, from Jennifer Antonia Lewis Amoah of ...

TiVo alerts left, right and center this week.

Sunday morning we'll be on CBS Sunday Morning in a piece by correspondent Mark Strassmann. ...

Just started reading Richard Gunderman's "We Make a Life by What We Give." I must say, he grabs me at the Preface ...

Our appearance this afternoon on PRI's The World with host Marco Worman.

Thanks to the 150 friends, old and new, who came to Barnes & Noble last night for the opening night of The Power of Half. ...

I’ve always said that our half project was the most self-interested thing our family ever did. Giving away half of something we had too ...

If you're like our family, deciding how much money to give to charity is something of a guess. Each December, Joan and I would sit ...

Power of Half Line of the Day goes to Nina: "Hey, Daddy, wanna show them up...??? What if we sell the house and donate ...

Is just one of the very cool blog posts we've been reading about our book.

Check out the Samaritan Blog, with this section: ...

The big hits are the big hits: Nick Kristof's wonderful column about us and the Parade Magazine excerpt.

But so many ...

There are a host of reasons authors write books -- to tell a story, to push a message, to bolster their egos, among ...

Holy cow!! In the day since Nick Kristof wrote his column about our family, more than 200 people have commented on his blog. Some ...

If there is a question we get more than any other it's "Why did you do this project in Africa?" Often it's asked in ...

In a series of posts, my family of 5 will reflect on our reading of The Power of Half, chapter by chapter. ...