The developing world takes a beating from the environmental crowd. Poor pollution controls, deforestation, rapid population growth. The scene can be pretty ugly.
But I'd like ...
There's an old story about Alfred Nobel. It seems that when his brother died, late in the 19th Century, an obituary writer got the story ...
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus is such a novel thinker that I find myself marveling at his audacity. By now, you likely know his ...
We're asked constantly why we chose to support The Hunger Project with our family's resources. The basics are obvious: THP's methodology to help villagers ...
We're back from our summer journey to Ghana, a trip in which we strove to better understand the people in the villages of the Eastern ...
Our family leaves for Ghana tonight (Atlanta to Accra nonstop!) and we'll be rolling up our sleeves for another round of our "work" in the ...
I had breakfast this morning with Michael Nyenhuis, the CEO of MAP International, a 50-year-old nonprofit that focuses on health in the developing ...
Hannah stopped by the Fox 5 Atlanta studios bright and early this morning for a 4 1/2-minute interview on Good Day Atlanta. ...
We are so flattered and, to be honest, shocked by all that's been going on this week.
First, Hannah received the Hasbro Community Action Hero Award ...
Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates met with Charlie Rose this week to talk about The Giving Pledge, in which they are ...
OK, I gotta admit -- when these guys play the Half Game, they play it for keeps. If you missed this Fortune ...
Two new interviews of Hannah and me are now available if you want to hear the stories, get updates on our projects, etc.
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Yesterday, Hannah and I appeared on the Diane Rehm Show, with guest host Frank Sesno sitting in for Diane. If you haven't listened to ...
Mother Teresa once said: "Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so ...
Need a gift for yourself or a friend? That grad? That dad? You're in luck.
Amazon and Barnes and ...
If you've heard us speak in person or in interviews, Hannah and I always talk about how we never expect anyone else to sell their ...
My new friend, Betty Londergan, is on an amazing mission: She is giving away $100 each day of 2010 to a worthy charity. ...
I don't get shocked very often, but two times in two days I have been. First, Joan and I were being interviewed for a ...
There's a great piece by Sonia Shah in yesterday's Los Angeles Times about malaria nets. As she points out, the nets are ...
The envelope that came in the mail last night caught my eye. That's saying something in the email era, one in which the Postal ...
Hannah and I will be joining Anne Ellinger from Bolder Giving on Thursday for a phone conversation about The Power of Half, creating philanthropic families ...
My buddy Karen just ordered The Power of Half from Better World Books. If you don't know ...
Sometimes the waste in our society drives me nuts. Sometimes I don't even notice it. I believe I experienced the latter sentence first ...
Short but to the point. You can read it here.
What a school day it has been for us; I just had to tell you about it. We began the morning in Rye, New ...
Really nice of Lifetime Network to honor Hannah as a Remarkable Woman. Short video here
In a series of posts, our family of 5 will reflect on our reading of The Power of Half, chapter by chapter. For ...
Thank you, David Brooks, for the latest in a great series of recent articles in The New York Times on the connection between happiness and ...
Desmond Tutu and his daughter, Mpho, have written a new book, Made for Goodness, which he says they decided to write after he ...
I've been thinking about money again. I guess I do that a lot these days, given the way The Power of Half forces conversations ...
This week we're launching a new offer for book clubs. If you choose to read The Power of Half and buy at least 10 ...
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 ...
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. ...
A package arrived via UPS yesterday with, drumroll please, two real honest-to-goodness copies of The Power of Half. Galleys are fun, mockups are marvelous. ...
I’m sure you read to your kids when they were little. At some point after they learned to read alone, you probably stopped. ...
Joan, Joseph and I were lucky to participate in the Glenn Institute's Family Philanthropy panel the other night. (Hannah is in Australia until Monday so ...
A friend told me a story at dog park this morning that on its face sounds painfully callous. A year or so back, he recalled, ...
One day when I was working at Café 458 (a restaurant in Atlanta for homeless men and women), I stopped by one of ...
In my 7th grade classroom, kids constantly ask to write on my whiteboard. I have Expo markers in every color of the rainbow and then ...
Welcome to the The Power of Half site and blog. Through our family project, we set out to make a small difference in the world ...
