Bill Shore is the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit that inspires and organizes individuals and businesses to share their strengths in innovative ways to help end hunger. Shore is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength that provides consulting services.
Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine and subsequently renewed concern about hunger in the United States. Since its founding, Share Our Strength has raised over $180 million to support more than 1,000 anti-hunger, anti-poverty groups worldwide.
Prior to founding Share Our Strength, Shore served on the senatorial and presidential campaign staffs of U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.) He also served as chief of staff for U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.)
Shore is also an author. His three books include Revolution of the Heart (1995), The Cathedral Within (1999) and The Light of Conscience (2004).
Shore earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Strategic planning in most organizations, I find, certainly in the non-profit sector tends to be more episodic than...you know, strategic and regular. And we're probably guilty of that as well. But I do think we take a number of break points over the course of the year and we do, kind of...we do, ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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