The Power of Half by Kevin Salwen

Author:Kevin Salwen [Salwen, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Christmas came and went, and we rolled into the new semester of school. There were brief conversations about our New York meetings and several follow-up calls for due diligence, but we made no decisions.

Several weeks later, on a Thursday afternoon, after the kids had returned from school, we settled into the living room sofa for a Skype conversation with the last group, Freedom from Hunger, the California-based organization that had created the Jane Pauley video. When I say "settled into," I mean it. This conversation started with a brief description by the Freedom from Hunger team of their vision and programs. Then Hannah asked how their methodology differed from the $2.3 trillion of waste.

But as the video chat went on, the kids sank deeper and deeper into the couch cushions. At one point I elbowed Hannah (off-camera, I hoped) to keep her engaged. Joseph was snacking again to stay awake. (We have since joked, "What is it about discussing hunger that makes Joseph so hungry?") Finally, after about twenty minutes, the kids crafted some excuse about homework and asked to leave the meeting. Joan and I finished several minutes later, but it was clear that the format had doomed Freedom from Hunger's chances.

It was time to decide. The following weekend Joan brought the whiteboard and a set of colored dry-erase markers downstairs. Along the top of the board she listed the names of the four organizations, and then she wrote a series of questions that would help us decide:

Who is in control, the West or Africans?

Can we have enough impact with our amount of money?

Can we complete a project?

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