My name is Abby Schuman, and I am incredibly excited to intern with the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH) this summer. I am a rising senior at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in Political Science and Philosophy. This internship provides an...

“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature” declared the actress who portrayed her in what became one of the most popular, often quoted and well-remembered television ads of the late 1970s. “You’ll think it’s butter but it’s not,” she claimed. The “it” being referred to was...

By Matt Levine Historically, every February 12th (Jack & Eleanor Borden’s wedding anniversary), NFESH awards kosher meal grants through the Jack & Eleanor Borden Memorial Fund. Last year, with so much need exacerbated by COVID, NFESH focused the Borden Fund...

We Americans, and probably millions of folks across the continents, routinely and ritually begin a new year by declaring the intention to make some desired changes/improvements in our lives. Yes, we participate in the centuries old practice of making New Year’s...

Sometime in the mid-to-late eighteenth century, the great Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote: “O, wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as others see us!” A rough and wordy modern paraphrase of that famous line, at least for the purposes of this blog, might...

There's an old, familiar saying that goes like this: "Like mother, like daughter."  It seems a propos to recall that today as we present these words by Megan Gold, daughter of NFESH Board Chair Kathy Wilson-Gold. We won't attempt more of an introduction than that...

It is a reasonable assumption that most Americans “of a certain age,” which is to say senior citizens, can repeat and translate the Latin motto that since 1782 has been part of the Great Seal of the United States. E Pluribus Unum. Out of many, one. And it is fitting...

NFESH was essentially started or re-born 10 years ago out of a common belief: Senior Hunger in America was and is a fact that we just aren’t willing to accept. That’s it. We didn’t know what we were going to do or how we were going to do it. We just knew what we stood...

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Grandma Moses is well known and widely praised for her “senior career” as a painter… and sometimes that recognition inadvertently suggests that senior citizens who display a particular talent or otherwise excel in later life are anomalies. It is certainly true that...