by Matt Levine | Jun 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Margaret Ingraham | Mar 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
“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 Margaret Ingraham | Feb 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Margaret Ingraham | Jan 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Matt Levine | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Margaret Ingraham | Nov 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...