ITHACA, N.Y. -- Bill Shore, the founder and CEO of Share Our Strength, a leading organization that mobilizes industries and individuals to fight hunger and poverty, will speak at Cornell University Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 4:30 p.m. in G73 Martha Van Rensselaer (MVR) Hall.

The title of Shore's talk is "The Light of Conscience: How a Simple Act Can Change Your Life," which is also the title of Shore's most recent book (Random House 2004) that explores how acts of conscience can and have changed the world.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service, an interdisciplinary event sponsored by Cornell's College of Human Ecology and the Department of Human Development. The Iscol Family program is designed to inspire undergraduate students to become leaders in public service who will address the intractable problems that face society, such as hunger, poverty, ignorance, homelessness and violence.

The audience is invited to a buffet supper in the Belkin Courtyard of MVR Hall immediately following the program.

Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 in response to the Ethiopian famine. Since its founding, the organization has distributed more than $79 million in grants to more than 1,000 anti-hunger, anti-poverty groups worldwide. A subsidiary, Community Wealth Ventures, Inc., which Shore also chairs, is a for-profit organization that provides consulting services to corporations, foundations and nonprofit organization focusing on social issues.

From 1978 through 1987, Shore served on the senatorial and presidential campaign staffs of U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.); from 1988 to 1991, he served as chief of staff for U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey (D-Neb.). He also is the author of Revolution of the Heart (1995) and The Cathedral Within (1999).

Shore earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He currently serves on the board of directors of Timberland Co. and teaches a class on social entrepreneurship at New York University's Stern School of Business.

The Iscol family includes Ken Iscol, a 1960 Cornell alumnus who has advised on personal enterprise and small business studies at Cornell and is a founding supporter of the Center for the Environment also at Cornell. His wife, Jill Iscol, manages the family's foundation and, with her husband, founded the Leadership Development in Public Service program. Their children are Cornell alumni Zachary '01 and Kiva '03.

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oAbout The Light of Conscience

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oShare Our Strength: http://www.strength.org/