In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, host Billy Shore talks with Maureen Conway, vice president at the Aspen Institute and executive director of the Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, and Giselli Veloz, senior program manager of parent engagement and recruitment for LIFT in New York.

The conversation explores why ending childhood hunger requires more than food alone — it also means supporting parents, reducing systemic barriers, and creating pathways to economic mobility. Maureen explains how the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program advances promising policies and practices that help low- and moderate-income people connect to better opportunities and build better lives. Giselli shares how LIFT’s coaching, cash infusions, and trust-based support help parents move toward stability. 

Together, they make the case that poverty is not an individual failure but the result of systems, and that real change comes from policy, partnership, and lived experience. If you care about child hunger, family well-being, or practical solutions to poverty, this is an essential listen.

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On this special Mother’s Day 2026 episode of Add Passion and Stir, host Billy Shore and co-host Debbie Shore talk with Lauren Bush Lauren, founder of Feed, and Nance Hastings, chair of the National Mother’s Day Council and vice president of the Father’s Day Mother’s Day Council. 

Lauren shares how a college experience abroad and time with the World Food Program inspired her to create Feed, which has helped provide more than 128 million meals to children around the world. Nance reflects on a career in beauty and philanthropy, her work leading the Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Councils, and the impact of fundraising for childhood hunger and family support. 

Together, they explore why mothers are central to children’s health, economic mobility, and long-term well-being, and why access to nutritious food matters just as much as access to food itself. This episode is a celebration of moms, mission-driven leadership, and the power of practical action to help children thrive.

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On this episode of Add Passion and Stir, host Billy Shore and co-host Debbie Shore speak with Dr. Katie Queen, a Louisiana pediatrician focused on preventing childhood obesity, and Dr. Rosemarie Allen, a lifelong early childhood and education leader. Together they explore the real-world impact of hunger, food insecurity, inequity, and policy decisions on children’s health, learning, and long-term development. 

The conversation also looks at the first 1,000 days of life, prescription programs for fresh produce, school meals, stigma around food assistance, and why investing in maternal nutrition and early childhood access is one of the most effective ways to improve outcomes for kids. 

If you care about children’s health, education, and public policy, this is a must-listen episode.

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In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, Billy Shore and Debbie Shore speak with attorney Corey Martin and former DHS attorney Jason Thomas about immigration detention, due process, and what humane policy should look like.

Corey reveals the horrifying conditions she has seen inside the immigration detention center for families and children at Dilley, TX. Jason explains how the immigration system works from the government side, and both push for a more just, practical, and human response. To be part of the solution, learn more at the nonprofit law clinic Mass Deportation Defense.

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In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, Billy Shore and Debbie Shore talk with three internal leaders about how Share Our Strength sustains and grows its mission in a turbulent time for nonprofits.

Chief Revenue Officer Leah Ray, individual giving lead Karen Barr, and corporate partnerships veteran Allison Shuffield share how a diversified, $75 million revenue portfolio, “unrelenting commitment to hospitality,” and authentic relationships with donors fuel No Kid Hungry’s work for kids and families.

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In this episode of Add Passion and Stir, co‑hosts Billy Shore and Debbie Shore talk with No Kid Hungry state directors Stacie Sanchez‑Hare (Texas), Kathy Saile (California), and Rachel Sabella (New York) about turning policy into real meals for kids.

From Texas, which has “the second highest food insecurity rate in the nation,” to California’s universal school meals and New York’s bipartisan approach where “hunger hides in plain sight,” they unpack how relationships, partnerships, and local leadership change what happens in school cafeterias and communities.

Along the way, listeners hear why “we need to think differently” about politics and why “childhood hunger is an important issue and it's manageable enough to solve.”​

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We are pleased to announce the creation of Billy Shore's regular Substack Column. Click on or copy and paste this URL

https://tinyurl.com/Billy-Shore to subscribe. In today's column, Billy talks about the horrific conditions children (many of them US citizens) are enduring while being illegally held in Migrant Detention Centers here in the United States.

Today, we are reprising a episode that we feel is really important to be heard. In May of last year, we released a podcast with three thought leaders in philanthropy, Jeff Braddock, who co-founded Bridgespan Clara Miller, who led the Herron Foundation and the Nonprofit finance fund, and Daniel Stitt of the American Enterprise Institute, and what they spoke about, about how philanthropy shows up in the face of so many challenges that we're experiencing right now. Assaults on human service organizations, assaults on social justice programs, feels even more important today as those assaults continue. This week, for example, some of the news that I've been following is among the most disturbing of anything, and we kind of, it feels like we say that week after week as developments unfold. But the story about children being detained in Dilley, Texas reminds me of what James Baldwin said when he wrote, "These are all our children and we shall either profit by or pay for whatever they become." 

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Host Billy Shore talks with Stupski Foundation CEO and author Glen Galaich about his new book, Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short, and why philanthropy must shift power from donors to communities. 

They unpack spend-down foundations, “fake rules” that keep $2 trillion sitting in endowments, and how trust-based philanthropy can move resources faster to address hunger, health inequities, and other urgent needs.

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Recorded on January 20—the day before the launch of major ICE enforcement operations—host Billy Shore speaks with Jim Wallis, founding chair of Georgetown's Center on Faith and Justice, about federal immigration actions targeting Maine communities, featuring clips from Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Gov. Janet Mills. This episode explores faith-driven courage, community solidarity amid fear, and the destabilizing impact on families and children.​

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In this year-end special of Add Passion and Stir, host Debbie Shore revisits 2025 conversations colliding with today's headlines: Trump administration's $10B freeze on childcare/social welfare funds, ICE raids terrorizing families, and KPMG's forecast of stagnant financial mobility trapping single moms.

Maine Governor Janet Mills sued over school lunch threats and won universal free meals. DC restaurateurs Peter Schechter and Eric Bruner-Yang turned kitchens into safe houses amid intense ICE raids. Chastity Lord and Elaine Waxman reveal two-generation models that deliver a "three-X multiplier" for single moms, kids, and communities. Essential listening on food justice, child poverty, and state-level solutions.​

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