Josh Wachs
Chief Strategy Officer
Share Our Strength
Josh is responsible for developing and implementing the long-term operating plan to ensure Operation No Kid Hungry’s success. Central to that plan is defining and managing Share Our Strength’s role at the federal, state and local levels, building the organization’s fundraising capacity, increasing its organizational profile among key influencers, measuring organizational impact through its grant-making efforts, and fostering inter-departmental collaboration around the Operation No Kid Hungry campaign. Before joining Share Our Strength in 2009, Wachs was the NBA’s Vice President of Community Relations. There he oversaw NBA Cares, the league’s public service and community outreach program that provides funds, community service, and locations for kids and families to live, learn and play…just as Share Our Strength works to make sure that kids and their families have nutritious food where they live, learn and play.
Posts By Josh Wachs on Strength.org
- Making Healthy Choices Easy Choices With Help From Walmart [ No comments]
- February 7, 2012
This week, the Walmart Foundation announced a $4 million grant to Share Our Strength for our Cooking Matters program and its new initiative, Shopping Matters. These programs are key strategies in our No Kid Hungry Campaign, which works to increase access to public food and nutrition programs and educate families on how to get more from their food resources. Walmart’s generous support will allow us to expand the program to help many more families across the country.
Tags: cooking matters, walmart - "MyPlate" Replaces USDA's Food Pyramid [ No comments]
- June 2, 2011
Yesterday, I was pleased to join First Lady Michelle Obama, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin at the launch of MyPlate, the government’s new icon to help Americans make healthier food choices. The colorful plate is a streamlined version of MyPyramid, which many of you may remember learning in school.
Tags: cooking matters, michelle obama, my plate, USDA - Summer Meals Truck Delivers in NYC [ 2 comments]
- July 20, 2010
This summer we've partnered with SchoolFood -- the largest school food service provider in the United States -- and the New York City Department of Education to pilot a Summer Meals truck, bringing the food to where the kids live and play.
Tags: new york city, no kid hungry, summer meals - Colorado’s Plan to End Childhood Hunger [ No comments]
- July 12, 2010
Read Colorado Governor Bill Ritter's remarks to the National Governors Association, outlining his state's plan to end childhood hunger by 2015.
Tags: government, no kid hungry, state partnerships - No Kid Hungry in Colorado [ No comments]
- November 25, 2009
Yesterday, we launched the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger in Colorado with Governor Ritter, Lieutenant Governor O’Brien and Senator Bennett at Place Bridge Academy, part of the Denver Public Schools...
Tags: classroom, colorado, state partnerships - The Strategy to End Childhood Hunger in America [ 1 comment]
- November 10, 2009
This weekend at our Conference of Leaders we presented Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign strategy for ending childhood hunger in America. A number of our volunteer leaders we...
Tags: childhood hunger strategy, conference of leaders, state partnerships
