Executive Leadership

Shore is also the chairman of Community Wealth Ventures®, Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength that offers strategy and implementation services to foundations and nonprofit organizations, partnering with them to design and implement innovative approaches to growth and sustainability to promote social change.

From 1978 through 1987, Shore served on the senatorial and presidential cam¬paign staffs of former U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado). From 1988 to 1991, Shore served as chief of staff for former U.S. Senator Robert Kerrey (D-Nebraska).

Shore is the author of four books focused on social change, including “Revolution of the Heart” (Riverhead Press, 1995), “The Cathedral Within” (Random House, 1999), and “The Light of Conscience” (Random House, 2004). Shore’s most recent book, “The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men” (PublicAffairs, 2010), showcases the entrepreneurial strategies and qualities of character required to solve problems that affect people so voiceless, vulnerable and economically marginalized that there are no markets for solving them.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Shore earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Shore served as a director of The Timberland Company from 2001 through 2011. He was also named one of America’s Best Leaders (October 2005) by US News & World Report and most recently won an S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen.

Shore has been an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and is currently an advisor for the Reynolds Foundation Fellowship program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

As a member of the executive team, Shore is a key decision-maker on a wide range of management issues, including finances, hiring and staff development, communications, long-term sustainability and the measurement of Share Our Strength’s success and impact.

Shore supervises the culinary events department, which coordinates more than 75 seated dinners and tasting events annually, in addition to managing Share Our Strength’s relationships with top chefs and restaurateurs. Shore co-created, directed, and continues to oversee Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation^®, the nation’s largest and finest culinary benefit dedicated to making sure no kid in America grows up hungry. Now in its 23rd year, the annual event has raised more than $75 million and has built a nationwide network of thousands of volunteers across the United States and Canada.

Shore also leads Share Our Strength’s Dine Out For No Kid Hungry™. This national event mobilizes thousands of restaurants and millions of diners across America during one week in September to raise funds that help support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry^® Campaign to end childhood hunger in America by 2015.

In partnership with Catherine Townsend, Shore edited Home Food, a collection of recipes published in March 1995. Since then, more than 40,000 copies have sold nationwide. One hundred percent of the authors’ royalties support Share Our Strength’s anti-hunger efforts.

Prior to starting Share Our Strength, Shore was a political organizer and fundraiser for former U.S. Senator Gary Hart’s (D-Colorado) presidential campaign.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Shore earned her B.A. in English Literature and Philosophy from Ohio University. She has studied and traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Central America, Europe, South America, the former Soviet Union, and West Africa. She has one daughter, Sofia.

While at AARP, Nelson led the build-out of its state strategy in all 53 states and territories. He also led the reinvention of the AARP Foundation, which today serves those at risk of falling through our nation’s safety net as they struggle to meet their most basic needs.

Nelson has a long history of service to civic organizations including the National Hispanic Council on Aging where he currently serves as Chair of the Board and serving on the Board of ProInspire which is building the next generation of nonprofit leaders. Nelson also serves as Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, teaching in the MBA program about nonprofit leadership and management. He also serves on the Board of Counselors for the Davis Gerontology School at the University of Southern California.

Nelson holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and an M.A. from Columbia University.

Green has managed global operations in both mature markets and developing countries, and has strong operations, finance and human resources experience building high-performance teams. He has held leadership positions for two world-class Fortune 100 corporations known for their global operations and strong general management and finance talent (PepsiCo and Marriott International), and has also spent time in the venture capital-backed entrepreneurial world taking companies public.

Green earned a M.Sc. in economics at The London School of Economics, holds a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Tufts University, and serves on a number of boards in the education sector, including the Chair, Board of Trustees at Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., and the Board of Trustees of College Summit - National Capitol Region. He also mentors recent college graduates of Tufts University.

Green lives in the District of Columbia with his wife and three children.

Partners supporting the No Kid Hungry Campaign include American Express, ConAgra Foods^® Foundation, Food Network, Jimmy Dean, Land of Nod, USA TODAY, Williams-Sonoma, and 19 other national companies committed to ending childhood hunger in America by 2015. Scofield works with the corporate partnership team to build relationships with Share Our Strength’s key partners including Domino^® and C&H^® Sugar, Hickory Farms, Ocean Spray,Walmart, Weight Watchers, and Whole Foods.

Since 2003, Scofield has also led Share Our Strength’s Development team, dedicated to raising funds from individuals and foundations. Share Our Strength’s fundraising revenue has more than doubled under his leadership. Scofield continues to direct the team in expanding Share Our Strength’s fundraising activities by introducing new ways for individuals to get involved with Share Our Strength, most recently through the No Kid Hungry™ Pledge.

Scofield has built strong relationships among Share Our Strength’s key supporters and championed Share Our Strength’s strategy to end childhood hunger. In addition, Scofield created Share Our Strength’s Hinges of Hope™, a series of experiential learning tours that introduce leaders in the public and private sectors to the challenges facing those working to end childhood hunger in impoverished neighborhoods. Scofield is also a board member of The Opportunity Fund, and Students for International Medical Action. Scofield began his career with Share Our Strength in 1996 as its Executive Assistant, and has served as the organization’s Development Manager and Development Director. Before joining Share Our Strength, Scofield worked for Who Cares Magazine: A Journal of Service and Action, and The Relatives, Inc., an emergency shelter for homeless and runaway youth.

A native of Houston, Texas, Scofield graduated with honors from Davidson College with a B.A. in psychology. He and his family of four live in Maryland.

He has guided the department through the successful implementation of integrated communications strategies around the launch of the national No Kid Hungry Campaign and subsequent state and city-based launches. The team’s creative online work has led to rapid growth in website traffic and social media engagement, and its media relations efforts—especially those that have leveraged No Kid Hungry national spokesperson Jeff Bridges—have dramatically raised the organizational profile.

Slater has more than 20 years experience in strategic campaign communications at both national and regional nonprofits. Before joining Share Our Strength in 2010, he was the acting vice president for communications at The Wilderness Society in Washington D.C. While there, he led a national team of communications specialists focused on moving wilderness campaigns through Congress, promoting sound energy policies and protecting America’s roadless forests; he also provided messaging and overall communications guidance to coalitions and regional partner groups. Before that position, Slater was the communications director at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation where he helped develop the annual State of the Bay Report, which became a national model for environmental monitoring and communications. Early in his career, Slater worked in restaurants for nearly ten years and wrote about industry issues and trends at the National Restaurant Association.

Slater graduated with honors from the University of Virginia and holds an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University. He is an avid biker and hiker and has published short stories. He is married with two children.

Central to that effort is defining and managing the organization’s role at the federal, state and local levels; building the organization’s fundraising capacity; increasing its profile among key influencers; measuring organizational impact; and fostering inter-departmental collaboration around the goal of ending childhood hunger in America by 2015. During his tenure, Wachs has launched Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaigns to end childhood hunger in more than one dozen states and cities by creating public-private partnerships that bring together leaders from state and local government, corporations, private foundations, and local nonprofits. Wachs has built relationships with national organizations and political leaders nationwide, and led the effort to develop a strategic plan for expanding the No Kid Hungry Campaign to more states across the country.

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.

Wachs is a veteran grassroots community organizer and strategist. He has served as the Associate Dean at Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy in New York where he oversaw strategic planning, marketing and public programming. From 2002 to 2005, Wachs was the Chief Operating Officer of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) following five years in other key DNC roles. Before 1997, he spent a number of years traveling the country managing political campaigns at the local and national levels for state legislative, House and Senate candidates. He has served in a variety of roles during three presidential campaigns, and worked on two Democratic Conventions.

Wachs graduated from Oberlin College and lives in the District of Columbia with his wife Molly and three children.