Billy Shore

“Usually the odds are so formidable when you’re trying to change something like hunger or climate change or poverty that you have to have a little bit of willingness to break the rules. If you just do things in the conventional way, you’re probably going to get conventional results. When people ask what we look for in new hires at Share Our Strength, I always say ‘jaywalkers.’ I don’t want someone who is just going to stand there, waiting for the light.”

Billy Shore is the founder and chief executive officer of Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit that is ending childhood hunger in America. Shore founded Share Our Strength in 1984 with his sister Debbie and a $2,000 cash advance on a credit card. Since then, Share Our Strength has raised and invested more than $376 million in the fight against hunger, and has won the support of national leaders in in business, government, health and education, sports and entertainment.