As a physician, Dr. Joseph Ojwang has always been ambitious around his passion for health and medicine. But after losing both of his grandparents to liver disease, he felt a different kind drive – one that was aimed at understanding exactly what was causing this complicated and ruthless disorder that had killed not just his […]
Ernest Kakwano firmly believes that the future of business, and our world, will belong to those with new ideas. It’s why, he says, he is proud to be part of the World Food Bank team. “New ideas must be implemented quickly in order to realize profit and serve humanity while they are still relevant. New […]
Recently, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) released a report titled, “The Financial Performance of Impact Investing through Private Debt,” which finds that private debt currently makes up the largest asset class in impact investing, according to Forbes Magazine. A summary of the report’s findings state: “The Financial Performance of Impact Investing Through Private Debt […]
Our CEO Richard Lackey recently returned from Washington, D.C., where he spent two days this month attending his first meetings as an official member of BIFAD (the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development). Richard was recently appointed to serve as a member of BIFAD by President Donald J. Trump. As a member of this […]
Growing up in urban Uganda, Ronnie Kaddu spent a lot of leisure time visiting local farms and dissecting insects. It wasn’t all just for fun. As the son of a parasitologist who was studying how communicable diseases spread in rural villages, Ronnie’s father often enlisted Ronnie and his siblings as assistants, bringing them along to […]
President Donald J. Trump recently announced his intent to nominate World Food Bank Founder and CEO Richard Lackey to the U.S. Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD). White House officials confirmed Mr. Lackey’s nomination to be a member of BIFAD. As a member of BIFAD, Mr. Lackey will hold a key position within […]
Our CEO Richard Lackey had the opportunity to speak with Tim Hammerich of the Future of Agriculture Podcast this month about the World Food Bank’s innovative, for-profit model to agricultural development in Africa and beyond. We hope you’ll take a moment to check out this engaging conversation, and let us know what you think! Listen […]
In 2010, Buzz Matthews helped his wife create and open a non-profit restaurant with the mission to give back to their home community of Denver, Colorado. The project aimed to nutritiously feed homeless and hungry people with dignity, through a “pay-it-forward” model. In opening the restaurant, Buzz, whose career spans 30 years across the areas […]
The father of medicine, Hippocrates, said in 431 B.C. “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Global health encompasses several components, ranging from immunizations to mental health. In 1950, when the World Health Organization designated April 7th as World Health Day, the organization made aware the areas of the globe that need more resources […]
The World Food Bank is pleased to announce that our Founder and CEO Richard Lackey has been appointed to the USAID Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), a nonpartisan committee established to link USAID leadership to private companies and organizations working in foreign development and humanitarian aid overseas. Mr. Lackey was invited to join […]
