Celebrating the Power of the Written Word to Create Change
On June 26, 2024, Goddard Riverside invited the community to join us for an in-person discussion about Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the Hungry with the author Jeff Gottesfeld, winner of our 2023 Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice. The event took place at our Children’s Book Giveaway at our Isaacs Center.
Join us on October 15th for an in-person discussion about Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See with the author Richard Kahlenberg winner of our 2023 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. The event will take place at Fordham University’s Lowenstein Center, 113 W. 60th Street, New York, NY 10023 at 5:30 PM.
The discussion will be moderated by Gail Collins, an Opinion columnist for The New York Times. She joined the paper in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later became an Op-Ed columnist. In 2001, she made history as the first woman appointed editor of the Times’s editorial page. In early 2007, she stepped down to take a leave of absence to finish her book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. She returned to the Times as a columnist in July 2007 and has authored numerous books on women’s history.
Before joining The New York Times, Ms. Collins was a columnist for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News, and a reporter for United Press International. Earlier in her career, she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau, which provided extensive coverage of the state capitol and Connecticut politics. By the time she sold it in 1977, CSNB was the largest news service of its kind in the country.
This book chat is in partnership with Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service.
The Book Prizes celebrates the power of the written word to create change in the name of justice for all people—a value shared by the publishing community and Goddard Riverside. Learn more.
About the Books
Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks for the Hungry by Jeff Gottesfeld
Winner of the 2023 Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice
Hunger continues to be an international problem. This book shares the true story of how one ordinary person did something extraordinary and shows how everyone can do something to make a difference.
Readers will feel encouraged to find their own way to make a difference. Real life experience plus social justice interests combine into a powerful solution, filling empty bellies with nourishing food, all without costing a lot of money. Recycling meets hunger in John van Hengel’s ingenious, yet obvious solution to both food waste and widespread hunger.
Purchase a copy of Food for Hope: How John van Hengel Invented Food Banks
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See by Richard Kahlenberg
Winner of the 2023 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
An indictment of America’s housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it.
The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than raw racism. Despite this there is hope. Kahlenberg tells the inspiring stories of the growing number of local and national movements working to tear down the walls that inflict so much damage on the lives of millions of Americans.
Purchase a copy of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don’t See.