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Kevin Blair, Professor of Social Work at Niagara University and Academic Director for the SHECP Program at Niagara, has just published a...

Lexington, VA – 3 November 2014 – Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) today In this capacity, Ms. DeHart will...

“The Affordable Care Act and Low-Income Americans” Timothy S. Jost Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law Washington and Lee...

Jeanne DuBois, head of Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (DBEDC), a successful Boston community development corporation,...

Tim Jost W&L School of Law Professor Tim Jost and Dr. David Longworth of the Cleveland Clinic will speak on the on the Affordable Care...

Honor in Service: Leaders Responding to the Needs of Our Time March 9-11, 2015 The 2015 Virginia Military Institute Leadership Conference...

Harlan Beckley Harlan Beckley, executive director of the Shepherd Higher Education on Poverty, will speak at the Chautauqua Institution...

Brian Pusser, program coordinator for higher education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, and Christian...

Louwanda Evans, assistant professor of sociology at Millsaps College, won a grant from the Associated Colleges of the South (ASC) to...

The Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty (SHECP) has received a $25,000 matching grant from The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz...

It’s not your typical, run of the mill soup kitchen.  Instead of the homeless coming to them, the Campus Kitchen Project at Washington &...

Howard Pickett has been named director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability at...

WACO, Texas (March 18, 2013) – The Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) at Baylor University has received a $3.5 million Community Partnership...