SURRY, ME - OCTOBER 5, 2009 - Florence Reed, founder and president of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), will be a delegate at The Opportunity Collaboration, a four day strategic poverty alleviation summit commencing on October 17th, World Poverty Day.  Reed, whose Maine-based international non-profit provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to overcome poverty while restoring the planet's tropical forests, will join about 250 other delegates from such organizations as Ashoka, the Aspen Network of Development…

Surry, ME - September 22, 2009 - What do Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, and Florence Reed have in common? They are all Americans who have spoken the truth. And they are all featured in Robert Shetterly's series Americans Who Tell the Truth, http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/,  a collection of portraits and quotes of those who have helped to make America strong.  Shetterly, a Brooksville, ME-based artist, recently added Reed to his collection because of her work with Central American farming families; as the…

Surry, ME - April 28, 2009 - There's been another crack in the glass ceiling, and we can thank Florence Reed for that.  President of Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping third world countries practice sustainable farming techniques, SHI made Charity Navigator's most recent top ten list of best managed environmental non-profits in the country.  But even more impressive is that it was the only organization on the list run by a woman. "When people work…