Margarette Purvis, 39, is president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City. She lives in Harlem.

A. An investment in another person - volunteering or raising your voice on behalf of someone else. Or making sure your company is a good corporate citizen because the return on that investment will be a better city. Everyone around the world looks to New York City as an example, and having hunger here is a stain on our city. There aren't enough Disney characters to clean it out. The Food Bank is like a barn raising - neighbors helping neighbors.

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