John Wood

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Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global LiteracyPaperback, 28 January 2014

Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
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Reading Age
Ages: 18
Grade Levels
13
Print Length
290 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Plume Books
Date Published
28 Jan 2014
ISBN-10
0142180505
ISBN-13
9780142180501

Description

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive's quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books

What's happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world," he strived to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector--and succeeded spectacularly.

In his acclaimed first book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, Wood explained his vision and the story of his start-up. Now, he tackles the organization's next steps and its latest challenges--from managing expansion to raising money in a collapsing economy to publishing books for children who literally have no books in their native language. At its heart, Creating Room to Read shares moving stories of the people Room to Read works to help: impoverished children whose schools and villages have been swept away by war or natural disaster and girls whose educations would otherwise be ignored.

People at the highest levels of finance, government, and philanthropy will embrace the opportunity to learn Wood's inspiring business model and blueprint for doing good. And general readers will love Creating Room to Read for its spellbinding story of one man's mission to put books within every child's reach.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 18
Author:
John Wood
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
28 January 2014
Dimensions:
20.52 x 13.64 x 1.75 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 13
ISBN-10:
0142180505
ISBN-13:
9780142180501
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
290
Publisher:
Weight:
249.48 gm

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