Creating Room to Read

Author: John Wood
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0670025984

Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

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. Download Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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.

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