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

Submitted by slim on Mon, 06/25/2018 - 16:24
Authors
John Wood
Publisher
Penguin Books
Year Published
2013
Copies
1
Call Number
LC158.A2 W66 2013
ISBN Number
978-0-670-02598-5
Description
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.