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"We are too poor to afford education. But until we have education, how will we ever not be poor?" - Headmaster in rural Nepal It is such...
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John Wood
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Occupation
- Founder & Executive Chairman of Room to Read
- Bio
- At age 35, John Wood left an executive career track at Microsoft Corporation to form Room to Read, a nonprofit organization that “combines the heart of Mother Theresa with the scalability of Starbucks†to help children across the developing world break the cycle of poverty through the power of education. In his award-winning memoir, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (Collins, 2006), John tells the story of how he raised over $80 million of financial commitments from a “standing start†to develop one of the fastest-growing non-profits in history.
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- roomtoread.org
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- 1/2009
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