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The inspirational tale of a previous Microsoft executive's mission to build libraries surrounding the world and share the love of books What's happened since John Timber left Microsoft to improve the globe? Just ask six million kids in the poorest parts of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at age 35, Wood stop a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to learn. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the expanding world", he strove to bring the lessons of the organization world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly. In his acclaimed first publication, Giving Microsoft to Change the World, Wood discussed his eye-sight and the storyplot of his start-up. Now, he tackles the organization's next steps and its latest troubles - from managing expansion to increasing money in a collapsing market to publishing books for children who virtually have no books in their indigenous terms. At its heart, Creating Room to Read stocks moving stories of individuals Room to learn works to help: impoverished children whose academic institutions and villages have been swept away by war or natural disaster and women whose educations would otherwise be ignored. People at the best levels of funding, authorities, and philanthropy will accept the chance to learn Wood's motivating business design and blueprint for doing good. And basic listeners will like Creating Room to Read for its spellbinding story of 1 man's mission to place books within every child's reach.
