Room to Read has an interesting story and a great relationship with the SVSC.
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Rahim Kanani: Describe a little bit about the inspiration and motivation behind the founding of Room to Read.
Room to Read would take that idea to poor people around the world.
FORBES: Room To Read Turns Silicon Valley Riches Into Global Libraries, Schools
At Room to Read, I see firsthand that investing in the education of children worldwide pays dividends for years to come.
Room to Read measures every dollar against number of schools, libraries, books published and distributed and the time it takes to accomplish each task.
So I took a leap of faith, quit Microsoft, cashed in my stocks and launched in 2000 what would later become Room to Read.
Why has the SVSC been so generous to Room to Read?
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After getting an MBA from Northwestern, Wood joined Microsoft in 1991 when it had 5, 000 employees and left in November 1999 to start Room to Read.
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As he explained in an October 12 interview, founder John Wood, left Microsoft (MSFT) at the peak of its economic power to start Room to Read.
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Back in the mid-'90s, before I became cofounder and chief executive officer of Room to Read, I led business development and operations for Unilever in Vietnam.
One of two awards of the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy goes to the U.S.-based Room to Read for its effective programme, Promoting Gender Equality and Literacy through Local Language Publishing.
Erin Ganju is cofounder and CEO of Room to Read, an organization that seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in the developing world by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education.
As we celebrate Room to Read's tenth anniversary, we can look back on building more than 1, 200 schools and10, 000 libraries, publishing 433 local language children's books in 22 languages and supporting almost 9, 000 girls through our Girls' Education Program.
When I asked John Wood, founder and board chair of Room to Read, an international nonprofit organization focused on literacy and gender equality in education in Asia and Africa, about Khan, he said he was actually meeting with him this week.
To me that kind of raised a light bulb in my head that when I got in the jury room I wanted to read the minutes of that meeting myself.
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There is the sociology section, the science section, old sheet music and menus, and you can go to the periodicals room anytime and read old issues of the New Statesman. (And you can whisper loudly to a friend in the next carrel to get the hockey scores.) To see that that is so is at least to drain some of the melodrama from the subject.
Certainly knowing your material will serve you, but so will your ability to read the room and shape your message to whatever feedback the audience is giving you.
Whereas their neighbours at nearby universities roam their sprawling campuses and prepare for high-powered careers, the Peach Garden children sit 50 to a room at rickety second-hand desks, learning how to read and counting themselves lucky to be in any sort of school at all.
Most of the day, the mother sat in her room and read old books, while Aryeh Zelnik listened to the radio in his room and built airplanes out of light wood.
Looking to slip out of the room without waking a sleeping woman (with whatever implications you care to read into that), the man realizes the woman is wearing his t-shirt.
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The great poet and author Maya Angelou didn't discover poetry until her mentor took her to the tiny library at her school and challenged her to read every book in the room.
The FBI said that before Tsarnaev's roommate let the three friends into the room, Kadyrbayev received a text message from Tsarnaev that read: "I'm about to leave if you need something in my room take it, " according to the FBI.
"I am a woman, " Talackova said in a prepared statement she read to reporters in Allred's conference room Tuesday.
"I am a woman, " Talackova said in a prepared statement she read to reporters in Allred's conference room last week.
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Dzhokhar was interrogated in his hospital room Sunday and Monday over a period of 16 hours without being read his rights to remain silent and have an attorney present.
That sounded like a retirement speech, but Boeheim said in the locker room later that he was referring to the fact that the season is nearly over and not to read anything more into it.
Two federal public defenders in Boston -- William Fick and Miriam Conrad -- were in the hospital room April 22 when Tsarnaev had his first court appearance, and had his Miranda rights first read to him by federal Magistrate Marianne Bowler.
Thankfully she read the pain as a warning sign and had her teenage daughter drive her to the emergency room.
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Whatever the truth of what happened in this room earlier tonight, it is unlikely to be on all fours with her statement, which she has not yet read.
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