With over 10,000 libraries opened worldwide and 7.4 million books already distributed to children in its 10 years, (46)Room to Read—a nonprofit that promotes global literacy— aspires to curb the staggering figure of 759 million illiterate adults living in emerging nations.
"If every charity was run with more of a business focus, the world would be a better place,", says John Wood, a former senior executive at Microsoft before founding Room to Read in 2000. "We’ve created what I consider to be a hybrid organization——the best of charity merged with the best of business."
The organization’s goal is to raise $30 million in 2010. In 2009, Room to Read raised $28.3 million in cash and stock—well above its $23 million goal and a 28% increase over its 2008 contributions.
Technology is key for the company to achieve its goals. The Salesforce.com Foundation has donated Salesforce CRM licenses to he
With over 10,000 libraries opened worldwide and 7.4 million books already distributed to children in its 10 years, (46)Room to Read—a nonprofit that promotes global literacy— aspires to curb the staggering figure of 759 million illiterate adults living in emerging nations.
"If every charity was run with more of a business focus, the world would be a better place,", says John Wood, a former senior executive at Microsoft before founding Room to Read in 2000. "We’ve created what I consider to be a hybrid organization——the best of charity merged with the best of business."
The organization’s goal is to raise $30 million in 2010. In 2009, Room to Read raised $28.3 million in cash and stock—well above its $23 million goal and a 28% increase over its 2008 contributions.
Technology is key for the company to achieve its goals. The Salesforce.com Foundation has donated Salesforce CRM licenses to he
Most libraries require you to register before you are allowed to borrow any of their materials. This means you will probably be asked to fill out and sign a registration card. When you do this, you are not only giving the library your name and address for their files, you are also signing an agreement. The agreement says, basically, that you will obey the rules of the library.
Once you are registered, you will be issued a library, or borrower’s card. Each time you check out, that is, officially borrow something from the library, you will have to present this card to the librarians.
You usually check out and return borrowed materials at the same desk. The library staff member at this desk will take your card and stamped the book card with a date. This is the date by which you are expected to return the materials to the library, so others can have the chance of borrowing it.
Some libraries charge a fine for each day a library book is overdue. T
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