Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children by John Wood
Feeling stressed by his career with Microsoft, John Wood took a vacation to Nepal and returned with a vision to provide books to Nepalese schools. His vision grew into Room to Read, an organization that has donated more than 1.2 million books, established more than 2,600 libraries and 200 schools, and sent 1,700 girls to school on scholarship.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations…One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
After an unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, Greg Mortenson was nursed back to health a Pakistani village. He promised to return and build them a school, which led to his founding the Central Asia Institute. His organization has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by David Bornstein
Journalist David Bornstein profiles nine champions of social change who developed innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; inner-city Washington, D.C., and more. Their inspiring stories show the wide-ranging possibilities in social entrepreneurship and the growing “citizen sector” to make a lasting impact on large-scale social problems.

Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works
by Stephen C. Smith
Global poverty expert Stephen Smith gives readers the tools and knowledge to help people overcome poverty and determine what solutions are most effective at fighting it. Smith gives a close-up view of innovative and effective programs that are making a real difference, and describes how companies and foreign investors could play a constructive role in addressing the problems.

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty by 2025. His focus is to help the one billion poorest individuals around the world rise above mere subsistence level and achieve some control over their economic futures and their lives. To do this, Sachs proposes nine specific steps, explained in detail in this book.

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