Room to Read John Wood Fellowship Awarded 2002 
Room to Read's mission is to provide underprivileged children in the developing world with an opportunity to gain the lifelong gift of education. They do so by partnering with communities to build schools, establish John Wood spent the majority of his professional career as an executive with Microsoft from 1991-1999. He left the company in order to devote "the second chapter of my adult life" to providing access to education and literacy for millions of children across the developing world. Since receiving the Draper Richards Foundation grant, Room to Read has received of the Fast Company/Monitor Group "Social Capitalist Award" four times. Room to Read is also a two-time winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and was featured at the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative. You can read more about this amazing and effective organization at www.roomtoread.org. |
