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A Mother's Day Tribute: The Role of Women and Parenting in Girls' Education Around the World

Erin Ganju | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Girls, Women, Gender Equality, Room to Read, Education, Parenting, Mother's Day, Illiteracy, Female Illiteracy, Video, Impact News

Parental involvement plays a paramount role in shaping girls' expectations for themselves and deciding how long they will remain in school.

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Travel Bloggers Building Libraries In Zambia

Pam Mandel | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Reading, Passports With Purpose, Travel Literature, Pwp, Philanthropy, Room to Read, Travel Blogs, Books, Travel Books, Giving, Travel News

This year, Passports with Purpose, the travel blogger's fundraiser, is supporting Room to Read. Here's how you can help children learn to love books.

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Driving a School Bus From New York to Mongolia

Grif Peterson | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Room to Read, Budget Travel, Christina Noble Children's Foundation, Adventure Travel, Mongol Rally, Mongolia, 2big2fail, Impact News

Knowing only that I wanted to take a few months off after working in finance in New York for the past two years, I came across the Mongol Rally in mid-2010.

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Copy Of Obama Birth Certificate Signed By Trump, Auctioned For Charity

Sarah Granger | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Twitter, White House, Room to Read, Ebay, Birth Certificate, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Birther, Ebay Giving Works, Obama, Obama Birth Certificate, Trump, Obama's Birth Certificate, White House Correspondents Dinner, Donald Trump Birth Certificate Obama, Donald Trump Obama Birth Certificate, Impact News

Katie Jacobs Stanton didn't get a job at the White House by being shy. So when the opportunity to meet Donald Trump came up, she hatched a plan: to get his autograph on a copy of Obama's birth certificate.

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Don't Know Melanne Verveer? Why you Should

Homa Sabet Tavangar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Vital Voices Global Partnership, Women's History Month, Children, Goldman Sachs 10, Tahirih Justice Center, Women in the World Conference, 10x10, Women's Empowerment, Plan USA, Girl Effect, The Daily Beast, Women, Polaris Project, Joint Women's Leadership Symposium, President Barack Obama, Growing Up Global, Room to Read, Rebecca Project, Global Giving, Sea Service Leadership Association, Facebook, Girl UP, Japan, Haiti, Women for Women International, Girls, Melanne Verveer, Girl Scouts, Armed Services, Three Cups of Tea, Hillary Clinton, 000 Women, Girls Inc., U.S. State Department, Impact News

Women stand at the center of every type of dramatic change occurring in the world today: whether it's coordinating relief in Japan, consolidating democracy in Egypt or running Facebook.

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Note to Parents

Erin Ganju | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books for Kids, Literacy, Education, Picture Books, Educational Literacy, Reading, Room to Read, Books News

We've actually seen the opposite hold true in developing nations, where picture books (or story books) remain a crucial tool in laying a solid foundation for literacy and life-long learning among children.

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The Four R's: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic... and Restrooms

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Sanitation is a basic need that could enable a new destiny for billions of people and it is time to apply the same degree of innovation and ingenuity to this problem that has been brought to bear in other fields.

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'Room to Read' Builds Libraries For Children In The Developing World

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developing World, Nonprofit, Children's Literacy, Literacy, Room to Read, John Wood, International Development, Video, Impact News

Children in New Delhi now have access to libraries and other educational opportunities thanks to the work of the international nonprofit Room to Read....

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Worshipping the Written Word

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hindu, Rationalism, Missions, Literacy, Evangelicalism, India, Room to Read, Bibliolatry, Habele, Impact News

For poor people around the world, reading is seen as the means to a better life, a ticket into the 21st century and a way to join the global economy.

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Fledging Wine: Twitter Launches Wine Label To Benefit "Room To Read" Nonprofit

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fledging Wines, Twitter Bottles for Books, Twitter Wine Charity, Twitter, Twitter Wine, Twitter Room to Read, Bottles for Books, Room to Read, Twitter Wine Books, Crushpad, Technology News

(Michelle Locke, AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- Everyone likes a wine with character. How about one with 140 of them? Yes, the people at Twitter - the social m...

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Leaving Microsoft To Change The World: Q&A With John Wood, Founder and CEO Of Room To Read

GOOD Magazine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Room to Read, The Giving Life, John Wood, Healthy Living News

In 1998, John Wood was a dedicated Microsoft executive who needed a vacation. That year, while trekking through Nepal, he encountered a village so ban...

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