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On Thursday, June 12 at Noon New Dominion Bookshop will host: Carolyn Chadwick, producer of NPR/National Geographic’s Radio Expedition, and Alex Chadwick, NPR news correspondent, who will present and discuss Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World by Wilford Welch A hundred years from now, people all over the world will look back at this time, the cusp of the new millennium, and realize that it marked the beginning of a dramatic shift in human consciousness regarding our social and environmental actions on earth. The Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World by Wilford Welch, a former US diplomat, lawyer and an international business strategy consultant, is a guide to individuals seeking to contribute to this vision. It inspires and supports individuals by providing strategies and tactics that will help transform their personal concerns into meaningful actions that will address critical social and environmental challenges The Tactics of Hope highlights the initiatives of twenty-seven social entrepreneurs who have identified solutions to alleviate the plight of the extreme poor and restore the environment. The stories of these social entrepreneurs are rich with insights, weaving together a mosaic of world-changing individuals who present concrete solutions, often utilizing business practices for a social benefit.Examples of Social Entrepreneurship include: · Liza Kimbo, a Kenyan social entrepreneur who has created a franchise model of medical clinics in remote areas run by unemployed nurses who sell life-saving pharmaceutical drugs at affordable prices to families suffering from treatable diseases.· Rodrigo Baggio, a Brazilian technology consultant, provides recycled computers to poor children in the favellas to help bridge the digital divide.· Matt and Jessica Flannery, an American couple, who created an internet-based microcredit enterprise that raises $100,000 each day from individuals lending amounts from $25 upwards to entrepreneurs in developing countries.· Agung Prana, an Indonesian, who has engaged his local community and technology to restore coral reefs.These social entrepreneurs suggest ways that each reader can redefine a career, choose a new one, or support someone else’s initiative to address those social and environmental challenges that are of concern to them. The Tactics of Hope also shows how individuals can “do good” for others and “do well” for themselves at the same time, a wonderful opportunity for many — young adults, career professionals, retirees, students, and teachers — to seek new opportunities to make a living, while helping to transform the world.A cutting edge, open source, wiki-based website, ( www.TacticsofHope.org), is also being released with the book to enable people around the world to explore options on how to address their environmental and social concerns. The website has been designed to enable the user to connect with other individuals around the world who have expressed similar interests and would like to collaborate.About the Author: For the past forty five years, Wilford Welch, has been living and working all over the world in six professions: as a US diplomat, an international business strategy consultant, the publisher of a world affairs publication appearing in six languages, a lawyer who initially specialized in Chinese law, a professor of international business management, and most recently as the cofounder of a series of gatherings around the world with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu focusing on exactly the issues and solutions highlighted in his new book, The Tactics of Hope. About our Guest Presenters: Carolyn Jensen Chadwick For the past seventeen years, Carolyn Jensen Chadwick has been the Executive Producer of the nationally broadcast NPR/National Geographic Society radio program “Radio Expeditions.” She currently is President of Conservation Sound, a company that captures sound from all over the world that engagees audiences in the wonders if the natural world and the possibilities of the wonders of the natural world being destroyed for future generations. Carolyn is married to Alex Chadwick, a well known national public radio personality. Alex Chadwick For almost 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News correspondent, producer and program host. He’s reported from every continent except Antarctica. Chadwick’s current role is host of NPR’s new program, Day to Day, a weekday, one-hour newsmagazine produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate Magazine. The program is NPR’s first new newsmagazine since 1985. An effortless interviewer, Chadwick connects with everyday people and issues in a way that welcomes listeners to even the most challenging subjects.
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