| \n The US-ASEAN Business Council is pleased to highlight a luncheon for | \n
| \n Corporate Partnership with Room to Read Luncheon | \n
| \n Friday\, February 14th\, 2014 \n 12:00pm - 2:00pm \n \n The Law \;Offices of Jones Day \n 300 New Jersey Avenue NW \n Washington DC \n \n This event is free-of-charge. | \n
| \n Please respond before Thursday\, February 13th\, 2014 | \n
| \n The US-ASEAN Business Council is pleased to support Room to Read in a luncheon to discuss and explore ways corporations can give to \;children of Southeast Asia in order to create opportunities for them to \;pursue a quality education\, reach their full potential and contribute to their communities. The program features John Wood\, Room to Read Founder and Board Co-Chair\, \;who \;left a lucrative career at Microsoft to found Room to Read\, an award-winning nonprofit that promotes education\, gender equality and literacy worldwide. \n \n The luncheon \;will be an excellent opportunity for members to learn about and explore \;corporate social responsibility opportunities \;within various educational \;programs that Room to Read is currently organizing \;at \;in \;Cambodia\, Laos\, Vietnam and Indonesia (coming up in 2014). \n \n John has been featured in Forbes\, Time\, Barron&rsquo\;s\, Reader&rsquo\;s Digest\, CNN\, CNBC\, Fortune\, Parade\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, USA Today and others. He has been a guest on Oprah &\; Charlie Rose\, and authored Leaving Microsoft to Change the World\, and more recently Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy. John also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and New York University&rsquo\;s Stern School of Business\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Clinton Global Initiative. For his bio\, please click here. \; \n \n For more information about Room to Read\, please click here. \; \n \n For inquiry of this program\, please contact Wanlapa "\;Fon"\; Komkai at fwanlapa@usasean.org or 202 416 6706. \; \n \; | \n