Our friends at the Vancouver, BC, Chapter of Room to Read were honored in San Francisco last week.  The Chapter receive a "Zackie" (reference to Zack the Yak that carried the first delivery of books to a library by Room to Read).  The Vancouver team completed an excellent year full of initiatives that were rewarded by great success in fund-raising for the benefits of the children served by Room to Read.

Congratulations to Chapter Leaders Lisa Clement, Sharon Davis, Joyce Reid and their team!

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For those of you located in the Greater vancouver area, our friends at the local chapter of Room to Read are hosting an event open to the public with attendance by donation featuring Allison Rouse, Senior Development Officer. The event will be held on May 14th from 7 to 9pm at the Elsie Roy School in False Creek (in the library). Here is more information about Allison's career. This promises to be a very interesting evening.

As the Senior Development Director, Allison Rouse and his team are tasked with raising $14 million to support Room to Read ambitious 2009 programmatic goal: provide educational opportunities to an additional 100,000 children in the developing world.  Allison recently joined the Global Office of Room to Read after spending a year working in Southern Africa as Room to Read’s Regional Director.  In that capacity he oversaw the launch of Room to Read Zambia and managed day-to-day operations of the organization’s of the South Africa office. 

Prior to his appointment with Room to Read, Allison worked with the San Francisco-based KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation, both in programs and fundraising. For two years he led a team of four full-time and two part-time employees in successfully recruiting and hiring 14 educators to start new KIPP schools throughout the United States.  Two years later, Allison was promoted to Director of Outreach and Institutional Advancement and generated over $25 million from new donors to support the KIPP Foundation’s core operations, individual KIPP schools and special projects. 

In August of 2006, Allison and his wife moved to Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso where his wife helped start a pediatric AIDS clinic.  During that year, he continued his fundraising efforts for KIPP and was also instrumental for developing relationships in Africa for the Stanford Graduate School of Business and helped with start-up work for African LeadershipAcademy in South Africa.  Allison has worked and traveled in many African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania. He currently resides with his wife in Sunnyvale, CA

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