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Jim Ziolkowski

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http://www.builldOn.org

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Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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August 2013

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Jim Ziolkowski is the Founder, President and CEO of buildOn, a non-profit organization that builds schools in developing countries while also running community-service programs for high school students in America. At home or abroad, Jim’s goal is to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service and education. Inspired by his own travels to some of the most impoverished cities in the world, Jim derailed his promising career in corporate finance to dedicate his life to an unabashedly idealistic mission.

Since it was founded in 1992, buildOn students have contributed more than 1,000,000 hours of service. Many of these students have also been involved in building over 500 schools in Haiti, Nicaragua, Mali, Malawi, ...more

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Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?
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Jim Ziolkowski (Goodreads Author),

James S. Hirsch (Primary Contributor)

4.17 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions

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“Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others.”
― Jim Ziolkowski, Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?

tags: inspirational, service

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“If you educate a boy, you educate one person. If you educate a girl, you educate an entire community.”
― Jim Ziolkowski

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“Fear is useless; what is needed is trust.”
― Jim Ziolkowski

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“The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, joy, service, soul, volunteerism

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“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: challanges

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“Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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