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Young Women's League General Meeting with Guest Speaker Jim Ziolkowski

Young Women's League General Meeting with Guest Speaker Jim Ziolkowski

7:00 - 7:30 Cocktails

7:30 - 8:00 Guest Speaker - Jim Ziolkowski of buildOn

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Followed by brief YWL business & socializing

Jim Ziolkowski is the Founder, President and CEO of buildOn, a non-profit organization that builds schools in developing countries while also running afterschool service programs in America’s toughest inner-cities.  Jim's book, Walk in Their Shoes, tells the story of how twenty-one years ago, Jim gave up a promising career in corporate finance to create buildOn. He set out to show not that he could change the world- but how each of us can. It is a global chronicle of the boundless potential of faith and the human spirit, and tells the story of the buildOn movement and the thousands of young people who have decided to step forward, step up, and make a difference.

Here is a link from his latest TV interview last week on the Today Show  http://www.buildon.org/2013/09/19/today-show-buildon-program-helps-students-escape-poverty/

Please go to www.ywlnewcanaan.org to register.

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