272 pages, 6 x 9
Photographs Throughout
Paperback
Release Date:01 Oct 2006
ISBN:9781599471051
Passionaries’ thirty-five profiles describe leaders of volunteer organizations that are significantly impacting millions of lives. Each story chronicles the personal inspiration behind the organization, the obstacles its creator had to overcome, and lives that have been touched or changed. The success of these heroes is shared with more than twenty million mini-passionary volunteers who donate millions of hours annually—and also create ripples of vision and change. Readers will be touched, moved, and inspired. They will have access to important facts, figures, and contact information, which can encourage their active participation. Often inspired by no more than an impulse or idea, many of these passionaries have been content to work in anonymity.
Barbara R. Metzler graduated from the University of Southern California and received a masters in psychology/counseling from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. As an entrepreneur involved in the Young Presidents’ Organization,she has started five companies including a multi-million dollar corporation,
The Farmer’s Wife. In the 1980s, it was the country’s leading manufacturer offruit by-products, developing and selling fruit that her husband’s large agriculturalfarm was throwing away. She is active in her church and in many localand national non-profit organizations and resides in San Diego with her husbandof thirty years.
