7 Ways To Make The Grade - A Living Guide to Your Communitys Success
7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success by Doctor Bob Lee is a motivational inspirational self-help book written to advise and guide young people in their quest to make the grade and become successful in their journey through life. You will journey with the author through his childhood as he relates to his loving parents and his brothers and sisters while growing up in one of the many concrete jungles dropped into urban New York's ghettos. The Queensboro housing projects and the thousands of housing project throughout the country are to this day habitats, where only the strong-willed can survive. It was instilled in young Bob Lee that he would be one of the survivors, a leader, a teacher and a role model to all who would listen...and it worked. His father's words and his concern for Bob's well-being were the main contributors that helped shape him into the man he is today.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success traverses through a community of people: family members, friends, teachers and mentors who took an interest in Bob during his youth and throughout his adulthood. With the safety net provided by this village, a spiritual connection and the moral values instilled in him, Bob Lee was determined to build a like network for all the young people he could reach who grew up in similar surroundings. In 1986, he founded Bob Lee Enterprises, an Entertainment company, with the help of another radio personality, "Morning Man Ken Spider Webb" In 2004, Bob Lee's dream of forming an educational foundation was born, "Make the Grade Foundation for Education". He wanted the name of the foundation to be meaningful and to support the key components that could serve and strengthen communities by forming a collaboration between parents, teachers, students, community, clergy, health care and financial literacy professionals'.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is clearly, a major part of Bob Lee's thinking, as he continues to try to help other people get what they need out of life. By linking a book up to Make the Grade Foundation, he believes that he can reach the masses and locate other leaders to teach the youth to do as he is doing by building a unified movement for the betterment of the communities throughout the country.

In addition to the trials and tribulations of a child growing up in the largest housing complex in North America, Queensbridge Houses, which is a 3,142-unit complex owned by the New York City Housing Authority and his plight on becoming Doctor Bob Lee, there are numerous narrations about the benefits provided by the key components of Bob's collaboration. For instance, Bob touches on relationships between parents and their children, financial literacy, eating healthy, childhood obesity, scholarships, religion in schools, healthy minds and more.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is a multi-faceted book. The Foreword by NAACP Image Award Winning Publisher and Author, Tony Rose opens up the dialogue with an intriguing recollection of his childhood entitled, "Innovation is How I Survived and How I made the Grade." A bonus chapter, Distinguished Insight, is full of advice and life experiences from a diverse group of internationally renowned persons, including: Tuskegee Airman Doctor Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.; renowned actress Irene Cara; educator/philanthropist Samuel P. Peabody; newspaper publisher (Harlem News), Pat Stevenson; Former Congressman Ed Towns; Politician, diplomat, activist and pastor Andrew Young; Bishop T.D. Jakes; and comedian, television host and author Steve Harvey.
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7 Ways To Make The Grade - A Living Guide to Your Communitys Success
7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success by Doctor Bob Lee is a motivational inspirational self-help book written to advise and guide young people in their quest to make the grade and become successful in their journey through life. You will journey with the author through his childhood as he relates to his loving parents and his brothers and sisters while growing up in one of the many concrete jungles dropped into urban New York's ghettos. The Queensboro housing projects and the thousands of housing project throughout the country are to this day habitats, where only the strong-willed can survive. It was instilled in young Bob Lee that he would be one of the survivors, a leader, a teacher and a role model to all who would listen...and it worked. His father's words and his concern for Bob's well-being were the main contributors that helped shape him into the man he is today.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success traverses through a community of people: family members, friends, teachers and mentors who took an interest in Bob during his youth and throughout his adulthood. With the safety net provided by this village, a spiritual connection and the moral values instilled in him, Bob Lee was determined to build a like network for all the young people he could reach who grew up in similar surroundings. In 1986, he founded Bob Lee Enterprises, an Entertainment company, with the help of another radio personality, "Morning Man Ken Spider Webb" In 2004, Bob Lee's dream of forming an educational foundation was born, "Make the Grade Foundation for Education". He wanted the name of the foundation to be meaningful and to support the key components that could serve and strengthen communities by forming a collaboration between parents, teachers, students, community, clergy, health care and financial literacy professionals'.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is clearly, a major part of Bob Lee's thinking, as he continues to try to help other people get what they need out of life. By linking a book up to Make the Grade Foundation, he believes that he can reach the masses and locate other leaders to teach the youth to do as he is doing by building a unified movement for the betterment of the communities throughout the country.

In addition to the trials and tribulations of a child growing up in the largest housing complex in North America, Queensbridge Houses, which is a 3,142-unit complex owned by the New York City Housing Authority and his plight on becoming Doctor Bob Lee, there are numerous narrations about the benefits provided by the key components of Bob's collaboration. For instance, Bob touches on relationships between parents and their children, financial literacy, eating healthy, childhood obesity, scholarships, religion in schools, healthy minds and more.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is a multi-faceted book. The Foreword by NAACP Image Award Winning Publisher and Author, Tony Rose opens up the dialogue with an intriguing recollection of his childhood entitled, "Innovation is How I Survived and How I made the Grade." A bonus chapter, Distinguished Insight, is full of advice and life experiences from a diverse group of internationally renowned persons, including: Tuskegee Airman Doctor Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.; renowned actress Irene Cara; educator/philanthropist Samuel P. Peabody; newspaper publisher (Harlem News), Pat Stevenson; Former Congressman Ed Towns; Politician, diplomat, activist and pastor Andrew Young; Bishop T.D. Jakes; and comedian, television host and author Steve Harvey.
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7 Ways To Make The Grade - A Living Guide to Your Communitys Success

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7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success by Doctor Bob Lee is a motivational inspirational self-help book written to advise and guide young people in their quest to make the grade and become successful in their journey through life. You will journey with the author through his childhood as he relates to his loving parents and his brothers and sisters while growing up in one of the many concrete jungles dropped into urban New York's ghettos. The Queensboro housing projects and the thousands of housing project throughout the country are to this day habitats, where only the strong-willed can survive. It was instilled in young Bob Lee that he would be one of the survivors, a leader, a teacher and a role model to all who would listen...and it worked. His father's words and his concern for Bob's well-being were the main contributors that helped shape him into the man he is today.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success traverses through a community of people: family members, friends, teachers and mentors who took an interest in Bob during his youth and throughout his adulthood. With the safety net provided by this village, a spiritual connection and the moral values instilled in him, Bob Lee was determined to build a like network for all the young people he could reach who grew up in similar surroundings. In 1986, he founded Bob Lee Enterprises, an Entertainment company, with the help of another radio personality, "Morning Man Ken Spider Webb" In 2004, Bob Lee's dream of forming an educational foundation was born, "Make the Grade Foundation for Education". He wanted the name of the foundation to be meaningful and to support the key components that could serve and strengthen communities by forming a collaboration between parents, teachers, students, community, clergy, health care and financial literacy professionals'.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is clearly, a major part of Bob Lee's thinking, as he continues to try to help other people get what they need out of life. By linking a book up to Make the Grade Foundation, he believes that he can reach the masses and locate other leaders to teach the youth to do as he is doing by building a unified movement for the betterment of the communities throughout the country.

In addition to the trials and tribulations of a child growing up in the largest housing complex in North America, Queensbridge Houses, which is a 3,142-unit complex owned by the New York City Housing Authority and his plight on becoming Doctor Bob Lee, there are numerous narrations about the benefits provided by the key components of Bob's collaboration. For instance, Bob touches on relationships between parents and their children, financial literacy, eating healthy, childhood obesity, scholarships, religion in schools, healthy minds and more.

7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is a multi-faceted book. The Foreword by NAACP Image Award Winning Publisher and Author, Tony Rose opens up the dialogue with an intriguing recollection of his childhood entitled, "Innovation is How I Survived and How I made the Grade." A bonus chapter, Distinguished Insight, is full of advice and life experiences from a diverse group of internationally renowned persons, including: Tuskegee Airman Doctor Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.; renowned actress Irene Cara; educator/philanthropist Samuel P. Peabody; newspaper publisher (Harlem News), Pat Stevenson; Former Congressman Ed Towns; Politician, diplomat, activist and pastor Andrew Young; Bishop T.D. Jakes; and comedian, television host and author Steve Harvey.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158044762
Publisher: Bob Lee Enterprisees
Publication date: 10/15/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 505 KB

About the Author

Author, Bob Lee, also known as Doctor Bob Lee, began his career in 1979 after receiving his BA and MA in Communications from New York Institute of Technology, where he was a DJ for 88.7 WTNY Radio. Lee later advanced to music director, program director and eventually general manager of WTNY Radio. From 1986 to 1994, Lee was a DJ on the weekend edition of WBLS’s renowned program The Quiet Storm, and for several years provided live reports on the morning show from various WBLS-sponsored community events. Every Monday through Friday on WBLS the “Doctor” spins today’s R&B and classic soul from midnight until 5 a.m. In addition to his on-air roles, Lee is the community affairs director for WBLS. As part of his community-based work, Lee has developed strong ties to many local and national politicians and public figures.

As part of Senator Hillary Clinton's 911 initiative /Commission, Lee participated in a phone conference every other week on how to better serve the community during an emergency. Lee was also a panelist and speaker for a Healing our Community, "My Brother’s Keeper initiative”, which is President Barack Obama’s multimillion-dollar initiative to boost young minority men and boys.

Among his other activities, Lee is a founder and board member of the Make the Grade Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provides mentoring and aid to school children. He has received numerous awards from mayors, borough presidents, city council members, senators, and assemblymen, as well as proclamations from organizations and schools in the tri-state area. 7 Ways to Make the Grade – A Living Guide to Your Community’s Success is his first published book.
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