On frank lin in washington about the relationship between Benjamin Franklin and george washington. Watch book tv this week and every weekend here on cspan2. Robert and eileen are here with us today. She recently retired as director of corporate social innovations and president of thef caterpillr foundation. With philanthropic arm of this manufacturing giant, caterpillar inc. In addition to the 30 year career holding various leadership positions at the company, she recently helped transfer form the foundation into one of the worlds most influential corporatel foundations and launch a collaborative platform that together stronger a catalyst for prosperity, unites businesses, nonprofits, government, and citizens to combine their strength to alleviate povertys for millions of people worldwide. Please give a warm savannah welcome to michele sullivan. [applause]. Michele thank you so much and and thank you so much to this fabulous event. And savannah, my first time here i absolutely love it
Hello, everyone thanks for joining us this morning. Are we rolling . Hopefully. I havent seen them. Good morning everyone. On behalf of the virginia humanities which produces the festival of books, id like to welcome you all to the contemporary portrayals. We have a couple of quick notes to get through pertaining to this event, so first we want to thank the city of charles bell as a sponsor for this conversation and for hosting us. This program is being broadcast on the citys government Access Channel on tv ten and streamed live on the Facebook Page so if anyone is listening or watching at home and wants to see it on facebook is Charlottesville City Hall is the handle. Because this is a recorded event, during the q a portion of the event, please raise your hand and a volunteer will come to you and give you a microphone before you ask your question. So, a couple more logistical issues. Please silence your cell phone at this point in time. However, we encourage you to tweet about the eve
To get through pertaining to this event, so first we want to thank the city of charles bell as a sponsor for this conversation and for hosting us. This program is being broadcast on the citys government Access Channel on tv ten and streamed live on the Facebook Page so if anyone is listening or watching at home and wants to see it on facebook is Charlottesville City Hall is the handle. Because this is a recorded event, during the q a portion of the event, please raise your hand and a volunteer will come to you and give you a microphone before you ask your question. So, a couple more logistical issues. Please silence your cell phone at this point in time. However, we encourage you to tweet about the event using the hash tag vabook2018. So by all means, take the lessons youve received from the authors here and share them with people. You should have received program evaluations. Fill these out before you leave, please. They will be useful to help keep the festival free and open to the pu
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Of its collaborative impact platform known as together stronger. I catalyst for shared prosperity unites businesses, nonprofits, government and citizens to combineti this strength to alleviate poverty for millions of people p worldwide. Please give a warm savannah welcome to michele sullivan. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you to savanna book festival for the fabulous event. My first time here, i absolutely love it. Ill definitely return. I also love the weather. When i left home yesterday, it was minus eight in illinois. I deeply appreciate the 60 some degrees weather today. [laughter] i also thank you for your time today. Take it home and treated like its everybody else. Thats advice that my parents said five decades ago. The day i was born. This is after he discovered i had a type of dwarfism which a few years later, they found out was a very rare type of dwarfism. I like to think my parents would have done that anyway, take me home and treat me like everybody else but the affi