Don Eberly

John Bridgeland, former assistant to the President of the United States, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and director of the USA Freedom Corps
"Building Nations from the Bottom Up is a brilliant book that captures a growing movement transcending national, cultural, and ideological differences. The spirit of volunteerism and the mobilization of civil society, once thought unique to America, are spreading throughout the world. This is a hopeful sign for war-torn nations and for countries with high rates of poverty and disease. It is also a hopeful sign for America, whose greatest export is its compassion. No one in America is better positioned to tell this story than Don Eberly, who has worked both in the trenches in communities around the world and at the highest levels of our government."

Hernando De Soto, author of The Mystery of Capital
"If you ever doubted that the United States has an important role to play in world development--or wondered what that role might be and whether it is worth pursuing--read this book. Eberly argues, clearly and persuasively, that the world's biggest constituency for the `American values' of the market, the rule of law, and democracy are the poor of the developing world--four billion potential partners in their own development."