Rothschild is also the Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Twin Cities RISE! , an anti-poverty organization that provides employers with skilled workers, primarily men from communities of color in the Twin Cities area, by training under- and unemployed adults for skilled jobs that pay a living wage. He is also an ASHOKA fellow.

Rothschild is also A Director of the Greater Twin Cities United Way, an Advisory Board member of the Hubert H Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and a Director of American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio.

Steve is the author of The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success,(Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint) publishing in February, 2012. (steverothschild.org)

Formerly, Rothschild was an Executive Vice President of General Mills, Inc., where his responsibilities included International Food Operations, various domestic divisions, and new business activities of the company. Earlier in his career at General Mills, he launched Yoplait, USA, a yogurt company, and was its first president. He earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Victor returned to the U.S. at the age of 20. He began to feel the old frustration and rage return as he once again witnessed the disregard toward poor and uneducated people and toward the Mexicans. Then a chance encounter with James Joyce’s Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man, changed Victor’s life. It awakened a desire to confront through literature the problems associated with his cultural heritage that continued to plague him.

After producing 9 novels, 65 short stories, and receiving 265 rejections, Villaseñor sold his first novel, Macho!, which the Los Angeles Times compared to the best of John Steinbeck. This began a journey that would eventually lead to the publication of the national bestseller Rain of Gold. Used by thousands of teachers and school systems across the nation as required reading, Rain of Gold tells the story of Victor’s family, taking the reader from war-torn Mexico during the Revolution of 1910 to the present day.

Villaseñor’s body of works includes a number of nonfiction books, all used in schools throughout the country: The first family trilogy Wild Steps of Heaven, Rain of Gold, and Thirteen Sense; the second family trilogy Burro Genius, Crazy Loco Love, and Beyond Rain of Gold. Other books: Jury: The People vs Juan Corona; Macho!; Lion Eyes, and Walking Stars, nine short stories written especially to inspire youth. And a collection of children’s books, written for ages 2 to 200, each teach an important life lesson: The Frog and His Friends Save Humanity; Goodnight, Papito Dios; Little Crow to the Rescue; Mother Fox and Mr. Coyote; and The Stranger and the Red Rooster. The screenplay for The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, starring Edward James Olmos, was also written by Victor.

An upcoming HBO miniseries will be on Rain of Gold, and Thirteen Senses with Maya Pictures, Producer.

Villaseñor’s acclaimed written works, as well as his inspiring lectures, have earned him numerous awards and endorsements, including the Founding John Steinbeck Chair appointment.

A gifted and accomplished speaker, Victor Villaseñor, in his candid and heartfelt manner, brings a fresh perspective to a number of universal themes, including pride in cultural heritage, the strength of family, dedication to education and personal achievement, the power of the written word, world harmony and peace.

Villaseñor’s commitment to world harmony and peace is demonstrated through Snow Goose Global Thanksgiving, his nonprofit organization established to promote peace and harmony throughout the world. His self-published book, Snow Goose Global Thanksgiving, describes a simple philosophy that it’s time in human story for women and children to start leading, with men ‘following in front’. Villaseñor’s motto has become “We are all one race. The human race!”

Victor Villaseñor continues to live on the ranch where he was raised.
www.victorvillasenor.com

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The Award was granted to Marilyn Tam as author of LIVING THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS, on Saturday evening, August 20, 2011 in the category of inspirational/visionary non-fiction. The book was also nominated in the categories of self help non-fiction and psychology non-fiction. When informed of the award , Waterside Press Publisher, William Gladstone commented,” Marilyn deserves this award. Living the Life of Your Dreams was written as a way for Marilyn to share with others the secrets that have enabled her to not only live the life of her dreams but to help millions of people in their life journeys.”

Mr. Gladstone additionally stated,”Waterside has been at the forefront of many developments in book publishing and we are heartened that Waterside Press’ focus on immediate time to market for short as well as full length books is now available to our clients. The world of book publishing is changing rapidly and authors, agents and publishers need to offer multiple rapid venues for publishing their works. To win an award with our very first publication is gratifying and indicates that our new rapid to market publishing model will be successful for authors and their readers.”

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Who makes money on non-fiction any more?

The truth is, there’s a new information product BOOM going on right now on the Internet. And authors who package their information in the right ways are able to make huge profits from their work. It’s important to understand that nowadays, the book is not the only way, or even the most important way to package your information. Imagine if you could take the same information you would use to write a fourteen dollar book — and produce a product that fetches two hundred dollars!

That’s what the new information boom is all about — packaging instructional information in ways that go “beyond the book.” Online courses, webinars, teleseminar series, live webcasts, group coaching…these are the new ways of packaging information — and the income potential is greater than ever before.

Let’s look at some numbers. In the old days, if you packaged your information as a book, you might get $1 to $3 per book sold as the author. If you sold 10,000 copies, you might make $30,000 at best.

If you were to package the information in a video course, you might be able to sell that product for $99 online. If you sold only 1000 courses, your income potential is almost $100,000. Subtract anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 for the production and delivery systems and another HALF as payouts to your sales partners…and you’re still way ahead of the old model at more than $40,000 profit. And you can still write and publish that book as essential reading for your course participants!

Of course, this is just a hypothetical example, but the point is clear: How you package and deliver your content has changed and new opportunities have opened up for authors that make this a boom time for information products and savvy authors.

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