Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Developing self- sufficiency: Creating self- sufficiency through training -- Blazing a path through sports -- Overcoming challenges to achieve self- sufficiency -- Gaining self- sufficiency while helping others -- Implementing self- sufficiency in your own life -- Capitalizing on opportunity: Capitalizing on opportunity in Niger -- Seizing good fortune -- Building a different kind of business -- Overcoming Naysayers -- Capitalizing on opportunity in your own life -- Building community: Building community in India -- Building community everywhere -- Joining forces in the business world -- Creating an Advisory board community -- Building community in your own life -- Protecting the environment through action and policy: Providing clean water in Mozambique -- protecting the environment through corporate leadership -- Saving the environment one plate at a time -- Building for the future -- Safeguarding the environment in your own life -- Addressing discrimination: Overcoming discrimination through literacy -- Addressing Discrimination through corporate leadership -- Learning to capitalize on the differences -- Overcoming bias in the legal profession -- Addressing discrimination in your own life.

"In Leading with Care, management expert Mary Cantando examines the stories of trailblazing women in the developing world who, with help from the nonprofit organization CARE, have capitalized on personal and professional opportunities on the road to establishing self-sufficiency. As their stories reveal, through CARE, women around the world have overcome adversity co build new businesses, improve their health, prioritize education, and foster change in their communities."--BOOK JACKET.