Macaroni and Cheese Manifesto [Paperback]

Steven H. Biondolillo (Author)

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Publication Date: August 20, 2009

Biondolillo’s inspirational poems range in subject from the magic of city playgrounds and realities of elite athletics to heartbreaking current events and transcendent ancient and biblical conflicts. Praise for his work: “…the messages are universal and the poems world class!”—Jack Falvey, MakingTheNumbers.com. “Steven’s rare combination of sensitivity, intelligence, compassion and confidence immediately connects him with his audience…”—Nancy Silver, Royal Palms Resort and Spa. “Your message that ‘anything is possible’ is an important reminder in an age when people too often follow the beaten path…”—James McDonald, UBS Financial Services. “It is evident that you have been given a wonderful gift, and those who hear it with their hearts will profit from it.”—Pat Hughes, Fallon Community Health Plan. “Power, distinctiveness and self-containment; clarity and emotion; suffering, conflict, drama and meaning—spirit and beat in the blood of the street. This is what I offer you!” —Steven H. Biondolillo.

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About the Author

Steven H. Biondolillo is the president of Biondolillo Associates, Inc., a marketing and development consulting firm dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations build special-event fundraising programs. Biondolillo is widely recognized both for sparking the national renaissance in walkathons and for coining the term “signature event.” Additionally, he has developed what is regarded to be the nation’s premiere training program in the field of special-event fundraising. Since 1984, fundraisers developed by Biondolillo have raised over $750 million. Until 1982 Biondolillo was an elite freestyle wrestler and medalist in national and international competition. From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the coaching staff of Boston College’s NCAA Division I wrestling program. His op-ed pieces on amateur sports and child welfare have appeared in publications throughout the United States. Additionally, he has appeared on several national network and cable news programs, including NBC’s Today Show, Fox News and The O’Reilly Factor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 102 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (August 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439204209
• ISBN-13: 978-1439204207
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #820,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven H. Biondolillo is the founder and president of Biondolillo Associates, Inc., a marketing and development consulting firm dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations build special-event fundraising programs. Biondolillo is widely recognized both for sparking the national renaissance in "walkathons" and for coining the term "signature event." Additionally, he has developed what is regarded to be the nation's premiere training program in the field of special-event fundraising. Since 1984, fundraisers developed by Biondolillo have raised over $1 billion.

Biondolillo has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the College of Communication at Boston University, the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Emerson College, Babson College, the University of Massachusetts College of Management in Boston, the Kellogg-Recanati Graduate Arts Administration Program at Tel Aviv University, and the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Additionally, he has appeared on several national network and cable news programs, including NBC's Today Show, Fox News and The O'Reilly Factor.

Until 1982, Biondolillo was an elite freestyle wrestler and medalist in national and international competition. He was a member of the coaching staff of Boston College's NCAA Division I wrestling program, and served, for over a dozen years, on the board of directors of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Massachusetts Chapter. His op-ed pieces on amateur sports and child welfare have appeared in publications throughout the United States, including The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Miami Herald, Boston Herald, Boston Globe and Union Leader.

Biondolillo completed graduate work in English Literature at McGill University in Montreal and language studies at the University of Grenoble in France. He received his BA in English Language & Literature from Boston University (http://www.bu.edu/english/alumni/featured-alumni/steven-biondolillo/).

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paying It Forward in Words and Deed...What a Great Book, February 3, 2010

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Charlie Z (San Diego CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macaroni and Cheese Manifesto (Paperback)

This mix of essays, prose, and poetry will make you cheer for winners and losers alike. It will break your heart and make you smile. The works range in length from several pages to four short but incredibly profound lines in "Memo to Job," my personal favorite. Above all else this book will compel you to examine yourself, your world, and how you live in it. The author's introduction alone is a stirring tribute to the power of "paying it forward," as we follow the odyssey of a boy who first loses his father at age 6, then his mother 3 years later when she abdicates her responsibility to the state. He becomes a ward of the court through no fault of his own, spending the next 7 years of his life in the nation's oldest large-scale orphanage whose founder, Stephen Girard, "understood deeply that he was fathered not by a single individual, but by the thousands of human interactions that constitute life itself." Girard's legacy lives on in Mr. Biondolillo, who has indeed "gone the distance" and continues to do so, making the world a better place.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deep and direct, a subway train to the heart, November 8, 2009

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V Constantinopoulos - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macaroni and Cheese Manifesto (Paperback)

I grabbed this book as I left my house for the office thinking it would be good to read on the Underground. It's not good, it's phenomenal -- but it's not a good book to read on a subway ride. Why? Because my eyes kept welling up, that's why. Not just tears of sadness and sympathy, but also of delight and triumph against all odds. Impressions of the bag lady, the human cats on the mat, king Arthur, the boy, resonated beyond my tube journey. Biondolillo's poems are powerful, inspirational, and as deep AND direct as a subway tunnel.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spirit and Beat in the Blood of the Street!, November 3, 2009

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Emerson Wickwire (Memphis, TN-- Rock'n'Roll Music Capital) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macaroni and Cheese Manifesto (Paperback)

Spirit and beat in the blood of the street! I just finished my second reading of this collection of poems and still couldn't put the book down. Equal parts inspirational, reflective, and instructive... and entirely satisfying. Bravo! The reviewer who commented on the Introduction alone being well worth the price of the entire book, hit the nail on the head. Biondolillo is clearly a man who has paid his dues and wrestled with many of life's key issues. Highly recommended.