Edmund Benson, Co-Founder of the Arise Foundation, Celebrates His 79th Birthday by Contributing Over 100 Life Management Books to the International Nonprofit Community
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Benson is now celebrating his 79th birthday by giving over 100 important books to the international nonprofit community by allowing them to be translated and used under a creative commons license free of charge.ARISE programs are also used in Canada, Jamaica, England, Australia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bosnia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia.ARISE recently started a remarkable new staff training workshop, called CHOICES: Drop It At The Door, aimed at stopping the “boomerang” effect of employees bringing stress and anger home from work and vice versa.The workshop’s training and resource manual teaches learners that the choice is theirs: stay angry and let stress and unhappiness infect every aspect of their lives, or chose a healthier path.Benson will allow the materials translated free of charge into any language except for Spanish, for use in life skills training programs around the world.Benson and his wife Susan created the nonprofit ARISE Foundation in 1986.