The Famdo Way

The FAMDO Way: A Social Entrepreneur's Faithfulness offers a revolutionary approach to financial empowerment for the Black community. Author Don M. Franco shares his proactive plan where African Americans leverage their collective spending power to build better communities, strengthen their youth, monitor mainstream media and corporations, and secure a brighter future for all African Americans."Don Franco's voice is powerful and poignant. Don't miss his book, The FAMDO Way: A Social Entrepreneur's Faithfulness!"- Dr. Cornel West, Professor, Princeton University"Don Franco speaks with a pure heart. His message of economic empowerment is one that's often mentioned but rarely detailed, explored and explained. Franco does that in The FAMDO Way: A Social Entrepreneur's Faithfulness, and everyonewho reads it is better and smarter for it.''- Chris Broussard, Senior Writer, ESPN The Magazine"I commend Don for writing this important book on economic development in the Black community. While the country is experiencing a 10 percent unemployment rate, for Black men, the rate is nearly 40 percent. No one is going to address thisissue but us."- Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, Author, Reducing the Black Male Dropout Rate"Don Franco has designed a necessary and vital plan to revitalize the minds and pocketbooks of Black communities in America. Like an architect, he laid a solid foundation upon which the Black community can build empires collectively."- Cathleen Williams, RN, Esq., TV Talk Show Host, I'm Just Saying!Read an excerpt at: www.famdo.com
About the Author: Don Franco is, in many ways, an American success story. The product of a broken family, he was raised in the type of impoverishment that hinders and destroys the promise of so many potentially productive African-American youth. Yet instead of becoming another casualty of the inner city, Don overcame to become a college graduate, a successful businessman and a happily married man for 25 years. Don was raised in Linden, NJ. His parents separated when he was one, leaving his mother to raise him and his older sister in a one-bedroom apartment. Though his mom did an admirable job of providing Don with a strong sense of values, Don could not escape the emotional pain of growing up fatherless and poor. Like many youngsters stuck in a complex situation, Don many times felt inadequate. Nonetheless, his mother's emphasis on education paid off, and Don became an honor society student. He also was a star basketball player, earning a scholarship to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia and later finishing his high school career at Linden High School as New Jersey's "Player of the Year." Don attended Virginia Commonwealth University, the recipient of a four year basketball scholarship. While Don's college basketball career was not as successful as he had hoped, he did graduate from college with a business degree. During his time in college, he also married his best friend and love, Twyla. The couple now lives in New Jersey with their four children. Armed with ambition and a college education, Don became an award-winning pharmaceutical salesman. He has worked with some of the most valued companies in the world through various sales, marketing and training positions. Don is now looking to use his life experiences along with his business skills to provide empowerment to the African-American community.