7 Ways to Make the Grade - A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is a motivational inspirational self-help book written to advise and guide young people in their quest to make the grade and become successful in their journey through life. You will journey with the author through his childhood as he relates to his loving parents and his brothers and sisters while growing up in one of the many concrete jungles dropped into urban New York's ghettos. The Queensboro housing projects and the thousands of housing project throughout the country are to this day habitats, where only the strong-willed can survive. It was instilled in young Bob Lee that he would be one of the survivors, a leader, a teacher and a role model to all who would listen...and it worked. His father's words and his concern for Bob's well-being were the main contributors that helped shape him into the man he is today.
7 Ways to Make the Grade - A Living Guide to Your Community's Success traverses through a community of people: family members, friends, teachers and mentors who took an interest in Bob during his youth and throughout his adulthood. With the safety net provided by this village, a spiritual connection and the moral values instilled in him, Bob Lee was determined to build a like network for all the young people he could reach who grew up in similar surroundings. In 1986, he founded Bob Lee Enterprises, an Entertainment company, with the help of another radio personality, "Morning Man Ken Spider Webb" In 2004, Bob Lee's dream of forming an educational foundation was born, "Make the Grade Foundation for Education". He wanted the name of the foundation to be meaningful and to support the key components that could serve and strengthen communities by forming a collaboration between parents, teachers, students, community, clergy, health care and financial literacy professionals.
7 Ways to Make the Grade - A Living Guide to Your Community's Success is clearly, a major part of Bob Lee's thinking, as he continues to try to help other people get what they need out of life. By linking a book up to Make the Grade Foundation, he believes that he can reach the masses and locate other leaders to teach the youth to do as he is doing by building a unified movement for the betterment of the communities throughout the country.
In addition to the trials and tribulations of a child growing up in the largest housing complex in North America, Queensbridge Houses, which is a 3,142-unit complex owned by the New York City Housing Authority and his plight on becoming Doctor Bob Lee, there are numerous narrations about the benefits provided by the key components of Bob's collaboration. For instance, Bob touches on relationships between parents and their children, financial literacy, eating healthy, childhood obesity, scholarships, religion in schools, healthy minds and more.
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Author Biography:
Bob Lee, also known as Doctor Bob Lee, began his career in 1979 after receiving his BA and MA in Communications from New York Institute of Technology, where he was a DJ for 88.7 WTNY Radio. Lee later advanced to music director, program director and eventually general manager of WTNY Radio. In 1980, Lee joined WBLS for a one-year internship before moving on to KISS-FM for his start in commercial broadcasting. He thereafter returned to WBLS where he has had a rich and diverse career. From 1986 to 1994, Lee was a DJ on the weekend edition of WBLS's renowned program The Quiet Storm, and for several years provided live reports on the morning show from various WBLS-sponsored community events. Every Monday through Friday on WBLS the "Doctor" spins today's R&B and classic soul from midnight until 5 a.m. Lee has interviewed such musical greats as Stevie Wonder, Patti LaBelle, Luther Vandross, Jaheim, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Kenny "Baby Face" Edmonds, the O'Jays, Wynton Marsalis, Whitney Houston, P. Diddy, and Jill Scott, among many others. He can also be heard on air every day with his Daily Dose series tackling health issues that affect the community. In addition to his on-air roles, Lee is the community affairs director for WBLS. As part of his community-based work, Lee has developed strong ties to many local and national politicians and public figures, including former President Clinton, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former New York Mayor David Dinkins, and former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión. As part of Senator Hillary Clinton's 911 initiative /Commission, Lee participated in a phone conference every other week on how to better serve the community during an emergency. Lee was also a panelist and speaker for a Healing our Community, "My Brother's Keeper initiative", which is President Barack Obama's multimillion-dollar initiative to boost young minority men and boys. Lee hosts the weekly live television program Open, which broadcasts on BronxNet, a cable television station serving the Bronx and upper Manhattan. The program features news and topics affecting the Bronx community and also treats viewers to new and established musical guests. Lee also appears frequently in the Harlem community as the host of live music and other events, such as Harlem Summer Stage and classic soul programs at the Apollo Theater featuring Regina Belle and Jeffrey Osborne. In addition, his strong ties to the community are reflected in his many charitable endeavors. He is involved in corporate speaking and promotional work for businesses with an interest in the welfare of the community. Lee also helps college students interested in radio careers by serving as a mentor for Table for Two, a weekly music program that broadcasts from WLIU 88.1 FM radio in Brooklyn and is staffed by interns from Long Island University. Among his other activities, Lee is a founder and board member of the Make the Grade Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provides mentoring and aid to school children. He has received numerous awards from mayors, borough presidents, city council members, senators, and assemblymen, as well as proclamations from organizations and schools in the tri-state area. You Can Make the Grade is his first published book. Learn more about Doctor Bob Lee online at DoctorBobLee.com and WBLS.com. For further information about Make the Grade Foundation or to purchase Books for your organization in bulk, email: BobLee@makethegrade.org or bobleewbls@gmail.com
