About the book

Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business, a new book by Nancy Lublin, founder of Dress for Success and the CEO of DoSomething.org, is the first book to show how not-for-profits get more done with less of just about everything. This book is a must-have for anyone running a Fortune 500 company or small business who wants to learn how to grow their business while spending zilch.

About Nancy Lublin

Author: Zilch -The Power of Zero in Business

Since August 2003, CEO and Chief Old Person Nancy Lublin has overseen the website dedicated to youth volunteering and activism Do Something’s growth and led the effort to begin awarding more grant money to young people who want to make a difference. She turned the organization from a debt-ridden, “old school” not-for-profit with offices in multiple cities nationwide, to a fast-moving Internet company capturing the attention of a generation of do-ers.

Nancy is deeply passionate about Do Something and the activist mission behind the organization. She says her first activist campaign was liberating the purple crayons in pre-school after one loud boy had declared them “not allowed for girls.”

Armed with a $5,000 inheritance from her immigrant great grandfather at the age of 23, Nancy founded the organization Dress for Success, which to this day provides women with interview suits, career development training, and boosts in their self-confidence in more than 70 cities in four countries.

Nancy was named to the World Economic Forum’s 100 Most Influential Young leaders (2007), one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of Worth (2006), received Fast Company’s Fast 50 Award (2002), and was named the NYC Women’s Commission Woman of the Year (2000).

Nancy graduated from Brown University, Oxford University (where she was a Marshall Scholar), and New York University School of Law.