To make a book donation request, please contact Deidre Huntington at
dhuntington@publishers.org
Book Donation Initiatives for AAP Members
The BIG Book Club
Amachi Texas and Big Brothers Big Sisters
Amachi Texas is a statewide joint initiative in partnership with the Office of the Governor, Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Education Agency, OneStar Foundation and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Texas.
Amachi Texas serves “invisible children” who have a family member incarcerated or on parole or probation by matching them with a safe, caring adult in a one-to-one mentoring relationship. For most children it is their first exposure to a loving, stable, and productive atmosphere.
Amachi Texas’ BIG Book Club is designed to encourage Bigs and Littles across the state to read together and, as a result, positively enhance their relationship, establish a lifelong love for reading, and improve the Little’s academic scores. By donating, The BIG Book Club can provide books to matches and for group reads, create discussion questions for the books, and plan activities to celebrate reading.
If you are able to donate please contact:
Shelby Rhoten
phone: 972.573.2378
Reader To Reader, Inc. Book Donations for U.S. Schools
Reader To Reader, Inc., an award-winning 501(c)(3) public charity is dedicated to bringing books, free of charge, to needy school libraries around the United States. The organization serves over 200 of the nation's poorest public schools and colleges and spans grades pre-k through college.
With 60% of underprivileged children not owning even a single book, a well-stocked school library is a critical resource hub that is a necessity not a luxury. Among the communities served are schools in the nation's poorest communities, including inner-city schools, Native American Reservations, and poor rural towns. Publisher's surplus books represent an invaluable resource for poor communities where there is literally no budget at all for book acquisition, and the librarians struggle to keep their time-worn books in readable condition.
Please contact:
David Mazor, Executive Director
Reader To Reader, Inc.
24 Mt. View Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
phone: 413-256-8595dmazor@readertoreader.org
www.readertoreader.org
Donations are tax-deductible
Michigan Friends of Education
Michigan Friends of Education is an affiliate of the Library of Michigan and works toward a better tomorrow by increasing the academic achievements and reading skills of children and needy adults in Michigan. The program rescues beautiful, usable books and materials from being destroyed by soliciting donations from publishers and distributors who have overstocked or outdated inventory. These books are then provided at no cost to a wide variety of social organizations that serve the needy. This includes disadvantaged readers, the ill, the incarcerated, senior citizens, and the handicapped. Michigan Friends of Education serves an estimated 855,000 people.
By donating books, magazines, craft supplies, and literary enhancing items, Michigan Friends of Education works as a cooperative network to qualified social organizations on an equal per-capita basis as opposed to first come, first served.
If you are able to donate, please contact:
Kitty Gailey or Suzi Schroeder
Michigan Friends of Education (MFE)
P.O. Box 183
171 Kuhn Street
Gregory, MI 48137
phone: (743) 498-3003 or 1-800-846-8876
The Literacy Imperative, Inc. Providing books and other tools of literacy to America's underserved communities
The Literacy Imperative (TLI) is a national faith-based organization addressing low literacy in America’s underserved communities. The lack of books in these communities and the lack of libraries in the homes of low-income families contribute to low literacy and are major concerns of TLI.
Under its Family Library initiative, TLI and corporate sponsors provide libraries to low-income families at no cost. According to reports from the National Institute for Literacy, over 60% of these families have no books at all in their homes. In October 2004, TLI began providing libraries to low-income families under a pilot project with Knoxville Habitat for Humanity. The national expansion of this pilot project will place books in the homes of thousands of low-income families.
TLI is looking for publishers willing to provide surplus books that will be distributed to underserved communities and low-income families in 2005 and 2006 through the Center of Literacy & Enterprise model and Family Library pilot project initiatives.
If you are able to donate please contact:
John A. Sibley, President
The Literacy Imperative, Inc.
201 Harriet Tubman Street
Knoxville, TN 37915
phone: 865.673.8988
fax: 865.546.2668
jsibleytli@comcast.net
Big Sunday
Big Sunday is the largest community service weekend in the United States. From May 3-4, 2008, more than 50,000 people will work on over 200 community projects in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Big Sunday is driven by the belief that everyone has something to give – no matter who you are, where you live, how much money you have, what you do or which ethnicity or religion you happen to be.
Big Sunday is looking for donations of new and used Children's books.
Big Sunday will sort the collected books and then donate them to the 5 – 8 public schools in the Los Angeles/Orange County area identified as having the greatest need. New books are especially important as they seek to fill the shelves of these school libraries and supplement their classroom book collections.
Donations can be mailed to:
BIG SUNDAY
ATTN: Jennifer DeVore
Temple Israel of Hollywood
7300 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
or contact Jennifer DeVore:
(323) 962- 2499
(213) 308- 7262
With Wings & a Halo
Providing books to children of all ages during an emergency/crisis situation
"With Wings & a Halo" is currently seeking donations of childrens' books for ages toddler to pre-teen. The books will be included in packets to be distributed by local police and emergency medical volunteers to children during a crisis situation.
The purpose of "With Wings and a Halo - R.E.A.C.H. a Child" is to reach out to children across America that find themselves in a crisis situation, whether they are being treated in a Children's Hospital, a Natural Disaster Area Shelter or children who are temporarily homeless or in distress.
If you are able to donate books please contact:
Paul S. Gilbertson-Co-Founder
Chris A. Gilbertson-Co-Founder
407 Augusta Drive
Waunakee, WI 53597
phone: (866) 992-6324
The Interfaith Caregiver Volunteer Program
The Interfaith Caregiver Volunteer Program is a grassroots program whose mission is to help the homebound and frail elderly remain in their own home as long as possible. In its ninth year, the program provides home visits, assistance to those with poor vision, escorts to medical and other needed appointments, shopping assistance, and telephone reassurance. The program is not funded by any City, State, or Corporate entity and depends solely on donations and fundraising. The program is in need of a well-rounded selection of books including Mystery, Fiction, Non-fiction, Biographies and Autobiographies, History, Romance, Science Fiction, Children’s, Religious, How-To and Self-Help books. If you are able to donate please contact:
Grace Bova
Project Director
Interfaith Caregivers
2975 Independence Avenue
Bronx, NY 10463
phone: (718) 548-1700 x477
Robert F. Wagner Middle School
The office of New York City Council Member Dan Garodnick is holding a book drive for Robert F. Wagner Middle School, located in New York City. Wagner Middle School is a large, ethnically diverse school of 1,300 students, 35 percent of whom receive free lunch. The new school library is in need of books for 4th through 12th grade reading levels, with a particular emphasis on 6th through 8th grade-level. Fiction and nonfiction are welcome. If you are able to donate books please contact:
Office of Council Member Garodnick
Attn: Brian Goldberg or Dan Pasquini
211 East 43rd St.
New York, NY 10017
phone: 212- 818-0580
garodbookdrive@gmail.com
Christian City
Christian City is a 40 year old, non-profit, charitable organization, which provides homes, healthcare and supportive services to 1,100 seniors and children at its campus in Union City, Georgia. In the pursuit of providing quality services to its residents, the organization has built a new library and reading area that can house thousands of volumes. Christian City welcomes book donations of any kind but is especially interested in items for the visually impaired community. If you are able to donate books please contact:
Christopher Loga, ADC
Christian City
7300 Lester Road
Union City, GA 30291
phone: 770-964-3301
fax: 770-964-7041
chrisl@christian-city.org
Coalition for Community Schools
The Coalition for Community Schools is an alliance of national, state and local organizations in education K-16, youth development, community planning and development, family support, health and human services, government and philanthropy as well as national, state and local community school networks. The Coalition advocates for community schools as the vehicle for strengthening schools, families and communities so that together they can improve student learning.
The goal of Community Schools is to address the multiple needs of children by recognizing that learning is influenced by ongoing experiences within families, schools, community-based organizations, as well as meeting the basic physical, mental and emotional needs of young people and their families.
Roosevelt Elementary School is an inner city school serving low income families in the Allentown School District of Pennsylvania. Coalition for Community Schools is looking for book donations that will go towards a books event which will enable reading outside of school, particularly during the summer.
If you are able to donate books, please contact:
Tania Vargas
Community School Coordinator
Roosevelt Elementary
phone: 484-765-4468
vargast@allentownsd.org
The Asia Foundation
Donating excess stock to Books for Asia
Books for Asia is currently seeking donations of excess stock from publishers. Created in 1954, Books for Asia has distributed more than 40 million books and materials to more than 50,000 institutions in 40 countries. The program is currently seeking donations of all types, including K-12, higher education and professional, technical and vocational books, for schools and libraries throughout the Asia-Pacific.
To donate books: identify excess stock, provide an offer list to Books for Asia, and send the requested books to the warehouse in California. For more information please visit the website at http://www.asiafoundation.org/Books/donating.html
or contact:
Gavin Tritt
Director of Books for Asia
phone: (510) 667-6476
gtritt@asiafound.org.