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The Book Thing ceased accepting new book donations, but continues to accept monetary donations via their website. Volunteers assisted with cleanup of books both for disposal and for distribution the following Saturday. [4] After a period of cash donations, fundraisers, and new books, the place was reopened in October 2017. [5]
The charity is supported by book donations from the UK publishing industry and all the books they send are brand new. [12] The charity's website also details a number of programmes designed to train librarians and teachers as well as to create and support school libraries. [13] These include: Inspiring Readers; Children's Corners
Better World Books donates one book to Feed the Children, Books for Africa, or smaller donation recipients for each book sold on BetterWorldBooks.com. [23] [24] Better World Books provides additional support to literacy non-profits, including: Books for Africa – which collects, ships and distributes books to African children. [1]
Access Books is a nonprofit volunteer organization that gives books to disadvantaged children's libraries in Southern California. These are primarily public and charter school libraries in the inner city, where over 90% of the population lives in poverty and books are generally scarce. [ 1 ]
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Uprise Books Project is a non-profit organization in the United States that provides banned books to underprivileged teenagers. It was founded in 2011. It is based in Vancouver, Washington. In November 2011, the organization raised USD $10,000 from a Kickstarter campaign.
Book Launch Award: The SCBWI Book Launch Award provides two annual awards of $2000 each for an author or illustrator to use for marketing a book scheduled for release during the next calendar year. The money can be used for any kind of promotional purpose that will increase sales and visibility of the book, such as launch events, speaking ...
Lumos, formerly known as Children's High Level Group and briefly as The Children's Voice, is an international non-governmental charity (NGO) founded by the author of the Harry Potter book series, J. K. Rowling. Lumos promotes an end to the institutionalisation of children worldwide.