Collect Children's Books to Give to Shelters and Classroom Libraries

What: 80% of child care centers serving low-income children lack age-appropriate books and 60% of underprivileged children do not own a single book.

How:

Determine what type of books you want to collect and what age group you are targeting.
Ask your friends to clean off their book shelves.
Set up a drop off location(s). You can ask local stores or restaurants if they want to drive traffic to their establishment. Give them an XL tall cardboard box for the collection with plenty of signage on it.

Where: Donate to a local Title 1 School or directly to a teacher for their classroom. Elementary school books are the most needed in schools because K-5 teachers have classrooms where the children borrow the books.

You can ask local shelters if they have a library for children and see if they are in need of higher level reading books. Chapman Partnership accepts books and educational toys for their Family Resource Center.

OPTIONAL: We made fun and inspirational bookmarks to be donated with the books.