Why host a Community or Corporate Book Drive with Better World Books?
A community or corporate book drive allows community members or employees to donate their gently used books to raise money for a wonderful cause—literacy. Our program is easy to implement, costs nothing, adaptable to any size community or workforce, and driven by results.
Help generate funding for a non-profit literacy initiative—start collecting books today!
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Which non-profit literacy partners does Better World Books work with?
Our literacy partners are credible, well-established, non-profit organizations with proven operating backgrounds. Our four main partners are Books For Africa (www.booksforafrica.org), Room To Read (www.roomtoread.org), the National Center for Family Literacy (www.famlit.org), and Worldfund (www.worldfund.org). Aside from truckloads of books, we have donated/pledged more than $2.8 million to our non-profit literacy partners.
If your organization does have a charitable, literacy-oriented Foundation or has a working relationship with a local, regional or national non-profit literacy organization, your organization may designate that organization as the beneficiary of the Community or Corporate Book Drive.
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What are the responsibilities of our Organization?
Since you know how to motivate your volunteers or employees better than we do, we ask that you make a concerted effort to promote the drive. This includes designing/printing marketing materials to promote the drive. At the conclusion of the drive, volunteers pack the acceptable materials collected for shipment to Better World Books.
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What supplies and support does Better World Books provide?
Better World Books makes it easy and convenient to run a Community or Corporate Book Drive. At no cost, we provide collection boxes and shipping cartons. We also have a very dedicated and knowledgable Support Team who can assist with shipping the books to us.
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What type of books/materials should we collect for the drive?
We do have a few general guidelines in regards to the type of materials we accept. Please view the Acceptance Guidelines Document for the detailed list of material. We can also enable you to check whether or not the books you will be sending are ideal for selling online. Please ask for more details when contacting us.
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Wow! How do we get started?
Simply send an e-mail with your contact information, including phone number, to Bookdrive@betterworldbooks.com. Thank you for your interest in Better World Books.
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