East Bay Children's Book Project

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This is the last week to get books before the winter break. We will be open Tuesday, December 27th & Thursday, December 19th from 3:30 to 6. Have a happy holiday and we will see you in January. We will reopen Tuesday, January 7th.

It is hard to believe but the East Bay Children’s Book Project is still alive and thriving. We are getting ready to celebrate another milestone; 2 million donated books now in the hands and hearts of children in need.

These days, it’s not hard to imagine schools without libraries or homes without books. Financial cuts to schools and non-profit organizations, which serve children in need, are suffering.

Since opening in 2005, the East Bay Children’s Book Project has worked to help provide books to schools and other organizations, which directly serve children. Since 2005, we have distributed ALMOST TWO MILLION BOOKS. We urge teachers, caregivers, and others who work professionally with these children to give the books directly to the children. Books are frequently given to young people as an incentive to remain in a school or program.

The EBCBP has accomplished this mission through the kindness and generosity of others; Half-Price Books, bins at community sites and retail locations, privately sponsored book drives, as well as book publishers and distributors. Our only revenue is from private donations and small grants. Expenses include rent, supplies used to store and display books, and the materials cost to build collection bins. There are NO salaries.

While we have a constant supply of books, we have never been able to adequately cover the need for easy read, board, and bilingual books.
Won’t you help? If each of you were to donate even a small amount to the East Bay Children’s Book Project before the end of the year, we could purchase the books our clients need.

We are a 501(c)(3) organization, so your donation is 100% tax deductible. You can make your gift by mail, securely onlineor through our website.

We should have some amazing books for you in December.

SAVE THE DATES: February 25th & 27th

2 million book celebration.

We only need 25,000 more books to reach this milestone and we are getting ready:

• We just ordered $5000 of new books
• We have several boxes of Dr. Seuss books ready to share
• We saved a very nice donation of multicultural books from NCIBA

All these books will be given away that week!

We can use some help on a fun event. Books Inc in Alameda is doing a fundraiser for us on Sunday, December 15th. They want us to help wrap books and keep all the tips. We need some gift wrappers to spend 2 hours in Alameda. Books Inc has been a major supporter and donated more that 15,000 books to us. Please let me know if you can spare a few hours and I will schedule you in. We would also welcome help from teenagers who enjoy books..

To visit us, look for the purple door with our name on it.
It is on Harrison Street, just beyond Westlake Middle School.
We share the parking lot with First Congregational Church and the school.

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