Joey Livingston (wife of Shuan Livingston) arrived at the book project in September bearing gifts; 250 brand new multicultural and bi-lingual books. She stayed and visited with volunteers and clients. Now she has written a great blog post explaining her love of books and passion for literacy. Thank you, Joey, for your passion and support.
Please support Half Price Books this weekend
September 4, 2018 By
Please support Half Price Books. They have donated more than one million books to us. Now they are raising money to help support our mission. Half Price Books is pleased to support local literacy organizations during National Literacy Month. This year HPB has several ways to support our literacy partners across the country. We hope […]
We are currently closed for summer vacation
June 8, 2018 By
Our last day for book giveaway was May 31st. We had over 60 very happy clients and gave away almost 6000 books. We will reopen for book giveaway on Tuesday, August 7th, one week before the Oakland schools reopen. We will be working all summer, Thursday mornings, from 10 AM to 1 PM counting and […]
College Ave. Support for EBCBP
April 9, 2018 By
Berkeley Playhouse, housed in the beautiful Julia Morgan building on College Ave, is partnering with us again. Their new show is a magical production of “James and the Giant Peach.“ Just type in BOOK25 to get discount tickets. Elmwood Cafe at the corner of College and Russell has chosen us as one of their community […]