- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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15 people are interested
Help Get Books into the Hands of Kids at The Children's Book Bank!
ORGANIZATION: The Children's Book Bank
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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15 people are interested
The book gap: For children in poverty, one of the biggest obstacles to literacy development, which begins at birth, is the scarcity of books in the home. While the ratio of books to children in middle-income neighborhoods is approximately 13 books per child in a household, the ratio in low-income neighborhoods is a mere 1 book per 300 families.
To learn to read, children need to be surrounded by books at home so that reading becomes a regular part of their lives!
The Children's Book Bank ( www.childrensbookbank.org) believes every child can learn to read. You can help support literacy in our community by volunteering to mend, clean, and organize the ~20,000 gently-used books collected during the Children’s Book Harvest. Book "mending" involves erasing scribbles, taping tears, removing stickers, etc. The project begins with a detailed training process on how to mend books, so volunteers should plan to be on time.
This volunteer opportunity takes place at an old Portland Public school building on NE Marine Drive and is ideal for detail oriented people age 15+ who love books! We welcome individual volunteers age 15+ as well as large groups. For more information, please email Shawn Jaquiss at shawn@childrensbookbank.org
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About The Children's Book Bank
Location:
1915 NE 7th Ave, Portland, OR 97212, US
Mission Statement
The mission of The Children's Book Bank is to increase the chances for children to succeed as future readers, learners, and citizens by filling their homes and lives with quality books.
Description
The Children’s Book Bank began when Founder and Executive Director Danielle Swope decided to find a way to give the stacks of books her children had outgrown. Inspired by her own experiences as a Teach for America teacher and a parent, Dani wanted to ensure that her children’s books got into the hands of kids who might not otherwise have books of their own at home. She contacted a local Head Start program that was happy to receive her family’s books and took her kids on a field trip to deliver them. Within a week her phone was ringing off the hook with people looking for the "Book Lady" and asking to sign up for her "program." Clearly, the community had a need for books! After a few pilot book drives, it became clear that the community ALSO had a supply of books to give. The missing piece was a sustainable system to get the books off shelves and into the hands and homes of kids in need. The Children’s Book Bank was created to fill that void by engaging the community in collecting, sorting, and distributing donated children’s books.
Since becoming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 2008, The Children’s Book Bank has organized over 10,000 community volunteers to channel over 650,000 books into the hands and homes of over 50,000 children in need in the Portland area.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
716 NE Marine DrivePortland, OR 97211
DATE POSTED
January 18, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 15
- Orientation or Training
- Three hour sessions
- Please be on time.