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9 people are interested
Bookseller for Non-profit Bookstore
ORGANIZATION: Blue Manatee Literacy Project
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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9 people are interested
The Blue Manatee Literacy Project is looking for volunteer booksellers to support the ManaTeam in our physical bookstore. The bookstore is located in the Oakley neighborhood in Cincinnati, OH. BMLP is a non-profit provides literacy education programming and support to at-risk students in the Cincinnati area. Additionally, for every book purchased through the Blue Manatee bookstore a new, age & content appropriate book is donated to a disadvantaged student.
The only qualifications for this opportunity is the ability to communicate in English, a passion for helping children succeed and a love of everything related to books. Prior retail experience is a plus but not mandatory.
Some of your duties may include:
- Running the point-of-sale system
- Helping customers find books and gift items
- Providing excellent customer service
- Promoting our non-profit mission to everyone that walks through the door
- Reading books and engaging young children during story time
- Placing special orders
- Shelving books and organizing displays
- Writing book reviews for our website and shelf talkers
- Receiving inventory as it arrives from publishers
- Attending BMLP events and offering support to the Events Manager
- General upkeep of the bookstore space
If you are enthusiastic about helping disadvantaged students develop strong reading skills and you love being surrounded by books and book people, this is the perfect opportunity for you! Please send a letter expressing your interest and detailing your qualifications to amanda@bluemanatee.org. The ManaTeam looks forward to hearing from you!
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About Blue Manatee Literacy Project
Location:
3094 Madison Road, Suite 1A, Cincinnati, OH 45209, US
Mission Statement
To empower every young reader with the skills, resources and inspiration to succeed.
Description
Blue Manatee Literacy Project (BMLP) has been launched by a community team of educators, reading and early childhood experts, start-up veterans, physicians and nonprofit leaders to directly enhance childhood literacy among Cincinnati’s at-risk student population. Through a reinvention of Oakley’s treasured Blue Manatee Bookstore as the front door to the mission we call "Curated Literacy", books and experiential learning will be purposely connected. For decades, the Blue Manatee’s incredible "sense of place" has fostered young readers’ enthusiasm for literature, imagination and expressive arts and formed familial bonds and routines that forever impact its patrons. Far too few children have the gift of this experience. We aim to change that.
Through our Buy One, Give One program, for every book purchased through the Blue Manatee a book is donated to an at-risk child. Since our opening, April 2019, over 7500 books have been donated to disadvantaged children (8/2019)
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Blue Manatee Literacy Project and Bookstore3094 Madison RoadCincinnati, OH 45209
DATE POSTED
September 27, 2019
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
- Customer Service
- Merchandising
- Retail / Sales
- People Skills
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- The time commitment is flexible but ideally would be 10-ish hours a month.