- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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4 people are interested
Calling All Book Lovers: Help Needed Arranging Books for Benefit Sale
ORGANIZATION: IMC - Books to Prisoners
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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4 people are interested
We need lots of volunteers on the day before the sale, to help us arrange thousands of books in a shopper-friendly way. While volunteers can work all day if they like, we have arranged the work into two hour shifts--two hours give or take.
You will enjoy this work if you love books, are familiar with book categories and genres, enjoy alphabetizing, enjoy working with others, and are okay being on your feet for two hours or so.
Saturday, Oct. 7th is our fall benefit book sale to raise money to provide books to people incarcerated in Illinois at no charge to them, and to promote education and awareness in ourcommunity of incarceration and prisons.At these sales, we sell gently-used books donated to us by the community, that are over and above what we can use.
If you like helping with something big for the sake of providing people in our prisons the books they long to read and the subjects they want to study, this opportunity will be very rewarding and a lot of fun for you.
4 Shifts
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Fri Oct 06, 2023
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afternoon /
03:00 PM to 04:45 PM
You will be arranging books on tables for a benefit sale, according to subject. You will alphabetize fiction by author, biography by subject, etc.
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Fri Oct 06, 2023
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afternoon /
01:00 PM to 03:00 PM
You will be arranging books on tables for a benefit sale, according to subject. You will alphabetize fiction by author, biography by subject, etc.
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Fri Oct 06, 2023
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11:00 AM to 01:00 PM
You will be arranging books on tables for a benefit sale, according to subject. You will alphabetize fiction by author, biography by subject, etc.
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Fri Oct 06, 2023
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morning /
09:00 AM to 11:00 AM
You will be arranging books on tables for a benefit sale, according to subject. You will alphabetize fiction by author, biography by subject, etc.
More opportunities with IMC - Books to Prisoners
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About IMC - Books to Prisoners
Location:
202 S. Broadway Ave, P.O. Box 515, Urbana, IL 61802, US
Mission Statement
The mission of U-C Books to Prisoners is to provide books to incarcerated people in Illinois at no cost to them, and to promote education about incarceration and prisons in our community.
Description
UC Books to Prisoners is an Urbana, Illinois based project providing books to people in prison in Illinois by mail as well as through the Champaign county jail library which we operate.
We are an 20 year-old community-powered and volunteer-run organization with a number of easy ways for you to get involved. No experience is required (but it helps if you like to read). It suits most volunteers to give two to four hours a month due to the nature of the work, but if you like, you can volunteer more often,
Our volunteers interact with the incarcerated by reading their book request letters, selecting books from our collection and preparing them for shipment. They also regularly sort through book donations. We also staff a lending library in the Champaign County jail. If you would prefer to work behind the scenes, we can also utilize your unique skills coordinating book drives, fund raising, tech-support, packing boxes, data-base work, developing programs to educate and engage the community around issues of books and prisons, staffing our book sales, and more.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Independent Media Center-Books to Prisoners202 S. Broadway Ave.Urbana, IL 61802
DATE POSTED
August 15, 2023
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
- Library Sciences
- Sales Process
- Adult Education
- Fundraising
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- two hours, give or take, on Friday, Octobwe 6, between 9 am and 5pm.
- Volunteers should understand general book categories, be able to be on their feet for two hours, and be strong enough to handle moving books around on a table or from table to table.