Help a local nonprofit with accounting and taxes
ORGANIZATION: Access Books Bay Area
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Access Books Bay Area is a small local nonprofit dedicated to providing low-income children with equal opportunity to literacy and pleasure reading experiences by improving school library collections with new engaging and diverse books. We have recently begun to get more grants and funding from corporations, but do not have anyone versed in accounting to do our taxes or help us audit our accounting, and would very much appreciate the help of a professional. As an all volunteer organization with only between $50-$80K of revenue each year, however, all of our funds are going towards our projects, so we cannot afford to hire an accountant. Can you help us?
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About Access Books Bay Area
Location:
80 Harriet Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read. We believe that books change lives, and that for children living in poverty, the school library is the best way to connect children with pleasure reading books. Studies have shown that reading for pleasure is one of the single greatest indicators of future academic success, yet the state of California provides no dedicated funding for school libraries, and many of the schools in the Bay Area have not funded their school libraries for decades, leading to out-dated collections and unattractive facilities. Our organization changes lives by making sure that the school library is an attractive place full of wonderful, interesting, recent, and culturally relevant books that will help them become lifelong readers.
Description
We provide books to low-income schools where approximately 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Our organization provides brand new, hardcover, high quality books to school libraries and gently used books to teachers for classroom libraries, as well as improving the library space by painting colorful, reading-based murals and providing new comfortable reading furniture.
We complete 2-3 library renovation projects each academic year, each taking place on a Saturday from 9am - 2pm. Volunteers from partner community service organizations collect the gently used books to be donated and provide volunteers for the project day.
We serve school around the bay area, although most of our work to date has been concentrated in the south bay and peninsula areas. We have renovated nine elementary and middle school libraries in high poverty areas to date, and have applications pending for four more, one of which will be renovated this spring.
CAUSE AREAS
Children & Youth,
Community,
Education & Literacy
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
April 12, 2025
SKILLS
- Financial Planning
- Budgeting
- ETC / Tax Assistance
- Accounting
- Bookkeeping
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 24
- 10 hours/month
- Licensed CPA.