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Flexible Schedule
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA 94301
To sign up for this opportunity, please fill out the sign-up form on our website: https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer-opportunity/conduct-a-book-drive-with-your-kids-for-a-lending-library-box/ Share your love of reading, while giving back to the community. This is a great project for families, including families with young children! Run a book drive for Access Books Bay Area by collecting books and donations from relatives, classmates, neighbors, and community members. By doing so, you will contribute to Access Books Bay Area’s mission to bring engaging, high interest books to children who need them most. Students in the communities we serve do not have good access to new and inviting books, especially as compared to their peers in more affluent communities. During this time of distance learning, Access Books Bay Area has developed ways to bring books to these students in under-served communities. These kids want more books! You can help by conducting a book drive. Staff at Access Books Bay Area will guide you through the process. This is a great project for families. An adult or teen is needed to supervise, but there is lots of opportunity for children to be very active in this project. Volunteers will: Create materials to announce and advertise their book drive to family, friends, neighbors, community members, etc. Share these materials by posting to online or offline communities you are part of. Collect the books and monetary donations over a period of a few weeks (this is your 'Book Drive’). Deliver the books you have collected to one of our locations in the SF Bay Area. Children can be involved at every step of the process, including making a sign, sharing it, gathering the donations, and delivering the books to us. We will provide guidance, including specifics for your communications, descriptions of types of books we are seeking, wishlists for donors who would rather purchase books, etc. Your child can even make their own 'favorite books’ wishlist to share with donors, with the aim of sharing their favorite books with other kids. You can read about a book drive example here: https://www.accessbooksbayarea.org/ayaans-book-drive/ Sign up form: https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer-opportunity/conduct-a-book-drive-with-your-kids-for-a-lending-library-box/
Date Posted: Mar 3, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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San Francisco, CA 94103
Access Books Bay Area needs the skills of a trained children's librarian to help us develop the collections of school libraries serving children living in poverty in the Bay Area, many of whom have been disproportionately impacted by the combination of a year and a half of at-home learning with no access to a library and ongoing quarantines and school disruptions due to COVID-19. Our grants allow schools serving 80% or more children living at or below the federal poverty line to add brand new, high quality, diverse books to their school library collections, many of which have not been regularly funded in decades. As a part of the Access Books Bay Area staff you would work with our operations team to assess the collections of applicant schools, collaborate with the library staff at the school to weed their current collection and decide on new book purchases, and work with our vendors and cataloging provider to get the books and processing needed for the library. An occasional site visit to a school in SF, the Peninsula, the East Bay, or the South Bay would be required, but the rest of the process is generally done remotely. Your help would also be appreciated on our project days at the schools. We usually carry out between 3 and 4 projects per year. We are currently a small, all-volunteer organization, and over 90% of our funding goes directly towards our projects.
Date Posted: Mar 10, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Virtual Opportunity
Access Books Bay Area is looking for an individual who believes in our mission of bridging the literacy gap for the Bay Area's most vulnerable children living in poverty, and who wants to help us expand our work as webmaster for our wordpress website. As webmaster, you would help Access Books Bay Area to keep our online presence effective and well maintained, and by doing so enable us to reach more people as both donors and volunteers! Our programs serve children and schools heavily impacted by the adverse academic effects of the COVID shutdowns. Experience with wordpress back end required, including managing widgets, blog posts, forms, plugins and web design and layout. Coding in html5 and css also occasionally required. As webmaster you would attend a short weekly meeting with our communications team, and then work approximately 1-2 hours/week on your own to maintain the website and post content provided by the communications team.
Date Posted: Feb 24, 2022
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Flexible Schedule
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Bay Area, CA 94303
To sign up for this opportunity, please fill out our sign-up form on our website: https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer-opportunity/donate-books/ With the pandemic still raging around the Bay Area, school libraries remain closed, and curbside service is rare in the Bay Area's poorest neighborhoods. Access Books Bay Area is getting books into the hands of the children who need them most, building their literacy skills, getting their attention off of a screen to read a book, through our little library book boxes initiatives, and direct book giveaways at meal distributions. But we need your help! We need more books to stock these efforts. If you have books to give, either from your personal collection, or if you are willing to purchase them, please read on for our book donation specifications. WE DO NOT ACCEPT ADULT BOOKS OR BOOKS MORE THAN 5 YEARS OLD. We accept the following types of book donations: Used Books - You can give a new life to the books you don’t need anymore! Please only recent/high quality, elementary school books. Please no workbooks, or books that are worn or have been marked in. No adult books or young adult books. We’d rather have fewer, higher quality books than a larger number that includes low interest/old books. We generally have more need for books for younger readers, grades K-2. Graphic novels are very popular. Bilingual books in Spanish are welcome. Examples of popular titles: Dog Man (and other Dav Pilkey), Elephant & Piggie (and other Mo Willems), Geronimo Stilton, Fly Guy, Dork Diaries, Pete the Cat, Splat the Cat, I Survived, Babymouse, Hilo, Narwhal, Dragonbreath, and more New Books - of course we love receiving new books! You can purchase books in the following ways: Our Books4School wishlist - this is a small family-owned bookseller with a similar mission to ours, where you can purchase very low cost new books. Our Amazon Wishlist: https://tinyurl.com/abbawish (Please note that this wishlist generally shows the hardcover version of book titles, which we prefer for library use. Choose the paperback version - paperbacks are great for book drives, cheaper and the books will go to our little lending libraries!) Another option is to make your own shorter wishlist, of books your child likes, and share that for people to browse/buy from Donors can purchase books locally at Linden Tree or Books Inc. If you are interested in running a book drive in your neighborhood, and collecting even more books for us, please see our other volunteer opportunity to run a book drive here: https://accessbooksbayarea.org/volunteer-opportunity/conduct-a-book-drive-with-your-kids-for-a-lending-library-box/
Date Posted: Mar 3, 2022
