The Berkeley Baby Book Project
Cause Area
- Children & Youth
- Community
- Education & Literacy
Location
PO BOX 8213Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebbbpil/BERKELEY, CA 94707 United StatesWebsite:
http://www.thebbbp.org
Organization Information
Mission Statement
To provide the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library book gifting program for as many East Bay communities as we can. Imagination Library mails books monthly to children age birth to fifth birthday month at no cost. Titles are age-appropriate and carefully selected. As of late 2023 Imagination Library mails books to more than 2.6 million children. Here in California a Partnership with our State Librarian's Office launched in July 2023. It includes, for CA only, a choice of an All-Bilingual Spanish-English book list. The Goal of the Partnership is to enroll 65% of CA's under 5 population by 2028 -- that's about 2,000,000 children. Help us do our part!
Description
Our first IL Program began serving Berkeley in mid-2015. It was launched in partnership with Head Start sites. In late 2020 we added ZIP Code 94608 (Emeryville) to that Program. In 2022 we began an IL Program serving Richmond & San Pablo -- again, working with Head Start Sites to launch.
If you are interested in volunteer work for The BBBP please look at our website and look at Dolly Parton's Imagination Library website to get an idea of what we do before contacting us.
Our current (Fall 2023) goal is to secure funding sufficient to allow us to open the Online Enrollment form for Richmond & San Pablo. Currently only paper forms, mailed to us, are used. Berkeley & Emeryville Online enrollment began in mid-2020 (Covid shut downs pushed us to do so!). We predict that at least 2,000 children will be added very quickly, then more up to about 65% of the 7,0000-ish under-five year olds in that area, when Online enrollment is allowed in Rich-SanPab. We want to be sure we're able to pay IL Book invoices, and keep our lights on, for every child we enroll until they turn age 5.
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