The book bank is an awesome place. First off...it's full of BOOKS. That automatically puts it pretty high on my list of "cool places I want to spend time". But more than that, the book bank is a place that enables people to obtain books for FREE. Read on, it gets better.
The Heartland Book Bank is a not-for-profit organization with a double purpose. First off, they promote literacy. They take in donations of books and make those books available to different agencies and home schoolers for free. There's no limit on how many books an agency can take, or how often they can visit, and it's all free!
Secondly, they serve to recycle the materials they get that just aren't usable any more. Books that have been well loved, or are simply too old to be relevant any more. (really, no one needs the federal employee benefits manual from 1969)
All workers at the book bank do so on a volunteer basis, and they are dependent on donations from the general public. (pssst, that's you!) So if anyone is in the Kansas City area, and you have books or time to spare, be sure to look up the lovely people at the book bank. You will never find a more grateful bunch.
Me, I have grand dreams of being able to organize some kind of multi-author donation/signing...thing for them once my book is out. I haven't pinned down plans yet, but Kansas City seems to be assembling quite a group of local authors, and it would be nice to be able to give back.
4 comments:
Hey! That's pretty awesome! My area just became part of the Imagination Library, which is pretty awesome, too.
heh... wish we had something like that around here!
Kari, you're so awesome. It's great that you're so passionate about this. If I didn't live 3-4 states away, I'd be coming by!
I'll have to look into this. It sounds like a great place to volunteer.
I would love to ship out a bunch of books their way. Seriously, I have several books I will never keep, (and the roomie has so many I'm ready to stage a revolt), and would love to see them go to some place like this.
Because I think this is a brilliant idea.
So perhaps when next I come out, and if I'm willing to pay to ship them with me, I might bring a load. Pay the charge on the luggage, so I have room to go shopping when I'm there visiting! As I always seem to end up with shoes every time I'm in town....
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