The Indigenous Literacy Foundation has spent a decade leveraging the skills of publishing pros bring the love of books to remote communities in Australia.
In South Africa, Crowd-sourced Publishing Tackles Book Poverty
A new start-up in South Africa, Book Dash, focuses on creating and giving away free, high-quality books to needy children and encourages them to become lifelong readers
L’école des loisirs Illustrators Decorate Paris Pediatric Hospital
An innovative collaboration between a French children’s publisher l’école des loisirs and a children’s hospital results in something extraordinary.
Scholastic Donates 1m Books to Charity Reach Out & Read
Scholastic has donated 1 million books to Reach Out and Read, a literacy charity that works to provide books to at-risk children via doctors and nurses.
Auctioning Borders’ Old Signage to Help Booksellers in Need
Formerly part of Borders, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation has given some $4.1 million to 2,700 individuals since 1996. Now, they’re auctioning Borders’ old signage.
Casting Financial Safety Nets for Authors in Distress
Since 1917, the Authors League Fund has been helping writers cope with medical expenses and other needs; since the start of recession applications for grants have doubled.
Lost, Found and Read: BookCrossing as a Global Phenomenon
BookCrossing’s ‘leave a book for a stranger to find’ program has gone global, with 71% of its 1.2m members outside the US and several nations using it to promote reading.
Seizing the Machinery of Publishing
Concord Free Press’s unconventional generosity based publishing gives away limited-edition books by A-list writers and has raised $250,000 for charity.
Hayya Naqra! (Let’s Read!) Brings Books to Palestine’s Neediest
American organization ANERA encourages reading among parents and children of the West Bank
World Book Night Comes to the USA in 2012
UK charity World Book Night to launch in the US in 2012 and give away 1 million books around the country.