“Support the BOOK DRIVE”
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Posted by , December 14, 2006
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Dear Simmons Community,
Simmons Pre-Law Club is running a Better World Books campus book drive to benefit the Room to Read (www.roomtoread.org) and we would love to have your support! Please help us by donating any college-level books from the past 5 years that you no longer need!
We have set up big green and white collection boxes outside the Fens Cafeteria and in Smith and Morse Halls, which will remain up until December 19th. We’re looking to collect any book from the last 5 years that could be used in a college classroom, highlighting/writing in books is fine.
<b>Please donate any books you are unable to sell back to the books store!</b> Books collected for Room to Read will be put up for sale online to generate a sustainable stream of funding for the organization (100% of profits, after all costs, will go to RTR as unrestricted funding). Book drives like this one have raised over $150,000 for Room to Read in just the past two years!
About Room to Read Room to Read works with local communities in the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, Room to Read is a three-time recipient of the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist award, two-time winner of a Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship, and was among Time magazine’s 2004 “Asian Heroes. For more information, visit www.roomtoread.org or contact info@roomtoread.org.
About Better World Books: Better World Books (BWB) capitalizes on the value of the book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally, and around the world. Since its founding in 2003, Better World Books has raised more than $1.3 million for its non-profit literacy partners, provided more than 450,000 books for direct partner use & diverted in excess of five million pounds of books from landfills! Learn more at www.betterworldbooks.com.
Thank you in advance for your help with our project, please spread the word to everyone you know!
