My first week as an intern with First Book began with a First Book National Book Bank book distribution in Martinsburg, West Virginia. With roughly 500,000 books being given out, I knew this would be no small task for the first day. With the help of the US Coast Guard, Berkeley County Schools, and numerous other volunteers, […]

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Last week, two of my coworkers and I were on a 3-day adventure in a warehouse in Jacksonville, Florida to distribute 130,000 books to area kids. It was all very exciting, though very busy! Several of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars players, along with their mascot Jaxson de Ville, pulled together to make this […]

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Many of our book distributions would not be possible without the help of the U.S. Coast Guard. As the signature charity of the Coast Guard, First Book relies on their warehouse space and volunteers to help us distribute millions of books to kids in need.
The Coast Guard worked with us on our New Orleans book […]

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A sign in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, LA. View more photos from New Orleans onFirst Book’s Flickr Page

I just got back from a week-long trip to New Orleans, and I don’t think I’ve come back the same person. The week was intense and my mind is racing with impressions of the place […]

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The Cat in the Hat and San Antonio Councilman Roger Flores reading to kids from Neil Armstrong Elementary School.

This week I was lucky enough to spend some time in sunny San Antonio, Texas. What a fun town! I was there to help set up an event at the San Antonio Central Library, […]

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Donovan Patton poses with a group of kids showing off their new books.

Recently, First Book joined Nickelodeon, JetBlue Airways and Candlewick Press to host a celebratory event for the children in the Head Start program at the Long Beach School for Adults to announce Long Beach at the winning community to receive 50,000 new […]

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Last Friday, Heather K. and I had the pleasure of attending a very special book distribution at the Lynn Community Health Center in Lynn, Massachusetts. Working together, the Health Center’s Reach Out and Read program and the First Book-Lynn Advisory Board gave forty preschoolers from Lynn Head Start their first new books.
In addition to […]

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First Book’s plans for Make a Difference Day are mentioned in yesterday’s USA Weekend.
To celebrate this national day recognizing volunteerism in America, we are holding a book distribution in New York City on Saturday, Oct. 28. We still need volunteers if you live in the area.

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Saturday, October 28, is Make a Difference Day — a national day recognizing volunteerism in America. To celebrate, we are planning a book distribution in New York City in conjunction with the United States Coast Guard and we need your help. From 6 am to 10 am, rain or shine, we need people to carry […]

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Here at the First Book office in Washington, D.C., we get a bit confused sometimes. You’ve heard all the terms before — Book Relief, National Book Bank, Literacy Site — and now there’s one more for you to remember: “Learning Libraries.” But wait… Learning Libraries don’t come with books? What’s going on here?
Two weeks ago, […]

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