During the week of September 25th, staff and volunteers worked together to distribute over 170,000 new children’s and adult books to more than 110 organizations throughout Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Texas as part of our Book Relief initiative. This distribution was conducted out of Merchants Cold Storage warehouse in Hattiesburg, Mississippi — many thanks [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Book Relief'
Over 170,000 Books Distributed for Book Relief!
October 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Book Distributions, Book Relief
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Fearless on the Gulf Coast
September 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Book Relief, Books & Reading
The First Book office is in a central location in downtown Washington, DC, and the options for how to spend a lunch hour are endless. One of my favorite things to do is to visit book stores, particularly for author readings and book signings. I had heard that Arianna Huffington was going to be in [...]
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Books As People Magnets
September 12th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Book Relief, Guest Blog Posts
Guest blogger Bill Branley is a writer and jazz musician who grew up in New Orleans and now lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two children. He is the author of Sea Changes, a novel that benefits Book Relief. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve had the opportunity to speak on [...]
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One Year Later: Sharing Stories From the Storm
August 29th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Book Relief, General
On Friday I traveled to Mississippi to join Dr. Henry Johnson, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Education, to announce that First Book will be joining forces with the U.S. Department of Education to distribute more than 200,000 new books donated by Random House Children’s Books to children affected by the hurricanes of 2005. Living [...]
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Looking Back on Book Relief: One Year Later
August 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Book Distributions, Book Relief, General
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma struck the Gulf Coast. I’m sure that in the next couple of weeks all of the news programs will begin their coverage of the anniversary of the storms and show what progress has (or hasn’t) been made in the [...]
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Literacy & Justice for All Success
July 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Book Distributions, Book Relief
We officially distributed 57,462 books to the state of Louisiana to fulfill our promise that 50,000 books would be dedicated to the state as a result of winning the Literacy & Justice for All campaign. Rachael V., Rachel S. and I were on hand in New Orleans to distribute these books — along with an [...]
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One boil, Two Beignets, 100,000 Books
July 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Book Distributions, Book Relief
I had never been to New Orleans before I went there for the Literacy and Justice For All distribution there last week; whoa. The city was absolutely unlike any other place I had ever been; it feels like a different country! We experienced so many things that are unique to that place: one of the [...]
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Rising waters
June 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Book Relief
I’m not sure if everyone is aware of the intense weather pattern that has been hovering over the eastern seaboard, but it certainly has been fierce. We’ve had brilliant lightning, booming thunderstorms, monsoon-like rain, flash flooding, mudslides and more. As a result, the weather has disrupted commutes, closed museums, flooded roads and subway tunnels and [...]
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Book Relief – 2.5 Million and Counting
June 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Book Relief
First Book’s Book Relief efforts hit an important milestone last week when we distributed our 2.5 millionth book in the Gulf Coast region. In just ten months, we’re halfway to our goal of distributing five million books to children, adults, schools, libraries and other organizations impacted by last year’s hurricanes. This article from the Sun [...]
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What’s Your Favorite?
June 16th, 2006 · 7 Comments · Book Relief, Books & Reading
Two happenings have brought me to a cool question. First, it’s summer in the city and the schedules are out for big screen public film viewings in DC. Picnics on the green and pleasant evenings revisiting old films – perfect summer fun. Second, First Book’s hurricane response, Book Relief, celebrated the support of some great [...]
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