Guest blogger Yury Polnar is the Marketing Acquisitions Manager at Demand Media, an online community of freelance writers and copy editors that creates informative articles for popular websites like LIVESTRONG.com, eHow.com and many others.
Last December, more than 4,000 Demand Media freelance writers and copy editors put their fingers to keyboards around the country and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'First Book Events'
Demand Media’s “Write for a Cause” Returns
March 15th, 2010 · No Comments · First Book Events, Guest Blog Posts, Philanthropy
Tags: copy editors·Demand Media·Demand Studios·freelance·LIVESTRONG·partnership·Write for a Cause
Changing Lives One Page at a Time
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Books & Reading, First Book Events, Guest Blog Posts, Literacy
Guest blogger Stacy Conway is the marketing and communications manager for the Pi Beta Phi Foundation.
Even before my daughter was born, I read to her. I remember propping up myself in bed, resting a book on my big belly and reading out loud to the little girl inside. And I haven’t stopped reading to her. [...]
Tags: Elaine Powers·First Book·Leadership Academy·Lemay Child and Family Center·Pi Beta Phi Foundation·Pi Beta Phi Fraternity
Help us Receive $200,000 through Members Project from American Express and TakePart.com
March 8th, 2010 · No Comments · First Book Events, Literacy, Nonprofit Technology, Philanthropy
First Book is excited to be one of 50 cause-related charities showcased in this year’s Members Project initiative from American Express and TakePart. Participants to the site can vote once a week for a charity, and every three months, the charity that garners the most votes will win $200,000.
For First Book, this funding would provide 100,000 new books to kids living in high [...]
Our Trip to Harrisonburg
February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Around the First Book Office, Book Distributions, Books & Reading, First Book Events
Last week, I left my position as a Strategic Alliances intern and officially joined the First Book staff as a Recipient Group Coordinator. After trading in my 10th floor office for a new office on the 9th floor and saying farewell to the Strategic Alliances team, I headed to our warehouse in Harrisonburg, VA for [...]
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Demand Studios: 13,809 New Books and Counting…
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · First Book Events, General, Philanthropy
Demand Studios, the freelance community that produces web content for LIVESTRONG.COM, eHow, GolfLink, Trails.com and many other sites, has funded over 13,000 new books for children in need this month through the “Write for a Cause” campaign. For every eight articles that members of the Demand Studios community have submitted during December, the company has [...]
Tags: Demand Media·Demand Studios·freelance·Write for a Cause·writers
Bringing Books to the Mountain State
December 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Advisory Boards, Book Distributions, Book Recipients, First Book Events
Early Tuesday morning, First Book staff took a drive to Martinsburg, WV to visit our good friends at the James Rumsey Technical Institute.
The Materials Distribution program at James Rumsey has been helping First Book distribute 800,000 Little Golden Books that we received from a generous donation from Random House. We had a great time moving [...]
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Give and Receive with Neiman Marcus and First Book
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments · First Book Events, Philanthropy
You’ve heard the saying that “‘tis better to give than receive,” but what if you could do both? This holiday season you can, thanks to a partnership between Neiman Marcus and First Book.
Make a $25.00 donation to First Book during the Neiman Marcus December InCircle event (December 8-11) and you’ll receive a $50.00 gift card. [...]
Eight O’Clock Coffee Brings Boxes of New Books to Brooklyn Kids
November 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Books & Reading, First Book Events, Guest Blog Posts
Guest blogger Evette Rios is regularly featured on the syndicated TV talk show, “Rachael Ray.” Evette Rios has also designed on camera for HGTV’s “Freestyle”, and TLC’s “In A Fix.” Evette Rios designs interiors through her firm Sitio, bringing experience working in several of Manhattan’s top interior firms. A graduate of Bates College, Evette Rios [...]
Tags: Brooklyn Brownstone School·Candlewick Press·Eight O'Clock Coffee·Evette Rios·Freestyle·HGTV·In A Fix·Rachael Ray·Siempre Mujer·TLC
Books for Books Blog Contest
November 12th, 2009 · 290 Comments · First Book Events, General, Philanthropy
Remember that off-the-beaten-path, Mom and Pop restaurant that a friend of a friend told you about? Chances are it was the best meal of your life.
In support of life’s little known treasures, Fang Duff Kahn Publishers created the newest addition of their City Secrets series, Books: The Essential Insider’s Guide, a book to help you [...]
Tags: books·City Secrets·contest·donate·Fang Duff Kahn Publishers·Vanity Fair