Thanks to the Cheerios® Read-A-Thon, now when you read together with your child, you can help provide a new book to a child in need. Through the Read-A-Thon, Cheerios is encouraging individuals to pledge to read to your kids for at least 15 minutes a day by today, March 15th. If they reach their goal [...]
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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 [...]
Our own social entrepreneur and founder, Kyle Zimmer, joined world leaders in Davos for the World Economic Forum last week. She presented an IdeasLab primer on the First Book Marketplace, in a session moderated by J. Gregory Dees, Professor, Practice of Social Entrepreneurship, Fuqua School of Business, Duke. Watch the presentation below and read more [...]
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Looking for a great way to raise money for a great cause such as First Book? Several bloggers will be raising money for First Book in the upcoming Blogathon, to take place on July 25th, 2009. If you are unfamiliar with what a Blogathon is, it’s essentially like a marathon without the running part. Blogathon [...]
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Stay connected to all that’s happening at First Book by following us on Twitter – a site for friends, family and fans to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Our resident tweeters, Aesah, Joan, Linda and Nisha, will keep you up to [...]
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In an effort to serve our Recipient Groups better the First Book Help Team is proud to unveil a brand new Web page for organizations serving children in need. The Recipient Group Online Resource Center, found at http://www.firstbook.org/rg, is a gateway to all of First Book’s resources and literacy campaigns including links to register and [...]
Thank you to everyone who Voted for First Book’s idea to Launch the Global Resources Network in round 1 of Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America! We’re thrilled to have moved on to the next round of voting, but we need your help! Please vote again in round 2 to help Launch the Global Resources [...]
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At First Book, we love hearing from kindred spirits who are helping get more books into the hands of kids who need them. So we were blown away to learn about the founders of “My Own Book.” Kyle and Brady Baldwin are teenage brothers from Northern California whose entrepreneurial accomplishments would make most grown-ups envious. [...]
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Can Facebook be used for the greater good? That’s what the Case Foundation is out to discover. Last Thursday marked the launch of their Giving Challenge in partnership with Causes on Facebook — an intriguing experiment that will test the impact of so-called “viral philanthropy.” The challenge is for nonprofits large and small to inspire [...]
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I’m writing this blog post from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, which is being held here in Washington, DC. Right now I’m at the Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group meeting, learning how different nonprofits use Flickr to let people know about their organization. If you aren’t familiar with Flickr, it’s a photo-sharing website where anyone can [...]
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