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Join the team!

Looking for A Virtual Volunteer Opportunity?

Having an impact is fun, easy and safe.  Leverage our "how to" plans to get started promoting literacy in your community. Increase your impact by doing a virtual book drive with your school, service organization, sports team or religious organization. Our program is all about kids helping kids.  

Ambassadors

Ella

Ryland

Ella

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Ella is a dystopian YA enthusiast. She has collected over 1000 books in Riverside, CA.  Ella is on the leadership council at her school and looks forward to leading an in-person book drive when school resumes.  Ella enjoys volunteering with Bookworm Global during the pandemic, contributing while staying safe.  She currently has a book drive underway. Has collected nearly 1000 books for Bookworm Global.   

Noa

Ryland

Ella

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Noa is a bibliophile and aims to encourage others to find her same love of reading and collecting books. She gathered over 900 books in her first drive to create a lending library for an underserved school. She is currently a high school student who has participated in multiple book clubs and reading challenges. Noa has great intentions to improve literacy rates throughout her city and beyond by creating innovative book campaigns. She is interested in film, architecture, and production design.      

Ryland

Ryland

Ryland

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Ryland enjoys historical fiction and teen romances. Ryland collected more than 675 books for Children's Book Project during her first book drive. Ryland has trained service groups and recruited volunteers. Ryland's enthusiasm is infectious and she recruited additional volunteers for Bookworm Global. She hopes to advocate for education equity for students in East Palo Alto by promoting literacy. We are so honored to be working with Ryland. 

Eden

Eden

Ryland

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Eden enjoys science fiction and dystopian novels and is featured here with her favorite book.  Eden completed a very successful book drive around International Literacy Day and enjoyed it so much that she plans to do a holiday book drive.  She aims to donate books to children in underserved communities as part of their holiday gifts.  She hopes that receiving a book will inspire more kids to read. 

Adar

Eden

Adar

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Adar has been working hard to collect and sort books for Watts Learning Center.   

Will

Eden

Adar

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Will has helped collect and sort thousands of books.  He loves reading and talking about books with his family.  Will promotes recycling books to benefit the environment and because he is concerned about education equity and the growing educational gap increased by the pandemic.  Will has recruited organizations to participate in book drives.  

Hayden

Hayden

Hayden

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Hayden enjoys reading all types of young adult fiction. Some of her favorite books are The Outsiders, A Christmas Carol, and Never Let Me Go. She has collected over 850 books so far and hopes to collect many more throughout high school. She knows it is more important than ever to donate books to those who really need them during the pandemic.  She is happy to to help with this in any way I can. 

Sarah

Hayden

Hayden

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Sarah is a sophomore born and raised in Los Angelos, California. She has been a camp counselor for 3 years at Monarch Camp and specializes in working with 5-7 year olds. She is passionate about working with young children and helping them broaden their minds. She is excited to begin tutoring and is currently looking for more teens that are interested in helping elementary students reach their academic goals.

How to Bring Bookworm Global To Your Area

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Before the Drive

During the Book Drive

During the Book Drive

  • See a full set-up guide from Bookworm Global under forms
  • Determine where the books will be donated or ask us for help info@bookwormglobal.com.
  • Understand the needs of the organization where you are donating.
  • What age-range or grade level are they looking to collect books for?
  • How many students do they have? How many books do they need?
  • Set a d

  • See a full set-up guide from Bookworm Global under forms
  • Determine where the books will be donated or ask us for help info@bookwormglobal.com.
  • Understand the needs of the organization where you are donating.
  • What age-range or grade level are they looking to collect books for?
  • How many students do they have? How many books do they need?
  • Set a donation goal and collection dates.
  • Determine collection sites.
  • Post to social media - how to under forms
  • Spread the word by posting notices of the collection sites highlighting types of books you are looking for, dates of the collection, who the books will benefit and why this is an important cause. 
  • Email info@bookwormglobal to let us know your plans too so we can help spread the word.

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During the Book Drive

During the Book Drive

During the Book Drive

  • Quality control is important.  Sort books by age and interest.  
  • Discard books that are annotated or written in.
  • Make sure all of the pages are in the book and the book is in gently used condition,
  • Get our guides for building awareness to expand your reach. 

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Distribute Books

Distribute Books

Distribute Books

You can direct ship books to the intended recipient organization or you can deliver.  We have tips for safe delivering during the pandemic.

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After the Drive

Distribute Books

Distribute Books

Let us know how you did.   info@bookwormglobal.com 

Celebrate your achievement!  Lettting people know about your success continues to publicize the needs of the organization you helped and bring awareness to issues like education equality and literacy.   

Champions

Jillion Weisberg

Karen Ellman Shaine

Jillion Weisberg

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Jillion serves as a mentor, coach and logistics manager for Bookworm Global's youth-adult partnerships.  Jillion consults with ambassaords to find meaningful projects that will help them magnify their impact.

Lee Broekman

Karen Ellman Shaine

Jillion Weisberg

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Lee is an expert in persuasion, presentation, and interpersonal communication so Bookworm Global is lucky to have her as a champion.   Her energy is contagious and her contribution to the team is immense.  Lee has already transported and recycled more than 2000 books for Bookworm Global.

Karen Ellman Shaine

Karen Ellman Shaine

Karen Ellman Shaine

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Karen is one of the most generous people you will meet.  She drove around Los Angeles and picked up approximately 1000 of the books that Bookworm Global has collected since inception.   She is a tireless champion of the Bookworm Global and has contributed significantly to our efforts.  

Photo Gallery

Success Story

Riverside Book Drive

Riverside Book Drive

Riverside Book Drive

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The girls set out do a book drive when school started.  Together they collected more than 900 books.

Process

Riverside Book Drive

Riverside Book Drive

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They started by asking their mom to post on social media.  They asked people to drop books at their doorstep.  They also notified neighbors that they would be picking up books on specific dates.  They got a LOT of books!

Sorting

Riverside Book Drive

Where Will The Books Go?

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The drive ran for 3 weeks.  There were more than 900 books in all.  They then sorted the books.   The adult and religious books were separated from the children's books because they go to different places. 

Where Will The Books Go?

Where Will The Books Go?

Where Will The Books Go?

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85 to 96% of the students at the schools we serve qualify for free meals.  The books will be distributed by the schools to children when they pick up their meals.  

The Feeling

Where Will The Books Go?

You can help too!

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"The no contact book drive was really fun and easy to do.  We loved collecting and sorting the books!  We plan to do another book drive at Christmas."

You can help too!

Where Will The Books Go?

You can help too!

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No contact book drives are easy and exciting.  It is not uncommon for motivated volunteers to collect more than 500 books when using our methodology.

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