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  • Impact

We Give Books To Kids in Underserved Communities

Giveaway Library/Book Fair

 Giveaway libraries are great because many of our recipients have never owned a book and they get to select and take home books.  

Book Distribution

We give bags of books sorted by grade level and gender.  These books are distributed to children when they come for food distribution during the pandemic. We recently completed a similar project for Para Los Ninos.

Lending Libraries

Lending Libraries

The greatest predictor of literacy for children living in poverty is the quality of their school library.  Lending libraries allow children to bring books home to share with their families. Lending Libraries are filled with high-interest books specifically curated for each community. A recent project is Braddock Drive Elementary.

Research

Lending Libraries

 Bookworm Global believes literacy is a path out of poverty and aims to ensure students gain critical reading skills needed to lead productive lives. One of our goals is to evaluate the success of our program. We survey and analyze data to improve our program and report on our impact. We will be updating this section and adjusting our program accordingly. We hope schools can use results to apply for grants and funding. Chloe is our Lead Research Ambassador.

Book Recycle

Books in landfills

Each year people throw away thousands of books and textbooks. We are looking for an environmental ambassador to work with schools to run textbook recycling drives at the same time as textbook buybacks. We hope to minimize the number of books in landfills. Interesting article about creative garbagemen who took on the same issue.

Technical Help

We help nonprofits with social media, remote training, marketing, and online fundraising.  Representative organizations include Neighbor2Neighbor and National Charity League, LA.

Author Interviews

Author Interviews

Author Interviews

 Bookworm Global recieves generous donations from authors. Ryland is passionate about writing and aims to be a writer herself. She started the Author Interview Initiative. YouTube Channel Here. Ryland was our first Ambassador and is always an inspriation. 


Refugees

Author Interviews

Author Interviews

Pittsburgh based Ambassador, Mathew, has done amazing work addressing the refugee literacy crisis.  Matthew works with politicians, schools and family centers to distribute books to this vulnerable population. 


Library Donations

collect

remove all the books

remove all the books

Girl Scout book donations

It takes about about a month for us to collect enough books for a library.  Often a large portion of the books are too matrue for elementary school libraries.  We donate those books elsewhere.

remove all the books

remove all the books

remove all the books

Book donation national charity league

Once we have ammassed enough books, we take them all out and see what we have.  We quality control every book we donate.

sort by type

remove all the books

Books virtual volunteers donated

Sorting by type/author makes it easy for libarians to shelve the books quickly so children can have immediate access.

diverse titles and genres

high-interest books and series

We try to ensure that libraries have a broad range of topics and are from several genres.  

high-interest books and series

high-interest books and series

high-interest books and series

We aim to give high interest books and books series to encourage readers to keep going. We often donate full sets.

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Causes

Literacy

Literacy is the ability to read and write and there is a literacy crisis around the world. According to UNESCO, approximately 250 million are children are illiterate worldwide. Everyday, kids with low literacy rates drop out of school. Low literacy prevents people from being productive members of society. Book giveaway programs are proven to be succesful in bolstering literacy. Bookworm Global has helped volunteers and nonprofits serve people in their neighborhoods and around the globe. 

Education Equity

Eduction equity means that everyone should have the same rights, opportunities and resources for education. There is a huge gap in education and resources in the United States across socioeconomic status and race. Children in underserved commuities have real challenges because they are exposed to two-thirds fewer words than students from families in more affluent areas, according to researchers at the University of Kansas. In fact these by the time these students enter Kindergarten, they have been exposed to 30 million fewer words. The disparities negatively impacts everyone. These disparities are especially stark during the pandemic when millions of students dont have access to reliable internet at home. Physical books can play an important role in preventing students from educational backsliding.

Education Reform

Education reform is the goal of changing public education in the United States to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to be literate. The pandemic has increased the wide gap in education.  We see incredible inequity in structured educational time and social-emotional support.

Environmental impact

Approximately 650,000 books are sent to landfills annually.  Donating and distributing used books is a great way to ensure they stay out of landfills.

Donations Made in 2020

Full ride

Our early donations were made during the pandemic when schools and libraries were closed.

Teens donate band volunteer safely

This fantastic volunteer and her mom dropped thousands of books for Para Los Ninos.

Sort and donate during Covid pandemic

We make efforts to let students select their own books but during the pandemic we sorted books by age and gender for distribution. 

Thousands of books
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Volunteers at Work

Sample Books

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