Baton Rouge Book Drop

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mission: Collecting and donating books to Baton Rouge area non-profits that serve children in need.

https://www.facebook.com/batonrougebookdrop/

Book Fairies

Freeport, New York

Mission: Book Fairies sources and redistributes books to under-resourced communities on Long Island and New York City to provide equitable opportunities for children to learn, grow, and thrive.

https://thebookfairies.org/

Book ‘Em

Nashville, Tennessee

Mission: Book’em's mission is to create a more literate Nashville and ignite children’s passion for reading through book ownership and enthusiastic volunteers. We envision a future in Nashville where all children own books and know first-hand the joy and value of reading.

https://bookem-kids.org/

Books Save Lives

Tucson, Arizona

Mission: Providing universal access for every child, home, school and community to experience the transformational power of books.

https://www.childrensreadingalliance.org/

Book Give

Denver, Colorado

Mission: Book Give aims to spark a lifelong love of reading by fueling the community with free books.

https://bookgivedenver.org/

Books Between Kids

Houston, Texas

Mission: Books Between Kids is a non-profit organization serving Houston’s at-risk children by providing them with books to build their own home libraries.

https://www.booksbetweenkids.org/

Books Like Me

Tampa, Florida

Mission: To purposefully supply students, classrooms, and public libraries with culturally relevant children's books to progress diversity and inclusion through literature.

https://bookslikemeinc.org/

Book Harvest

Durham, North Carolina

Mission: Book Harvest provides an abundance of books and ongoing literacy support to families and their children from birth and serves as a model for communities committed to ensuring that children are lifelong readers and learners.

https://bookharvest.org/

Born To Read

Beaufort, South Carolina

Mission: The mission of Born To Read is to promote early childhood literacy and language development while helping new parents understand their critical role as their child’s first and most important teacher.

https://borntoread.org/

Brookline Teen Outreach

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mission: Brookline Teen Outreach provides quality resources free of charge to youth ages 10-18 in the Greater Pittsburgh area to maximize their potential through educational and social programming, life skills workshops, tutoring, community service opportunities, and licensed counseling.

https://www.brooklineteenoutreach.org/

Big House Books

Jackson, Mississippi

Mission: Big House Books is a non-profit, volunteer organization that sends free books by request to prisoners in Mississippi correctional facilities in order to promote literacy and be a vehicle of change for prison reform

https://bighousebooksms.org/

Book Smiles

Pennsauken Township, New Jersey

Mission: Book Smiles promotes literacy and the joy of reading by giving books to children throughout Philadelphia and New Jersey. Book Smiles provides students with high-quality new or gently used books, laying the groundwork for academic success. Educators receive books for classroom libraries and students receive books to keep at home.

https://www.booksmiles.org/

Bonnie’s Book Foundation

Raleigh, North Carolina

Mission: Bonnie's Book Foundation supports children’s literacy by providing books directly to children who may not own books at home.

https://www.bonniesbooks.org/

Backpack Beginnings

Greensboro, North Carolina

Mission: Our mission is to deliver child-centric services to feed, comfort, and clothe children in need. Serving over 21,000 children annually, our vision is a community of healthy and well-nurtured children.

https://backpackbeginnings.org/

Beyond Our Walls

North Charleston, South Carolina

Mission: The goal of Beyond Our Walls is to expose children living with limited resources to the many cultural and educational opportunities available in our community. All children deserve "the best" regardless of their family's income and the zip code where they live.

https://www.beyondourwalls.org/

Bridge of Books

Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

Mission: Bridge of Books strives to provide an ongoing source of books to underserved children throughout New Jersey in order to support the development of literacy skills and to encourage a love of reading.

https://bridgeofbooksfoundation.org/

Calvary Cleveland and Reading at the Park

Cleveland, Mississippi

Mission: The mission of Reading at the Park is to encourage better literacy and academic outcomes in underserved areas of the Mississippi Delta. https://www.calvaryclevelandms.org/r-a-p

Caitlin’s Smiles

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Mission: Caitlin’s Smiles give children with life-threatening or chronic conditions a way to express their creativity.

https://caitlins-smiles.org/

Casa BruMar

Manassas, Virginia

Mission: Casa BruMar strives to bridge the gap that leaves the LGBTQ+ community behind when it comes to equitable equality in education, social services, and human dignity in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Prince William County.

Casa BruMar Foundations’ charitable purposes are to provide a physical meeting space and community social services to at-risk and disadvantaged individuals experiencing homelessness, abandonment, and cruelty, especially members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (“LGBTQ+”) community.

https://casabrumarfoundation.org

Children Read

Atlanta, Georgia

Mission: Children Read is designed to improve reading skills of children by giving them books of their own before they reach kindergarten. To do this, Children Read collects and repairs used and new books and then distributes them free of charge to children.

https://www.childrenreadatlanta.org/

Children’s Book Project

San Francisco, California

Mission: Children’s Book Project gives books to children who need them for equity in literacy, learning, and life.

https://www.childrensbookproject.org/

Children’s Cabinet

Reno, Nevada

Mission: The Children’s Cabinet’s mission is and always has been to keep children safe and families together. We do this by providing services and resources that address unmet needs in our state.

https://www.childrenscabinet.org/

Children’s Consortium of Syracuse

Syracuse, New York

Mission: Children’s Consortium strives to build upon the strengths of children, families, and educators by investing in resources, information, and training toward promoting the future health and success of our greatest asset - our children.

https://www.childrensconsortium.org/

Children’s Museum of Richmond Book Bank

Richmond, Virginia

Mission: The Children’s Book Bank helps to ensure that all children have quality books in their homes, experience the pride of book ownership, and have opportunities to read and be read to. The Book Bank program supports school readiness and literacy development in children and enables community partners to better support our children through the gift of books.

https://www.childrensmuseumofrichmond.org/community/book-bank/

Children’s Museum of New Hampshire

Dover, New Hampshire

Mission: To actively engage families in hands-on discovery and inspire all to become the next generation of innovators and creative thinkers.

https://childrens-museum.org/

Children’s Literacy Center

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission: Children’s Literacy Center’s mission is to build a life of success through a foundation of literacy…..ONE child at a time.

https://childrensliteracycenter.org/

Children’s Literacy Adds Potential

Alexandria, Virginia

Mission: Children’s Literacy Adds Potential endeavors to help build futures full of promise for underprivileged children through the collection and distribution of free books and by holding reading events. Children’s Literacy Adds Potential is passionate that each child, regardless of ethnicity, religion, social, or income status, has a chance to succeed.

https://www.clapforbooks.org/

Children’s Reading Alliance

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Mission: Children’s Reading Alliance ​strives for the expansion of children’s literacy across Doña Ana County by supporting programs designed to provide books accessible for families in an effort to prompt daily reading in the home.

https://www.childrensreadingalliance.org/

Charleston Hope

Charleston, South Carolina

Mission: Charleston Hope enhances school culture and climate in high-poverty Title 1 schools by building on the strengths of students, teachers, and leaders. Vision: One day, all schools will be a place where every student can thrive.

https://charlestonhope.org/

Christmas House

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mission: At Christmas House, thousands of new toys, books, and new warm coats are assembled and beautifully displayed for a one-day "shopping" event. Parents and guardians are invited to personally select the perfect gifts for their children.

https://www.chslchristmashouse.org/

Deep Center

Savannah, Georgia

Mission: Deep Center’s mission is to empower Savannah’s young people to thrive as learners, community leaders, and agents of change.

https://www.deepcenter.org/

DrawChange

Atlanta, Georgia

Mission: To empower impoverished children through the use of art therapy based programming.

https://www.drawchange.org/

Education Partnership

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mission: The Education Partnership provides school supplies to students and their teachers in low-income schools in Southwestern PA.

https://theeducationpartnership.org/

EdVenture Children’s Museum

Columbia, South Carolina

Mission: EdVenture’s mission is to inspire children, youth, and the adults who care about them to experience the joy of learning as individuals, as families, and as a community.

https://www.edventure.org/

First Gen Success

Charlotte, North Carolina

Mission: First Gen Success offers a dynamic and ever-evolving program bridging the generational gap and lessening the constant economic disparities for high school girls who are on the path to be first-generation college students.

https://www.firstgensuccess.org/

Foster the Love

Broussard, Louisiana

Mission: The mission of Foster the Love is to encourage and support foster and adoptive families; to empower and support children, youth and families affected by trauma; and to educate the community on the needs of the foster system.

https://www.fosterthelovela.org

Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF)

Nashville, Tennesee

Mission: The mission of Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) is to strengthen early literacy in Tennessee by acting as a thought leader, advisor and catalyst to support and sustain early literacy programs for children statewide.

https://governorsfoundation.org/

Hope at Hand

Jacksonville, Florida

Mission: Hope at Hand brings poetry sessions to vulnerable and at-risk youth, primarily in non-traditional educational environments. Using creativity, language, art, and therapeutic approaches, we offer poetic healing for children and teens.

https://www.hopeathand.org/

Hope Center

Denver, Colorado

Mission: To match every child and adult to programs and services specific to their needs and requirements. In doing so, provide quality education and support services to children and adults regardless of their ability.

https://www.hopecenterinc.org/

Hands to Love

Gainesville, Florida

Mission: ​Hands to Love is an organization that supports children with upper limb differences and their families through our annual Hand Camp. We provide a casual, caring environment to offer campers adaptive solutions for routine and recreational activities.

https://www.handstolove.org/

Hands-on Buncombe

Hendersonville, North Carolina

Mission: Hands-On Buncombe provides children and families with “hands-on” educational exhibits and science programs that stimulate the imagination and motivate learning in a fun, safe environment.

https://www.handsonwnc.org/

Healing Gardens of St. Ambrose

Raleigh, North Carolina

Mission: The Healing Gardens at St. Ambrose’s mission is to provide wellness programming grounded in the metaphors of gardening and nature for underserved members of the community.

https://gardenhealingstambrose.my.canva.site/

Happy Wheels

Lexington, South Carolina

Mission: Happy Wheels strives to put smiles on the faces of hospitalized children in South Carolina.

https://www.happywheelsinc.org/

Ideas for Us

Orlando, Florida

Mission: Our vision is to contribute to a future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature and in peace with one another.https://ideasforus.org/

“I Have a Dream” Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Mission: The “I Have a Dream” Foundation provides long-term support to youth living in under-resourced communities to enable them to achieve their full potential.

https://www.ihadla.org/

KID smART

New Orleans, Louisiana

Mission: To engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts.

https://www.kidsmart.org/

Kids Crossing

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission: Our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care to those children entrusted to them.

https://www.kidscrossing.com/

Lambert House

Seattle, Washington

Mission: Lambert House empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth through the development of leadership, social, and life skills.

https://www.lamberthouse.org/

Lead to Read

Kansas City, Missouri

Mission: To support the social, emotional and reading skills that are foundational for student success by advancing our literacy platform and mobilizing community volunteers.

https://www.leadtoreadkc.org/

Let’s Get Ready

New York City, New York

Mission: The core of Let’s Get Ready’s mission is creating educational equity and equality.

https://www.letsgetready.org/

Literacy Together

Asheville, North Carolina

Mission: Literacy Together's mission is to transform lives and communities through the power of literacy.

https://lit-together.org/

Little Free Library

Nationwide

Mission: The Little Free Library mission is to be a catalyst for building community, inspiring readers, and expanding book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Libraries.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/

Little Read Wagon

Norman, Oklahoma

Mission: Little Read Wagon aims to help close the literacy gap created by poverty and to share a love for books and reading with marginalized populations.

https://www.littlereadwagonok.com/

Live Again Fresno

Sacramento, California

Mission: Live Again Fresno serves children and families living in the Addams and Parkway neighborhoods in Fresno by providing free after school programs and family services.

https://liveagainfresno.org/

Living Classrooms

Baltimore, Maryland

Mission: Living Classrooms strives to build strong, equitable, and sustainable communities through effective education, workforce, and health and wellness opportunities that address deeply-ingrained challenges, and we set high expectations for academic achievement, living-wage job placement, improved community health and safety, and increased constituent engagement.

https://livingclassrooms.org/

Love of Learning

Richmond, Virginia

Mission: To empower children and parents living in low-income homes through literacy initiatives.

https://loveoflearningrva.org/

Make Way for Books

Tucson, Arizona

Mission: The mission of Make Way for Books is to give all children in Southern Arizona the chance to read and succeed by providing proven programs to ensure our youngest children discover the joy of books, develop critical emergent literacy and language skills, and start school ready.

https://makewayforbooks.org/

Maryland Book Bank

Baltimore, Maryland

Mission: The Maryland Book Bank is a nonprofit organization committed to cultivating literacy in children from under-resourced neighborhoods by increasing the accessibility of books.

https://www.mdbookbank.org/

More Books in Children’s Hands

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission: More Books in Children's Hands was created with a simple mission -- to increase access to age-appropriate books to children in daycares, preschools, and kindergarten classrooms throughout the Colorado Springs area.

https://morebookscos.org/home

Nevada Kids Foundation

Sparks, Nevada

Mission: The Nevada Kids Foundation is a Children's Non Profit that provides essential items and resources to the struggling youth in our communities.

https://www.nevadakidsfoundation.org/

Note in the Pocket

Raleigh, North Carolina

Mission: Note in the Pocket provides quality clothing to impoverished and homeless children and families with dignity and love.

https://noteinthepocket.org/

Olivia’s House

York, Pennsylvania

Mission: The purpose of Olivia’s House is to facilitate healing through grief and loss education.

https://www.oliviashouse.org/

Oswego Book Mobile

Oswego, New York

Mission: Oswego Book Mobile aims to empower children to be readers! Every child in our community will have access to books at his or her independent reading level.

https://oswegobookmobile.com/

Page Ahead

Seattle, Washington

Mission: Page Ahead provides new books and develops reading activities that empower at-risk children.

https://pageahead.org/

Peak Education

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission: Peak Education disrupts the status quo by closing opportunity gaps in our community. We believe that every student deserves to reach for their full potential and that all willing learners can do so. We do this by working to enact change at multiple levels beyond the individual students that participate directly in our program.

https://www.peakedu.org/

PENCIL for Schools

Nashville, Tennessee

Mission: Linking community resources to Metro Nashville Public Schools to help young people achieve academic success and prepare for life.

https://pencilforschools.org/

Poe Center

Raleigh, North Carolina

Mission: The mission of the Poe Center for Health Education is to educate and empower North Carolina children, youth, and their families to make choices that increase positive health behaviors.

https://www.poehealth.org/

Promising Pages

Charlotte, North Carolina

Mission: The mission of Promising Pages is to collect new and donated books and share them with children living in the Charlotte Area Book Desert: those with few, if any, books at home. We work to create a culture of book sharing and ownership.

https://promising-pages.org

Raising a Reader/Black Child Development Institute

Charlotte, North Carolina

Mission: Raising A Reader, a national nonprofit organization partners with NBCDI and its Affiliate communities to implement an evidence-based, early literacy and family engagement program

https://www.nbcdi.org/affiliates/charlotte/raising-reader

Read2Succeed

Asheville, North Carolina

Mission: Read to Succeed’s mission is to close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners.

https://www.r2sasheville.org/

Read and Feed

Cary, North Carolina

Mission: The mission of Read and Feed is to strengthen literacy skills among under-served elementary school children by reading books aloud and providing meals to children in a nurturing environment.

https://readandfeed.org/get-involved/

Read a Book, Earn a Book

Charlotte, North Carolina

Mission: Read a Book, Earn a Book is a student-centered program offering one-on-one support to boost literacy in the Charlotte area. Each student chooses a book from a set of pre-selected titles. That book is then read cover to cover with tutor support and “earned” upon completion. It is a simple and successful program.

https://rbebtutoring.org/

Read to Me

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Mission: ​A region-wide, independent collaboration to encourage early childhood literacy through the distribution of new and used children’s books to schools and learning center in Albuquerque.

https://www.readtomeabqnetwork.org

Reading Quest

Norman, Oklahoma

Mission: Every child has the right to learn how to read. Reading Quest provides free structured literacy tutoring & social emotional support for hundreds of ​striving readers to promote equity through reading programs that work.

https://www.readingquestcenter.org

Reading is Fundamental

Los Angeles, California

Mission: To promote literacy and motivate children to read by providing new books to create home libraries for underserved children in Southern California.

https://www.rifsocal.org/

Reading is Fundamental Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia

Mission: Reading is Fundamental Pittsburgh is a children’s literacy organization that works to lessen the literacy and achievement gaps in neighborhoods of need in Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg.

https://www.rifpittsburgh.org/

ReadyKids!

Pensacola, Florida

Mission: Maximize children's potential through increased school readiness. Every student starts kindergarten ready to learn.

https://readykidsfl.org/

Ready, Set, Read!

Los Angeles, California

Mission: Providing Los Angeles families with an abundance of children’s books and support to lay the foundation for their children’s school readiness and lifelong learning.

https://www.readysetread.org/

Ready Readers

St. Louis, Missouri

Mission: Ready Readers expands literacy for young children in low-income communities through high-quality books, strong relationships, and literacy related experiences.

https://www.readyreaders.org/

REAL Program

Lynn, Massachusetts

Mission: The mission of the REAL Program is to improve childhood literacy in Lynn, MA, and provide support to students in the community.

https://www.therealprogram.org/

Saddle Up and Read

Wendell, North Carolina

Mission: Saddle Up And Read is on a mission to encourage youth to achieve literary excellence through equine activities.

https://www.saddleupandread.org/

Safe Passage

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mission: Safe Passage gives abused children a voice and enables the healing process by acting as the single source of contact for medical, investigative, and legal services.

https://www.safepassagecac.org/

Sanctuary on 8th Street

Jacksonville, Florida

Mission: To encourage and empower Jacksonville youth and families in need by ministering to their spiritual, physical, social, and intellectual needs.

https://sanctuaryon8th.org/

Shadow Project

Portland, Oregon

Mission: The Shadow Project is a nonprofit that offers school-based programs, proven to help K-8 students with learning challenges — like dyslexia, ADHD, autism and trauma — build skills for school and life success.

https://www.shadow-project.org/

Sharing Place

Salt Lake City, Utah

Mission: Since 1993, The Sharing Place has been fulfilling its mission to “provide a safe and caring environment for grieving children, teens, and their families to share their feelings while healing themselves.”

https://www.thesharingplace.org/

Shelter Kids

Salt Lake City, Utah

Mission: To provide supports, programming, and financial assistance to neglected and at-risk children and teens receiving services through the Salt Lake City Youth Services.

https://shelterkids.org/

SMART Reading

Portland, Oregon

Mission: SMART Reading helps young children become strong, confident readers by providing books and volunteer reading support.

https://smartreading.org/

Spread the Word Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

Mission: Spread the Word Nevada is dedicated to advancing childhood literacy within low-income communities by changing lives one book at a time.

https://spreadthewordnevada.org/

Start the Adventure in Reading

New Orleans, Louisiana

Mission: STAIR’s mission has been to improve the reading skills and self-esteem of lower elementary school students.

https://www.stairnola.org/

STEM Library Lab

New Orleans, Louisiana

Mission: Fostering high-quality active learning by providing teachers and students with access to equipment and support to drive academic success.

https://stemlibrarylab.org/

Tree House Books

Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia

Mission: At Tree House Books, our vision is that every child in Philadelphia has access to books, and every opportunity to pursue their dreams.

https://www.treehousebooks.org/

Time Out Youth

Charlotte, North Carolina

Mission: Time Out Youth supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth by offering vital programs, fostering unconditional acceptance, and creating safe spaces for self-expression through leadership, community support and advocacy.

https://www.timeoutyouth.org/

The Carrying Place

Cary, North Carolina

Mission: The Carying Place teaches homeless, working families with children, life skills for attaining independent living while providing short-term housing and support services to address their individual needs.

https://www.thecaryingplace.org/

The Women’s Center

Raleigh, North Carolina

Mission: The Women’s Center serves marginalized women with histories of severe and persistent mental health, sexual assault, violence, and trauma

https://www.wcwc.org/

Tools4Schools

Cary, North Carolina

Mission: WakeEd Partnership’s Tools4Schools store provides free classroom supplies for nearly 11,000 teachers in North Carolina’s largest school district to ensure that all teachers and students in the Wake County Public School System have the supplies they need to focus on learning.

https://www.wakeed.org/tools4schools/

Turning the Page

Washington, D.C.

Mission: Turning the Page links public schools, families and our community so that, together, we can ensure students receive valuable educational resources and a high-quality public education.

https://turningthepage.org/

Wake Up and Read

Raleigh, North Carolina

Mission: Wake Up and Read strives to engage and educate our community about the importance of childhood literacy and to increase access to literacy resources and opportunities for all children.

https://wakeupandread.org/

Watson Children Center

Missoula, Montana

Mission: To provide safety, nurturing, and stability to children & families through quality services and trauma-informed care.

https://www.watsonchildrensshelter.org/

Where Love Grows

Tampa, Florida

Mission: Where Love Grows maintains a zero tolerance for childhood hunger. Proper nourishment should never be denied to any child. We achieve these goals through our family dinner night events and cooking programs, looking to break the cycle of hunger for children and their families in Tampa.

https://wherelovegrows.org/

Zach’s Toy Chest

Holly Springs, North Carolina

Mission: Zach’s Toy Chest donates new toys, books, and more to help boost the spirits of pediatric patients ages 0 to 18.

https://zachstoychest.org/