Books allow us to slip our boundaries and wander the world. Most of us hesitate to throw a book into the trash, even a cheap paperback, let alone the children's book collections that we have built with love and memories. Now there is a place for our books. BookEnds is a simple program that works. We recycle quality children's books, and donate them to qualified recipient organizations, putting them into the hands of needy children to help them learn to read.
BookEnds then acts as a facilitator to the developing libraries.
We link literacy organizations, children's book publishers, service organizations and the corporate community to focus their resources on the developing libraries. BookEnds recipients include non-profit children's organizations, early literacy programs. Boys and Girls Clubs, and intervention programs that serve at-risk youth. Overseen by student volunteers and their school's service organizations, BookEnds BookDrives gather thousands of quality used books for underadvantaged schools and children's groups. These drives empower students as they learn through community involvement - collecting, sorting, and finally delivering the books to qualified recipient organizations, hopefully planting the seeds to sow tomorrow's civic leaders.