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How You Can Help in the Time You Have

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Under 30 minutes:
  • Love coffee?!  We'd love if you'd post our "Give a Book. Build a Future" flyer for us at your favorite coffee place. (Download at the bottom of this page.)
  • Tell your friends, your family and your neighbors that we are THE place where they can donate books in Chicago. Just shoot an email to booksfirst01@gmail.com for drop-off details.
  • Get the word out by friending us on our Facebook page and follow us so our posts appear on your page. 
  • If you know anyone in the media…a reporter, a stringer, a columnist…tell them about us.

An hour or two:

  • Engage your kids in cleaning out their bookshelves of gently loved, but no longer read books. We’ll send them our BooksFirst! thank you card to hang on the family fridge.
  • Instead of gifts, ask birthday party attendees to bring gently loved books. We’ll be happy to send each child a BooksFirst! thank you card (yeah, one fewer thank you card for you to write!)
  • Become a BooksFirst Transport Angel. Angels pick up and deliver books to our recipient school.

A few days:

  • Hold a book drive for BooksFirst! at your school. We can give you a flyer and a guide based upon prior successful book drives.

A few weeks:

  • Become a BooksFirst! donor school. We collect books for schools with 15% or more homeless kids. These kids need books, backpacks, school supplies. We’ll take the gently loved ones your school no longer needs and give them new homes.

A year or more:

  • Become a BooksFirst! drop off site. We currently have four drop off sites on Chicago's Northside. We can never have too many. This is a substantial commitment…it is seldom convenient, frequently grubby and always unpaid. Yet, if kids who most need them going without books keeps you up at night, the rewards are incalculable. 

Call BooksFirst HQ at 773-206-5626​ or email us at booksfirst01@gmail.com.
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