BRING ME A BOOK FOUNDATION
330 Twin Dolphin Drive 101, Redwood City, CA 94065

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Bring Me A Book Foundation's mission is to strengthen the language and literacy skills of under-served children ages 0 to 8 by providing books in homes and school.

Library of Congress Literacy AwardBring Me A Book was selected by the Library of Congress 2019 Literacy Awards Program as a Best Practice Honoree. This award recognizes innovative methods and effective practices in promoting literacy and a love of reading. Bring Me A Book was among 15 organizations honored by the worlds largest library for best practices in literacy promotion. National Book Selection CommitteeIn 2019 Bring Me A Book began the formation of a National Book Selection Committee with experts in childrens literature to offer book recommendations for our book collections. Collections for infants, toddlers and preschoolers are found on the Bring Me A Book website for use by Book Buddies, families and teachers.Service Club Speaker Book ProgramThe Speaker Appreciation program was developed for service clubs as a means of recognizing guest speakers at their regular meetings. Organizations order books from Bring Me A Book for children aged pre-school through third grade. The club asks the guest speakers to sign a bookplate that identifies the organization and explains that the book will be given to children at under-resourced sites such as classrooms, clinic waiting rooms, hospitals, or any public place that children frequent with their parents.Book BuddiesThe Book Buddy program expanded to 41 classrooms serving 672 preschool, transitional Kindergarten, Kindergarten and first grade students. Classrooms are low-income, including Head Start, state funded Child Development Centers, community-based nonprofit preschools and Title I schools. The 672 students were visited 16 times during the year by their trained Book Buddy, where they engaged in a read aloud time with learning extension activities. The Book Buddy gifted the hardcover book to the classroom library after each of the 16 visits. A total of 672 books were donated to the classroom libraries. Each of the students received 2 hardcover books in English to take and keep at home. (1,112 books) Students whose parents are learning English received an additional 2 books in Spanish. (351 books)Book CubbiesBook cubbies are distributed through the Family Book Cubby Workshops. The partners in these events are the preschools/schools that have Book Buddies or other nonprofits that serve low-income communities and foster children. A total of 19 Family Book Cubby Workshops were held. Families painted and decorated a cubby for each child, parents attended a workshop on the importance of reading aloud, and each child received 2-3 new hardcover books in English and/or Spanish. A total of 418 cubbies were distributed. General Program A total of 6,898 books were distributed throughout the year, including Book Buddies, Book Cubby workshops and in general book donations to several nonprofit groups including teen mother programs, low income clinic waiting rooms, and foster youth. We provided bookshelves to medical clinics and low-income classrooms. Our volunteers logged 4,327 hours.

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