Authors – Is there a low income school near you who could benefit from getting a few books donated by you?
When I started as a middle school media specialist after 10 years in an elementary school, one of the biggest adjustments was the lack of money for new books. I went from a fairly large school to a much smaller one and my budget was practically non-existent. After a frustrating few years, I decided I had to find some money that was mine alone and started going after grants.
Being in a low-income school has its advantages in getting grants, and I was very fortunate one year to receive $3,000 to buy nonfiction books from Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the next year to receive $5000 from the Laura Bush Foundation. Both of these organizations are very generous to schools that serve under-privileged children and have a fairly easy grant proposal process.
I was excited to weed out and replace many of the tattered copies on my shelves, but…
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That’s a great idea! We had a library at school and by the time I finished school I’d read all of the books at least once. Public libraries are very low cost here but living in the boonies made the school library really valuable to us.
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I think Libraries are one of the most undervalued services we have Marietta 🐵
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They are definitely!
Can you imagine growing up without having the chance to read and discover all those worlds hidden in books?!
(Psst! I am Bianca 🙂 Sorry! It is a little complicated in our shared blog hippy commune)
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LOLOL Sorry Bianca – A world without libraries or books would be a dismal place indeed – we’d have to wait for the Minstrels, Acting Troupes and Storytellers to visit instead – like they used to do in ages past 🐵
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In ages past people sat together and told each other stories. Nowadays people would sit in front of TV even more consuming programmes that mostly are designed to kill any healthy brain cell left
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Agreed Bianca – until the TVs break down and no one can fix them because there are no books to explain how to fix them, or, there are books, but there’s no one left who knows how to read them 😱😱😱
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I’ll celebrate the day TVs die 🙂
And there will always be dinosaurs like us who like to read or even *gasp* write! 😉
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👍😄😄😄
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