ALNF believes that literacy and numeracy skills are a critical element in enabling all people to fulfil their dreams. Without these skills individuals, families and whole communities are powerless in realising their full potential.

ALNF teaches marginalised Australians how to read and write. ALNF also supports a broad range of individuals (teachers, carers, healthcare workers, community workers, volunteers) in building on their skills to develop good literacy practices in their families and communities.

ALNF’s approaches, which are tailored to the specific needs of individual groups and communities, are uniquely effective – and efficient – in delivering observable outcomes and creating real impact.

Send or Ship books direct to:
Got Books Inc.
Attn: Donations
104 Glenn Street, Suite 1
Rear of building: Docks A-D
Lawrence, MA 01843
Phone: 978.327.7600

Don't forget to add your message
regarding SFA with your donation.

• Our mission at Got Books is to find new uses for used books people no longer know what to do with or have use for.
• We are dedicated to finding good homes for your books, CDs, DVDs and videos, to reuse them, and to keep books out of the trash.
• We give items free to libraries, schools, children's causes and any other group in need.
• We have a program that gets teachers free books for their classrooms.
• For 2008, we have pledged to send at least 25,000 books overseas to the troops.
• We sell them at our weekly Charity Book Sale where 50% of profits go to our nonprofit partners and we sell them online.
• At the end of the day, no books EVER get thrown out or go to waste!

The primary function of Adult Reading Assistance Scheme is to assist self-motivated adults with reading, writing, numeracy and other essential learning; in order to empower them, so that they are able to achieve independent growth and development, to reach their own goals and to fulfill their own potentials.

To submit e-book titles to WPL
Attach a copy of your e-book, cover image and book blurb in an e-mail and send it to:

info@worldlibrary.net

WPL has dedicated an impressive page on their website for shadow forest author donations.
http://worldlibrary.net/ShadowForestAuthors.htm

Send or Ship books direct to:
Read Between The Bars
c/o Daily Planet Publishing
P.O. Box 1589,
Tucson, AZ 85702-1589

Read Between the bars, Tucson's books to prisoners program.
A Book Can Give Hope.
Read Between The Bars is a books to prisoners collective based in sunny Tucson, Arizona. We send free books to prisoners in Arizona. We have donated over 400 books to the Pinal County Jail library, and we have sent 200 books to individual prisoners fulfilling their requests.
We are seeking donations and opportunities for further fundraising so that we can expand our core mission of improving prisoner's lives by exposing them to education, new ideas, or just the escape of a good story.
For years, programs throughout the nation have been distributing books, free of charge, to prisoners. A book can change the life of a prisoner: it can give an escape from the tedium of prison life, teach new skills, and open up interests in fields that can benefit the prisoner and society at large.

What WPBP accept
Paperback books only
• Fiction
• Self-help
• Sci-fi/Fantasy
• Meditation
• Health
• Mystery and Thrillers
• Romance

Send or Ship books direct to:
The Women’s Prison Book Project
c/o Arise Bookstore
2441 Lyndale Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405

Since 1994, the Women’s Prison Book Project (WPBP) has provided women and transgender –identified persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, GED, etc.) to fiction, politics, history, and women’s health. We are an all volunteer, grassroots organization. We seek to build connections with those behind the walls, and to educate those of us on the outside about the realities of prison and the justice system.

Of the more than two million people confined in U.S. prisons and jails, over 150,000 are women. Eighty percent of these women are there for non–violent crimes, such as shoplifting, prostitution, drug related convictions, and fraud. Of the women convicted of violent crimes, the vast majority were convicted for defending themselves or their children from abuse. More than 1/2 of all women in prison are women of color, and two–thirds of women in prison have at least one child under eighteen. Most of these mothers had primary custody of their children before going to prison.

These facts mean that women in prison have specific needs for particular kinds of information: material on families, children, women's self–help, women's health, and legal aid pertaining to women who fight back against their abusers. There are also many lesbian, bisexual, and transgender prisoners who often have trouble obtaining information that is relevant to their lives. As new prisons are built to warehouse the growing number of incarcerated people in the U.S., the meager resources previously available to prisoners are being cut or limited to only a few. WPBP is one place where women/transgender persons in prison can get information that is often unavailable from any other source. WPBP works to support prisoners; and through that solidarity work to empower prisoners themselves and build connections through prison walls.

We recognize that prisons and the entire “justice” system are about controlling and suppressing the lives/movements of the poor, women, and all people of color. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and that is no accident.We urge all progressive people to include prison issues as an integral part of the struggle for sweeping social change. In keeping with this view we also acknowledge that as activists on the outside it is vital to provide whatever material support that WPBP can to women political prisoners and prisoners of war in U.S. prisons and jails.

Mission Australia has different branches enabling donations to be sent to individual states.

Addresses

What they accept.

Jacqueline Fiddian Mission Australia Pham 55 Elizabeth Street, Launceston TAS 7250 Australia

New and Used Books Murder mystery, Sci-Fi, Thrillers, Romance, Biographies.

Cyndi Knights Mission Australia LLNP, 9 Adelaide Street, Maryborough QLD 4650. Australia

New and Used Books Text books, Reference, Comedy, Romance, EXCEPT Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Mystery/Thriller

Jillian Fritz Mission Australia NEIS, Shop 17 Bell Street Mall, Toowoomba QLD 4350 Australia

New and Used Books Business- informative, inspiring. Self help - motivational.

Suzana Hanic Mission Australia LLNP 2 McLaren Pde, Port Adelaide SA 5015 Australia

New Preferred Non Fiction

Jennifer Webb Mission Australia LLNP 175 Collins Street Hobart TAS 7000 Australia

New and Used Books Fiction, Non fiction. Beginner level for non english speakers.

Joyce Langmaid Mission Australia 5-7 Rooke Street Devonport Tas 7310 Australia

New and Used Books Children's books aged 0-5, Self Help, Fiction, Cooking books.

Denise Brazendale Mission Australia Chigwell House PO Box 225 Glenorchy Tas 7010 Australia

New and Used Books Children's books for children aged 0-12, Adult books on self esteem, positive affirmation, Self Help, Cook books, Books on mental health and drug addiction etc.

Jennifer Webb Language Literacy and Numeracy Program Suite 3 level 1 175 Collins Street Hobart TAS 7000 Australia

New and Used Books A wide variety of genres will be accepted.

Astra Howard Mission Australia Centre 19 Denham Street Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Australia

New and Used Books Philosophy, art, photography, cooking, film, fitness, reference materials, dictionaries, encyclopaedias etc.

Mission Australia is a national non-denominational Christian community service organisation that has been transforming the lives of Australians in need for almost 150 years.

We operate more than 450 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia – in every state and territory.

This year we assisted more than 330,000 people.

We are committed to creating a fairer Australia by eliminating disadvantage and transforming lives. Through our programs and services, we seek to eradicate homelessness, strengthen families and empower youth. We deliver entry level training and help unemployed people find permanent work.

Our founding purpose
Inspired by Jesus Christ, Mission Australia exists to meet human need and to spread the knowledge of the love of God.

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. So, we also ought to lay down our lives for others.” (1 John 3:16)

Our vision is to see a fairer Australia by enabling people in need to find pathways to a better life.
Walking alongside those in need, we help people discover:
• Pathways to strong families and healthy, happy children
• Pathways through a successful youth
• Pathways away from homelessness
• Pathways to skills and qualifications
• Pathways to sustainable employment.

Our core values
All Mission Australia staff work within our core values to help realise our vision. These values are:

Compassion: We are committed to being sensitive, understanding and caring in our service of each other and all people.

Integrity: We are committed to being honest, accountable, transparent and just in all our work and relationships.

Respect: We are committed to treating each person as we expect to be treated, offering love, acceptance and a voice of support in the face of life’s challenges.

Perseverance: We are committed to being the very best we can be, finding effective, creative and environmentally responsible ways to fulfil our mission.

Celebration: We are committed to recognising and celebrating the efforts and achievements of our staff, supporters and the people we help.

What PBP accept.
Most non-fiction and fiction in new or very good condition.

The following subjects and genres are in constant demand:

African-American studies, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and works about or by Martin Luther King, Jr. Native American studies, Mexican, Aztec, and Mayan studies, Puerto Rican studies, English dictionaries, thesauruses, and foreign language dictionaries, GED Prep, Spanish/English dictionaries and books in Spanish, How to start a small business.
Jailhouse lawyer legal materials, Health especially HIV and Hepatitis C, Gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender studies
Trades (i.e. woodworking, automotive, etc.)
Spirituality & Religion - especially Bible concordances & dictionaries, Islam and non-mainstream religions such as Wicca, Paganism, Buddhism, New Age, etc.
History, Psychology and philosophy
Secret societies and the occult (e.g., Masons, Rosicrucian Order, extra terrestrials, etc.)
Mysteries, Westerns.

Send or Ship books direct to:
Prison Book Program
c/o Lucy Parsons Bookstore
1306 Hancock Street, Suite 100
Quincy, MA 02169
USA

Prison Book Program provides prisoners with free reading materials. With prisoners isolated in facilities that have chronically insufficient educational opportunities, we provide these materials to improve the lives and communities of prisoners to greatly reduce the likelihood of their return to the prison system.

Just one of many 'Thank You's' from a PBP Book Recipient.
I will probably leave prison in the next 2-3 months. I certainly thank you for the many wonderful and highly enlightening books you folks were so kind and generous to send me. I doubt I'll ever get to Boston to meet and thank you personally & properly, but know this for certain, I'll take with me the kindness & the memory you wonderful folks gave to me. I will take that with that will be the knowledge insight & thirst for gnosis that was ignited & well fueled from and through all those wonderful book you sent to me.
- a prisoner from Safford, AZ

What do BTP accept?
Good condition, new and used books.
Genres: fiction: horror, sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, western, urban 'gangsta', classics.
non-fiction: almost anything. Most needed: Spanish language texts, art, black studies, chicano/latino studies, anarchism, dictionaries, spanish-english dictionaries.

Older Native American starts school To the staff of Books to Prisoners: Received the books you sent and was really pleased with them. Thank you. I could not wait to get back to my cell. I will tell you a little about myself. I am a mixed breed ('Apache-Cherokee and Scotch') born in 1925 during the great depression. I dropped out of school and went to work with my father to help support our family. All my life I have been what the round eyes have called a stupid redskin, and I resented it. Now that I am in the twilight of my life, I have gone on and am getting an education. In September I will start my first quarter of college. I catch a lot of ribbing about it, but this is something I want. Even though I will never live to get out of prison, at least I can do something constructive with the time left. Thank you for the books. They will be put to good use. --Grey Fox, Ohio

 

Send or Ship books direct to:
Books To Prisoners
92 Pike St Box 'A'
Seattle WA 98101.
U.S.A

If you are wanting to send more than one box of books, email BTP at bookstoprisoners@cs.com to confirm space.

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Mission statement:
Books To Prisoners (BTP) is a Northwest-based nonprofit all-volunteer organization established in the early 1970s, that provides free books to prisoners in the United States. As government budgets are cut for prison programs that encourage literacy and education, and prison population increase dramatically, BTP makes a stand for effecting social change from the inside out.

BTP believes that books are tools for learning and opening minds to new ideas and possibilities. By sending books to prisoners, we hope to foster a love of reading, and encourage the pursuit of knowledge, empowerment, and self-improvement. BTP sends books at the request of prisoners on subjects including race/ethnicity/sexual orientation studies, history, politics, dictionaries/thesauruses, legal materials, structured educational materials, and many others. We do this at no cost to the prisoner because we understand that lack of funds should not be a barrier to education.

Education and literacy are remarkably low amongst prisoners, and prison library programs are being cut back in many prisons. Many prisons are also cutting back law library resources, one of the few ways many prisoners are able to access legal information. Likewise, many prisoners are allowed only a few hours each day, sometimes only one hour, to socialize or be involved in recreation. Many spend endless hours alone without access to creative outlets. BTP sends hundreds of books each month: educational materials, legal resources, as well as fiction. These books help prisoners learn and expand their horizons.

BTP also positively affects the broader community. In attracting mainstream volunteers/donors, and holding occasional benefits, BTP raises community awareness of the humanity and conditions of prisoners. BTP works collaboratively with University student groups, High School community service projects, church groups, and court-ordered offenders.

What do MOSI accept?
Good condition, new and used books.
Genres: All

Utilize books to promote literacy worldwide.
Identify with children from helpless circumstances and contribute to their confidence enhancement.

Support children in active schooling by providing love-filled backpacks.

Empower children from rural areas across the globe.

Project 1
Backpack Project serves school-age bookworms from diverse backgrounds. It offers them backpacks filled with timeless books, journals, as well an assortment of school supplies. By bestowing theselove-filled backpacks, we take aim to provide what is most essential to their welfare, hope for brighter tomorrows.

Do you know an exceptional bookworm deserving of a backpack? If so, refer them to us today. We, the staff of My One School Inc., love bookworms, and will work diligently to fulfill all the requests received.

Send or Ship books direct to:
My One School Inc.
P.O. Box 195591
Winter Springs FL
U.S.A

If you live in the Orlando area, please contact us to schedule a pick up. Ph - 32719-5591

Mission statement:
Mother Teresa once wrote, “There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”

Each year in America, millions of books are destroyed, shredded, burned and thrown away. Equally, millions of children will never know the joy of owning a book. In Africa, the book famine is a harsh reality. Throughout the continent, five or six children share one book. Empty library shelves, are a steady reminder of Africa’s hunger for education. In Haiti, nearly fifty percent of the population remains illiterate and Creole literature scarce. In India, child labor is widespread as many parents are financially incapable of educating their children. In Kosova, the price of a Western medicine book is equal to the monthly salary of a doctor. And, our soldiers across the globe, sailors, marines and airmen carry on without access to books or any reading materials. In general, over eight-hundred-million people remain illiterate in today’s world, a figure likely to remain unaffected if current developments continue.

Thus, the staff of My One School Inc. strives make use of those books others are inclined to dispose, so others may live well. We believe that there is no better gift to a child, than the gift of education. Furthermore, we believe that money isn’t everything. One mustn’t feel the need to give money in order to help. Here, everyone is able to give. Every single individual, company, library, trust or foundation, can stumble upon a book, or a few, and contribute to our cause. This also means, YOU! We recognize that we all have books we have read once, but never will again, books that remain unopened, or those purposeless ones collecting dust in our shelves.

Going back to Mother Teresa who said, “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

DONATE A BOOK TODAY

What do BTP Olympia accept?
New and used books from alll genres.
Much need of dictionaries, spanish-english dictionaries and language workbooks.

Send or Ship books direct to:
BTP Olympia
P.O. Box 912
Olympia WA, 97597
USA

Books to Prisoners Olympia works to offset the dehumanizing effects of incarceration by sending quality used books free of charge to prisoners all over. We are entirely operated by volunteers, our library entirely stocked by donated books.

We’ve developed systems for everything from accounting to how best to categorize books on our shelves. Core volunteers take shifts as “keyholders” each week where they open and close the space for volunteers, and take on various extra organizing responsibilities. Some of these keyholding project organizers have been Jacob, Max, Alex Becker, JR, Laurel, and Emily. Many other volunteers have filled and wrapped requests, sought out & brought in new donations, worked to fundraise, sensibly organized the bookshelves, built new bookshelves, started the dumpster values $1 bin (an ongoing fundraiser), helped to build this website, and taken on numerous other tasks related to getting quality reading material out to prisoners requesting it.

After 12 years, Books to Prisoners Olympia still maintains a relationship with Books to Prisoners Seattle. Together with satellite organizations in Bellingham and Portland, we’ve managed in 2007 to “catch up” on letters! (Meaning, we are able to set to work filling a request when it arrives instead of adding it to the bottom of a stack. when an inmate requests books in January, they will likely get a package in January!) This is an accomplishment most prison book projects dream of and work years to attain.

See our history page at - http://btpolympia.org/history

BTP Olympia began in 1996 when Long Hair David, above, started a prison book project.

What do Education Aid accept?
Textbooks, general interest subjects and fiction are needed.

Books should not be older than 10 years. Exceptions in specific cases, please check.

If possible, send us a list giving titles and years of publication and quantities.

Books should not be torn, with students' markings or with pages missing.

Encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books are accepted.

Not Required - Newspapers, old directories, pamphlets, reports, sexual material and any material which is specific to UK, such as taxation and Govt. statistics.

All material should be FIRMLY packed in cardboard boxes and sealed with tape. Mark each box as 'Education Aid'. Loose books in plastic bags or tied with strings are not accepted. Avoid using too large boxes so that they do not become too heavy to handle. Photo copy paper boxes A4/A3 size or similar may be used.

We would also appreciate it if you can kindly help with the delivery of material, if possible. We are a small charity with limited resources. If you can deliver, please make prior arrangements by calling us. Do not send heavy parcels to our P.O.Box address. Deliveries can be sent by prior arangement to the warehouse located in London.

Send or Ship books direct to:
To make delivery arrangements please call
Tel. 0208 204 5070

Do not send heavy parcels to our P.O.Box address. Deliveries can be sent by prior arangement to the warehouse located in London.
E-mail us for location
educationaid@pfl.uk.net