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Access Books Bay Area
Access Books Bay Area
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About this organization
Mission
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read.
About
We provide books to low-income schools where at least 80 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Since 1999, Access Books in Southern California has donated more than a million books, and each year, approximately 18,000 pre-kindergarten through middle school-aged children participate in our program. Access Books Bay Area is now bringing this important work to the schools of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed library space that invites students to spend time and read. we believe a quality school library can change a child's life. access books bay area works to remediate the lack of funding for school libraries in california by providing books, furnishings, facility upgrades, and the coaching of a credentialed school librarian to schools where approx. 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. we also partner with local service organizations to improve classroom libraries with donated books.
- Revenue reported was $54,955.
- Expenses reported were $44,298.
- Other expenses reported $706.
- The non-profit reported a excess or deficit for $10,657.
- Other compensation reported was $0.
- Contributions, gifts, and grants reported were $54,955.
- The non-profit filed a copy of the returns in CA.
Accomplishments
- Access books bay area restocked and renovated three school libraries in high poverty schools in 2019, ben painter elementary and hubbard elementary in the alum rock school district of east san jose, and los robles mcnair academy in east palo alto. this included purchasing new books, furniture and rugs for the library, repainting the walls and painting colorful reading-related murals and providing the materials to do so, and coordinating service organization partners to provide donated books for the classroom libraries and volunteers to help with painting, new book processing, and used book processing and sorting. Expenses $41,938.
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