Access Books
This organization has already been registered
Someone in your organization has already registered and setup an account. would you like to join their team?Profile owner : m****n@a*********s.n*t
Mission Statement
Our mission is to provide quality, high-interest books to school, classroom and community libraries in the greater Southern California area.
About This Cause
We provide books to inner-city schools where at least 90 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 has donated more than a million books in Southern California, and each year, approximately 18,000 pre-kindergarten through middle school-aged children participate in our program. For the past 35 years, California has ranked near the last in the country for school library funding. This has resulted in a limited number of books per children in schools, a reduced number of librarians and, in come cases, no operating school library. In the absence of poverty, the quality of the school library is the best predictor of reading scores. There is a huge disparity among children in access to books. Affluent children have more books at home, better public libraries and, often go to schools with better school and classroom libraries. In some cases, affluent children have access to more books in their home than poor children have in their home, public libraries, school and classroom library combined.