THE MARYLAND BOOK BANK INC
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Mission Statement
The Maryland Book Bank is a nonprofit organization committed to cultivating literacy in children from under-resourced neighborhoods.
About This Cause
The Maryland Book Bank cultivates literacy in under-served neighborhoods by increasing access to quality books in homes, classrooms, and community settings. Strong partnerships help us to reach the students most in need of support to strengthen their reading abilities and habits. ● Our two Bookmobiles travel to community events and festivals and summer camps inviting 3,000 children to board annually and select 5 books to take home and keep forever. The Bookmobile visits all 34 Baltimore City rec centers in the summer. ● The Home Library Project provides a home library of 20 books per year to 10,000 students in grades Pre K-2nd in 50 Baltimore City schools through two annual visits to their schools. ● Community Memberships allow individuals, teachers, organizations, and families to browse our warehouse and select books for their home, program, and classroom libraries. We expect at least 1,700 members to visit the Book Bank per year, taking at least 200,000 books with them. ● The Book Bank runs an e-commerce business, selling donated books for adult readers on Amazon to fund our children’s programming. ● The Book Bank is the lead tenant of the Baltimore Warehouse Collaborative, a collaborative space for resource distribution nonprofits. Since 2014, we've distributed nearly 2 million books into the community through partnerships with more than 800 schools, child care centers, and community-based organizations. A small sample of current partners includes the Baltimore City Child Care Resource Center, Cardinal Shehan School, and Backpacks for Homeless Kids. Our warehouse operation enables us to receive truckloads of 30,000 free or heavily discounted children’s books at a time.