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May 6, 2008
Got Books? Don’t Throw Them Out—They’ll Pick Them Up!
Kids have books, lots of books, and they outgrow them as quickly as shoes. If you are like most people you can find those books stashed all over – on shelves, in toy boxes and just about anywhere they can be squirreled away. They gather dust, they get dumped all over the floor and they take up space! One solution is to donate your outgrown books to a group that will put them to good use. One such group is Got Books. Got Books supports the community by giving away books to teachers for classrooms, donating to schools, libraries, other groups in need or selling them in book sales or online. As Got Books has a focus on reuse and works to keep books out of the waste stream. Children can learn lessons both about the value of giving back and the importance of protecting the environment. Even donating a single book means it will find a new reader and that it is one less book that will end up in the trash. Have fun with your child imagining where their book might end up. Got Books makes it easy for you to donate - they’ll pick up books, CDs, DVDs video tapes and audio books at your home or you can drop them off at one of their many local donation containers. Don’t think this is limited to just the little ones either - you can donate all of your adult books, cookbooks, textbooks, and many of these will be used for their Books for Troops program. Once you’ve donated all of the books which are no longer age-appropriate for your kids, you may just have some free bookshelf space to fill. Each Friday and Saturday Got Books hosts a Charity Book Sale where there are over 50,000 items to choose from. The sale is held at their North Reading warehouse, located about ten minutes north of Boston. With all items retailing for just $1, it’s certainly worth the drive. :::Read About us on Mom and Dad's Guide:::
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April 27, 2008
Got Books Teams up with Danvers for Earth Day Event
Got Books has once again partnered with the town of Danvers for their annual Earth Day celebration. The two day event was held at the Town Hall over Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 and provided the opportunity for residents to recycle numerous items, including textiles, papers, and other goods. Got Books was on hand to collect books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, and videos from the many Danvers residents who showed up to the event. In total, Got Books was able to save over 12,000 books from the Danvers waste stream.
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April 26
, 2008
Gloucester Recycling Event a Success with Got Books
Got Books was on hand for Gloucester’s recycling drop-off day, held on Saturday, April 26. The event was geared toward the city’s residents and small business owners and allowed them to recycle and donate several kinds of items such as clothing, textiles, confidential papers, and home electronics. Got Books was present to collect donations of books, CDs, DVDs, audio books, and video tapes. Over 500 cars lined up at the event to donate items, and due to the success of the town-wide event, Got Books was able to collect more than 3,600 books.
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April
2, 2008
Support
the Troops at Local Book Sale
If you visit the Charity Book
Sale in North Reading this weekend, or any other weekend in April, you can
walk out with an armful of used books and the knowledge that you helped
support our local troops. The book sale, hosted weekly by local organization
Got Books, will benefit Local Heroes, a Wilmington-based nonprofit which
prepares and sends care packages to local soldiers stationed
overseas. Got Books will donate half of all profits from every book sale
in April directly to Local Heroes to pay for postage and supplies for each
package. Over the last forty months, Local Heroes has been able to donate
almost 6,000 care packages containing necessities as well as relative luxuries,
such as peanut butter or candy. Beyond this success, the goal of the group
is to donate a package to each and every one of our local troop members
during the next year to demonstrate appreciation for their service. The
Charity Book Sale is hosted at the Got Books warehouse on 35 Concord Street
in North Reading and is open every Friday & Saturday from 9:00AM to
4:00PM. All items, including used books, CDs, DVDs, videos, and audio books,
are sold for $1 apiece. There are over 50,000 new and used items to choose
from which are restocked weekly to ensure a fresh selection for shoppers.
The book sale is made possible by community members who donate used books
to the organization. For more information on the sale or to donate used
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March
27, 2008
Got
Books Raises Money for Salvation Army
Throughout the past year, Got
Books has raised $38,527 for the Salvation Army of Worcester, Massachusetts.
Through payment for collected items, Got Books has been able to contribute
these funds toward this socially active company which embraces the homeless,
uplifts the abused or abandoned, trains and mentors the disadvantaged, provides
character building programs for the youth, and assists the displaced and
the elderly. The life cycle of a single book donation is truly impressive
in these circumstances: the item is donated to the Salvation Army and then
bought by Got Books for resale or donation and ends up in the hands of a
new owner. In this cycle each donated book has been able to raise money
for the Salvation Army, allowed Got Books to fulfill its mission, raised
money for one of the Got Books nonprofit partners, and saved trash from
the landfill.
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March
20, 2008
Got
Books Receives a Letter from Walter Reed
Got Books received a formal
thank-you letter from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for donations
made earlier in the month to recovering soldiers staying at the facility.
The letter reads:
On behalf of the American Red Cross,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your generous
donation to Wounded Troops and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical
Center and other military treatment facilities. Injured troops continue
to receive the best medical care in the world in this facility. They
also receive comfort and a morale boost through donated items from supportive
Americans like you.
We appreciate your willingness to support our uniformed members in this
way and consider it a privilege to pass along your gift.
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March 15, 2008
Got
Books President meets State Senator
Got Books Founder and President
Bob Ticehurst recently attended a charity event at which he met State Senator
Scott P. Brown and his wife, local WCVB-TV news reporter Gail Huff. The
event was the 7th Annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner Dance hosted by the Ahern
Family Charitable Foundation, a Stoneham, MA-based nonprofit which raises
money and awareness for veterans past, present, and future who may be in
need of assistance. The AFCF was able to raise about $55,000 for the needs
of veterans and their families that evening. To date, the AFCF has raised
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March 12, 2008
Got
Books Donates Books in Iraq
Got Books has made a donation
of more than 600 good-condition kid's books to Iraqi children. |
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March 10, 2008
'Books
for Troops' Program Expands with Donations
Got Books has recently expanded
the mission of its 'Books for Troops' program by making a donation of high
quality used books to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington,
DC. Walter Reed is the United States Army's East coast medical center, serving
more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the
military. Donated books will be provided for soldiers in recovery and are
intended to provide enjoyment to those recuperating at the center. |
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March 8, 2008
Got
Books Donates over 1,000 Children's Books to New Orleans
Got Books has recently made a
donation of more than 1,000 children's books to the "Cable Cares"
initiative which will be used to replenish the book supply of the city of
New Orleans. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA)
will be hosting their annual cable industry national convention in the city
for the first time since it was struck by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
The program is intended to show appreciation for the city of New Orleans,
which has hosted nine NCTA conferences- more than any other city.
Got Books was informed about this
program from Comcast, a neighboring business in North Reading. This community
service venture will aid the many schools in the New Orleans area that
lost their libraries in the storm and will assist the region in its long-term
recovery from the devastation they faced in 2005. The program's goal is
to collect 15,000 new books to refill the bookshelves of establishments
in need. Donations will come from NCTA delegates as well as other groups
and companies, such as Got Books. Books will be given to the New Orleans
library system to divvy up between libraries and schools; some books will
go into their collections and some will be given to children to take home.
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March 7, 2008
Got
Books Gives 8,000+ Records and Videos to American Cancer Society
Got Books has made a donation
of more than 8,000 good-condition records and videotapes to the American
Cancer Society. The ACS will be selling the items to raise funds as well
as using the items during promotional and fundraising events for the group.
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March 3, 2008
Got
Books Donates $1,000 to Sylvan Learning Center
Got Books recently donated $1,000
to the Sylvan Learning Center's "Make the Grade" program. The
program is intended to inspire students to improve their grades and the
individual with the most improved grades or most compelling success story
will win a $1,000 scholarship for their college education, funded by Got
Books. Students can qualify for the scholarship in two ways: through S.A.T.
scores and through report card grades. Any student who produces a better
S.A.T. score in March 2008 from any other S.A.T. test in 2008 is automatically
entered in the scholarship drawing, as is any student who improves successive
report card grades in 2008. All entries must be in by April 20, 2008 to
qualify and all students who are entered will win a gift certificate from
Got Books to their weekly Charity Book Sale. The Sylvan Learning Center
is North America's leading provider of private tutoring for children in
grades pre-K-12. :::More
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February 31,
2008
Local
Student Scholarship Funds Increase in February
North Reading-based Citizens'
Scholarship Foundation raised $2,198 from the Got Books Charity Book Sale
in the month of February. CSF, a local chapter of the national organization
Dollars for Scholars, awards financial scholarships for North Reading students
who will be furthering their education beyond high school. They are one
of the four Charity Book Sale partners presently working with Got Books
for fundraising purposes. :::More on CSF::: |
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February 18,
2008
Joshua
Eaton Elementary Hosts Book Drive
The Joshua Eaton Elementary School
of Reading, MA, a local Got Books fundraising partner, recently held a two-week
long book drive at their school. The drive was styled as a friendly competition
between homerooms, with students and teachers rallying to collect as many
books as possible. One class was able to bring in over 800 books on their
own and the school as a whole gathered a total of over 7,000 books. These
items were then placed into the school's book donation container, gaining
them payment at their regular rate for books collected, and the winning
classroom was also rewarded with a pizza party. Do you have a container
at your school and you'd like to organize a book drive? :::Click
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January 31,
2008
Local
Heroes Raises Funds from January Book Sale
The benefiting partner for January
2008's Charity Book Sale was Wilmington-based organization Local Heroes.
The group was awarded $1,432.16 for sales conducted during this month. Local
Heroes is a nonprofit group which sends care packages to local servicemen
and women stationed overseas and is one of the four rotating book sale partners
currently fundraising with Got Books. :::More
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January 20,
2008
Autographed
Books Donated by Dean Koontz
Author Dean Koontz recently made
a donation of 50 boxes of books to Got Books. Boxes were full of brand new
autographed copies of five of Koontz's novels, including "False Memory,"
"Seize the Night," and "From the Corner of His Eye."
The generous donation came as a pleasant surprise to Got Books and enclosed
was a letter from Koontz expressing his positive feelings about the company
and the work that it does. He also instructed that he would like the sale
of his books to benefit the troops and therefore all autographed Koontz
novels are now available at the weekly Charity Book Sale for just $5, with
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January 12,
2008
The
Money Show
Got Books founder Bob Ticehurst
conducts his first on-air radio interview with 96.9 FM’s Rick Shaffer, host
of the "The Money Show."
Listen in and hear about the full Got Books story, the nonprofits they serve,
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December 10,
2007
New
Chapter for RARA. By Angela Roy, Lowell
Sun
For the clients and volunteers
of RARA (Remarkable Active Resilient Adults), they will soon be cruising
around in a new 15-passenger van with aisles. There are also seats in the
back that fold to the sides and a DVD player -- ideal for those long trips.The
van might not be possible if it wasn't for Got Books. :::
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November 28,
2007
Got Books
raises money for Local Heroes.
Lou Cimaglia (left), President
of Local Heroes is presented with fundraising money raised by Got Books.
Wilmington-based Local Heroes is a nonprofit organization that sends weekly
care packages to local soldiers stationed overseas. Got
Books regularly volunteers and raises money for the group via its Charity
Book Sales. Last weekend's book sale featured a stack of autographed copies
of books by Dean Koontz. Fifty percent of the money rasied from the weekend
sale went to Local Heroes. As did a big collection jar of money collected
at the Got Books location. :::
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November
4, 2007
Got Books
saves over four tons of books from the Danvers waste stream.
Got Books teamed up with
the Town of Danvers DPW to support its annual two-day Danvers Earth Day
event. Got Books stationed a book-collection truck and staff for the duration
of the recycling event. Because the Danvers Earth Day drew such a significant
turnout, the truck quickly filled and over 8,000 pounds of books were saved
from the trash.
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October
30, 2007
Got Books
Wins 2007 MassRecycle Business Green Binnie Award
According to MassRecycle, Got
Books earned the award by providing "outstanding book collection and processing
services to both commercial and residential generators of recyclable material
(books, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes). They also developed, maintain, and have grown
an exemplary in-house book reuse system that maximizes waste diversion."
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October,
2007
The Boston
Herald In Education program, funded through the Massachusetts Literacy
Foundation (MLF) forms partnership with Got Books to support school community
Through the partnership, the
Herald In Education program and participating schools will share in the
rewards – a portion of the profits realized from the books collected at
participating drop-off containers will help support the work of the MLF
in schools and a portion goes directly to those schools to fund activities
of their choosing. In addition, teachers at the schools will receive gift
certificates for free books and be eligible for other educational gift opportunities
during the year. ::: Learn more :::
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September
30, 2007
Arlington
Babe Ruth league raises over $2,100 from successful Charity Book Sale
fundraising event
Got Books held a month-long
fundraising event for the league at its Charity Book Sale located at 35
Concord Street in North Reading. Each month, money earned from the Charity
Book Sale benefits a different nonprofit group. In September 2007, the featured
charity was Arlington Babe Ruth baseball. More about our Charity
Book Sale.
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September
19, 2007
City
of Portsmouth announces one-year pilot project with Got Books
PORTSMOUTH — Books, computer software,
videos, DVDs and even comic books are among the additional items that Portsmouth
residents can now bring to a designated reuse bin at the city's Recycling
Center under a one-year pilot project, City Manager John Bohenko announced
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