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NEW BOOK ADDITIONS
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We love to share our new titles here at BMAB. Here are some of the books we've discovered and are sending to Malawi this fall:
Wilma Unlimited
by Kathleen Krull
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 Mama Panya's Pancakes
by Mary & Rich Chamberlin
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Galimoto
by Karen Lynn Williams
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Facing the Lion
by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton
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SPOTLIGHT ON:
CISCO RIBBON CUTTING
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In May, Cisco Systems Senior Manager Naomi Chavez (top) and Executive Vice President George O'Meara (bottom) helped raise $65,000 for BMAB at the Cisco Auction. Together, we celebrated the donation with a Bookcase Library ribbon cutting ceremony at Rosemary Child Development Center in Campbell, CA on August 7. See our photos!
Donate and sponsor your own Bookcase Library! |
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INTERNATIONAL UPDATES
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We are busy expanding overseas! Please see updates on our current international projects:
Malawi Newsletter - July
Yucatan Newsletter - August
To support our work, donate to the Malawi or Yucatan campaigns!
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SUMMER INTERNS AT BMAB
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Each
summer BMAB hires 3 interns from Stanford
University. This
summer's BMAB additions are (l-r):
▪ Amanda Lodes ('09, Developmental Psychology) - First Teachers Intern
▪ Deborah
Sohn ('09, Classics & Sociology) - Programs/Research Intern
▪ Jennifer
Chin ('09, English & Communication) - PR/Marketing Intern To find out more about the interns and other staff, visit our BMAB Team webpage.
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CONTACT US
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1049 Terra Bella Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States
Phone: (650) 625-5000
Fax: (650) 625-9974 |
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SUMMER 2007 NEWSLETTER
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Greetings!
 At Bring Me A Book® Foundation (BMAB), our mission is to provide easy
access to the best children's books and to inspire reading aloud with children.
Through several outstanding partnerships highlighted in this newsletter, we are now doing just that
across the nation and the world! We are so happy to be working with partners and leveraging the volunteer resources of
corporations, universities, and other nonprofits to provide the best programs at the lowest cost to our donors. Thank you for
your support, and we hope that you will be inspired to get more involved!
Dianne Calvi, President
Bring Me A Book Foundation
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 | First Teachers encourages
parents to read to their children
on a regular basis.
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Featuring: First Teachers
Our popularity is growing: In Los Angeles, Program Coordinator and Trainer Colleen Triesch facilitated three First Teachers Workshops for 45 parents and 14 teachers total. Held at Para Los Niños Charter School, these were some of the largest workshops to date!
"Schools know our commitment to promoting children to read and getting parents involved," explains Colleen.
We also unveiled a partnership with Planned Parenthood that will integrate the First Teachers curriculum into the Teen Success program, which supports teenage mothers. Teen Success facilitators are being trained in First Teachers curriculum in 12 cities across the US, starting nearby in Salinas, California.
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BMAB Heads to Guatemala
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In early
June, we connected with Esperanza Juvenil, an organization run by Boys Hope Girls Hope that provides homes and education for 50 children in Guatemala. High school interns Matthew Calvi and Kelsey
Geiser spent two weeks bringing the First Teachers program and 180 brand new books
to Esperanza Juvenil youth and staff.
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"I got to know some really great
kids who enjoy reading and really appreciate the books they received from
BMAB. These books fueled the kids'
passion for learning," reflects Kelsey. "Reading aloud is not a
part of [Guatemalan] culture like it is in ours. However, once we introduced the concept, they
really enjoyed it and are on the road to making it a daily routine."
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Thanks to our Corporate Volunteers!
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New Santa Clara University Research for BMAB
 BMAB recently benefited from the research conducted by Santa Clara University's School of Education Seminar in Management and
Leadership. Invited by President Dianne
Calvi and First Teachers Senior Manager Nancy Ducos, Professor Frederick Ferrer, also
a FIRST 5 Commissioner, and his students presented their summer research on how our
programs could better serve children with special needs. Presentations included recommended book
selection criteria, recommended titles, challenges facing parents, and
adaptations to our First Teachers program and manual.
Some of their recommendations for our programs included to:
- Seek books
where the character's
disability was incidental to the overall story.
- Seek
books that promote positive images of persons with disabilities.
- Add
texture to illustrations or using touch and feel books.
- Use
books that are interactive and can use body movement, incorporating the titles into regular First Teachers Workshops.
- Realize
that some parents themselves have special needs.
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In the spring, we distributed a program survey to all
sites that received a 
