Give the Gift of Reading!
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Help Bring Me A Book make the holiday season brighter for children and families throughout California by purchasing a book. For only $10, BMAB will provide a high quality, hard cover classic or newly publiched children's book to an underserved classroom. Please help us ignite the passion for reading this holiday season!
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Malawi Project Update! |
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In 2008, BMAB friends, the Miller family of Seattle, traveled to Malawi to visit BMAB libraries in M'Manga village.
Visit our website to view their photos and read about our progress to date bringing books to children who need them most in Malawi!
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| Shop at Kepler's Bookstore! |
Looking for the perfect book for everyone on your holiday shopping list? Visit Kepler's Bookstore, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, to purchase a wide array of books and gifts suitable for everyone on your holiday wish list.
While purchasing, mention Bring Me A Book, and a portion of the sale will be given back to Bring Me A Book to continue to provide books and literacy programs to children throughout the Bay Area and beyond!
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| CONTACT US |
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1049 Terra Bella Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
United States
Phone: (650) 625-5000
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Winter 2008 NEWSLETTER
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| Greetings!
With 2008 coming to a close, Bring Me A Book would like to wish everyone a heartfelt Thank You for another wonderful year. We feel so fortunate to have had an ever expanding network of supporters, partner organizations, volunteers and friends of Bring Me A Book join us in our mission of providing easy access to the best children's books and inspiring reading aloud to children this past year.
Despite the challenges in the year ahead, we look forward to continuing our work towards achieving our vision of a world where all children read and succeed. From all of us at Bring Me A Book, we wish you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year!
Dianne Calvi, President
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BMAB Launches 2009 Peninsula Preschool Library Initiative
In November 2008, BMAB launched the 2009 Peninsula Preschool Library Initiative campaign to benefit underserved communities in Santa Clara/San Mateo County. Through generous individual and foundation donations, BMAB has raised over $150,000 of our $300,000 goal needed to provide classroom libraries and literacy training workshops to every state funded preschool and Head Start classroom in these two counties. Click here to donate to the Peninsula Preschool Initiative!
The Peninsula Preschool Library Initiative is committed to placing a free BMAB Bookcase Library containing 30 new, hardcover children's books in every state funded preschool and Head Start classroom in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. In addition, all parents of the children in these classrooms will receive BMAB's "First Teacher" training workshop. Our First Teachers Workshop ensures that a child's parent or caregiver understands both the importance of reading aloud to children on a regular basis and provides examples of how they can make reading aloud "fun" for children.
BMAB is seeking to complete the delivery of all Peninsula Initiative libraries and First Teacher workshops by 2010. The Initiative will place 196 Bookcase Libraries and conduct 151 First Teacher workshops at all state funded preschools and Head Start classrooms that have not yet received BMAB's literacy programs.
Click here to learn more about BMAB's Peninsula Preschool Initiative |
BMAB Partners with USC and LAUSD for our Los Angeles Expansion!
In October 2008, BMAB received a $150,000 grant from the California Community Foundation (CCF) to continue the expansion of our Southern California programs. The CCF grant will provide two years of core operating support for a full time LA staff person (Regional Manager) responsible for relationship building, program management and program evaluation. Through this funding, BMAB will be able to serve 13,500+ children with libraries and 7,000+ parents and teachers with literacy training annually.
In addition to enhancing BMAB's presence in Southern California, the CCF grant will allow for BMAB to partner with Los Angeles Unified School District and University of Southern California (USC) to conduct evaluations of our core programs; the Bookcase Library and First Teachers programs. The partnership between BMAB and USC will support more extensive testing of BMAB programs in Los Angeles than previously available. The overall objectives of the BMAB/USC evaluation are:
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To assess improvements on school readiness pre-literacy tests for pre-K students, especially among children who are low income, minorities or English Language Learners
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Track increases in kindergarten and 1st grade achievement outcomes in reading
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Determine increased knowledge of parents who participate in BMAB's First Teachers workshops
To date, BMAB has installed over 140 Bookcase Libraries in Los Angeles/Long Beach and has established a number of community- based partnerships with preschools and early childhood literacy organizations. "Bring Me A Book has opened up a world of books to our schools. Although the need for quality preschool instruction is becoming better known, a major way to level the playing field is to provide a well-stocked, well-run program. The opportunity for students to develop background knowledge and experiential knowledge cannot be underestimated." says Dale Petrulis, Director of Partnerships and Adopt-A-School, LAUSD.
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Cisco Systems Donates 75 Bookcase Libraries to Children!
On December 11, students of San Jose's Seven Trees Elementary School were given an early holiday gift when Cisco Systems and BMAB held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the donation of 10 Bookcase Libraries to the school's preschool, kindergarten and first grade classrooms. Cisco Systems employees Naomi Chavez Peters, Camille Sparkman and Corrin Hastings helped mark the donation of libraries and read aloud to the students.
The donation of libraries to Seven Trees Elementary marks the initiation of the 2008-09 national rollout of Cisco Bookcase Libraries. The libraries were generously donated by Cisco Systems through an employee led auction held at the annual Cisco Systems Leadership Summit on October 1, 2008. The silent and live auction raised $73,000 to provide 75 Bookcase Libraries to underserved sites across the country. Throughout 2009, Cisco Systems and BMAB will install libraries in New York City, Washington DC, Durham, NC, Colorado and Los Angeles.
"We are so grateful to Cisco Systems and Bring Me A Book for supporting our school! The students have been reading the books nonstop and the bookcase is now the focal point of our classroom. Everyone at Seven Trees Elementary - including teachers, administrators and parents, would like to thank Cisco Systems for making this happen for our children!" says Seven Trees teacher, Kathy Smith.
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