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Looking for a way to make a difference in the life of a child? By funding a BMAB Bookcase Library Replenishment, you can help us ensure that our programs continue to provide children with easy access to the best children's books.
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| Save The Date! |
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"What To Read When" Award winning author Pam Allyn to speak in Palo Alto
Where: MP Room at Walter Hays Elementary School, Palo Alto
Parking: Parking lot of the Junior Museum. |
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Celebrate Mother's Day with art and culture at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum Spring Family Festival May 10, 10:00am - 4:00pm.
Come listen to Bring Me A Book readers as they share traditional Himalayan stories as part of a day filled with activities including arts projects, musical performances and museum tours of the Asian Art Museum's Bhutanese exhibit. Spring Family Festival admission is Free from a generous grant by the Koret Foundation.
Visit the San Francisco Asian Art Museum website for additional event details! |
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Join our group page and be updated with the latest BMAB news, event invitations, photos and stories about the communities we serve.
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| Vote for BMAB as Your Favorite Nonprofit! |
In honor of National Volunteer Week April 19 - 25, The Volunteer Center is looking for nominations for top nonprofit organizations doing their part to change lives in the Bay Area.
Vote for your favorite nonprofit organizations, volunteers and corporations making a difference in the 2009 Volunteer's Center Volunteer Choice Awards.
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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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Spring 2009 NEWSLETTER
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| Greetings!
During these tough economic times, Bring Me A Book's partnerships with low income preschools and elementary schools help ensure that children have access to quality books and are read aloud to on a daily basis both at school and at home. By identifying and pre-qualifying the schools with the greatest need, Bring Me A Book makes sure your contributions will have the biggest impact.
There are many ways that you can help us by funding a library replenishment, working on a collaborative fundraising project or by introducing others to Bring Me A Book and our programs.
I hope that you will also consider contributing to our mission this Spring. Together we can realize the Bring Me A Book vision of a world where all children read and succeed!
Dianne Calvi, President
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Book Buddies Club of Woodside Adopts Preschool Classroom in Redwood City
When a group of 5th graders from Woodside Elementary School wanted to give back to their community, they decided to share their love of reading with children who did not have their same access to quality books.
The Book Buddies Book Club members Karl Arvidsson, Sasha Novitsky, Oliver Weiss, Hal Tuttle, Joey Coslet and Ben Werdegar decided to raise money to "Adopt" a Bring Me A Book classroom and donate a BMAB Bookcase Library. The library was filled with brand new, hardcover, bilingual books and placed in a preschool in an underserved area of Redwood City.
Through two bake sales in front of Robert's Market in Woodside, the Book Buddies raised enough money to give a new Bookcase Library to the Redwood City Child Development Center.
On March 25th, the Book Buddies held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate their donation to the preschool students and their teacher. Each of the boys took turns reading a book to the children from the selection of books in their library. The books they read were: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, Knuffle Bunny and The Very Busy Spider.
Redwood City Child Development Center Director Tish Hendricks said she had "never seen her students so attentive!" "They loved having the boys read to them!"
"We wanted to raise money to give books to all of you, because it is important to have good books to learn how to read," Book Buddy Joey Coslet told the students during the ribbon cutting ceremony. "We all like to read so much and we wanted to share that with all of you so one day maybe you will start your own Book Buddies Book Club."
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Buy Your Tickets for Ante Up 2009!
Come join Bring Me A Book for our 4th Annual Ante Up! Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament, Friday April 17. There are a limited number of tickets available so reserve your seats online today!
Bring Me A Book's Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament
April 17, 2009
Hosted by Frank and Jessica Lonergan
888 Portola Road, Portola Valley
Cocktails and Hors D'oeuvres at 7:00 p.m.
Texas Hold 'Em Poker Tournament Begins at 8:00 p.m.
$500 per player
$250 per spectator
Ante Up 2009 Sponsors
Asset Management Company, Tom Geiser & Donna Schweers, Kevin G. Hall, Marshall & Heather Koch, Stewart & Megan Koch, Frank & Jessica Lonergan, Gib & Susan Myers, Jeff Wohler & LinMar Management
100% of ticket proceeds directly benefit Bring Me A Book and our early childhood literacy programs.
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BMAB Partners with Duke University and Cisco to Donate 27 Libraries
Cisco Systems and The Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) at Duke University held a ribbon cutting ceremony March 10 in Durham, NC to celebrate the donation of 27 Bookcase Libraries to all preschool classrooms at 5 Head Start Centers in Durham. The ceremony included a ribbon cutting celebration involving 123 preschool children, Durham Head Start leadership and staff, 20 Cisco Systems Sales Leaders, CEHI Director Mary Lynn Miranda, Ph.D and members of the CEHI team.
The ribbon cutting ceremony recognized the significant contributions made by employees of Cisco Systems and "the Friends of CEHI" who together contributed nearly $43,000 to support the early childhood literacy initiative benefiting children in Durham. The donation of the 27 BMAB classroom libraries was provided by Cisco Systems' Services Sales Team, and Friends of CEHI raised $15,000 to purchase 1500 new, hardcover children's books from BMAB in English and Spanish for the 500 children in Durham's Head Start program to take home.
"CEHI maintains a deep institutional commitment to issues of social justice and thus focuses much of its work in low income and minority communities. It is a great privilege to be in this partnership with Bring Me A Book and Cisco Systems," says CEHI Director Mary Lynn Miranda, Ph.D. Watch a YouTube Video of Cisco Systems Igniting the Passion to Read!
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