I sent an email out to a variety of local non-profits looking to see if anyone wanted to request our help. If anyone wants email/non-profit names I sent to and could do a follow up call — just ask and I’ll give you some contact info.
Open Door Medical Center responded with the following if anyone wants to follow up and pull this together for an event….
Thanks for sending this. Open Door Family Medical Centers books shelves are bare after a summer with many reading volunteers. If the FaVoRs group were interested in another book drive it would be wonderful. We need chubby board books and picture books for our Reach Out and Read Program. Thanks, Alicia Ward, Volunteer Coordinator, Open Door Foundation. Direct Phone: 914-502-1468. Email: award@odfmc.org
Someone did a book drive for Open Door a few years back and got a ton of books for them. Then we did a book mark and sorting books activity with our kids to tie it all in. Any family running this would be encouraged to run a side book drive at a school, church/synagogue, etc to collect books. We can’t rely solely on Favors members to donate books. The family who ran it last did a book collection with their friends, etc and then did a little PR so that we accepted books from the community the day of the event as well. We set up at Open Door on the lawn in Mt Kisco…and it was actually a great event! Read about the Reach out and read program here.
