UC Books to Prisoners Fall Benefit Book Sale
ORGANIZATION: IMC - Books to Prisoners
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Every fall, B2P holds a big benefit books sale where we sell the thousands of books donated to us that we cannot send into prisons or already have plenty of. And we need lots of volunteer help to pull it off. The sale itself is Saturday, Oct. 12th, but the work of advertising and setting up starts before that!
If you like to take walks, you can hang flyers; if you shop a lot, you can pick up used boxes; like to exercise, you can move the boxes of books around; if you like to organize and alphabetize, you can help arrange the thousands of books on the table tops! And the sale itslef needs staffing, and there's taking down and cleaning afterwards. Good snacks and good company. Added perk: you can pre-shop the sale.
1 Shift
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Thu Oct 10, 2024
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08:00 AM to 07:30 PM CST
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FULL
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About IMC - Books to Prisoners
Location:
202 S. Broadway Ave, P.O. Box 515, Urbana, IL 61802, US
Mission Statement
The mission of U-C Books to Prisoners is to provide books to incarcerated people in Illinois at no cost to them, and to promote education about incarceration and prisons in our community.
Description
UC Books to Prisoners is an Urbana, Illinois based project providing books to people in prison in Illinois by mail as well as through the Champaign county jail library which we operate.
We are an 20 year-old community-powered and volunteer-run organization with a number of easy ways for you to get involved. No experience is required (but it helps if you like to read). It suits most volunteers to give two to four hours a month due to the nature of the work, but if you like, you can volunteer more often,
Our volunteers interact with the incarcerated by reading their book request letters, selecting books from our collection and preparing them for shipment. They also regularly sort through book donations. We also staff a lending library in the Champaign County jail. If you would prefer to work behind the scenes, we can also utilize your unique skills coordinating book drives, fund raising, tech-support, packing boxes, data-base work, developing programs to educate and engage the community around issues of books and prisons, staffing our book sales, and more.
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Education & Literacy,
Justice & Legal
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
This opportunity has 1 shift
WHERE
Independent Media Center-Books to Prisoners202 S. Broadway Ave.Urbana, IL 61803
(40.111404 ,-88.206894 )
DATE POSTED
August 27, 2024
SKILLS
- General Education
- Literacy / Reading
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Public Groups
REQUIREMENTS
- This is a Done in a Day opportunity and there is no prior training or ongoing commitment needed.
- Must be at least 16
- 2-3 hours but volunteers often work longer because they find the task fun
- Enjoy working with others, good at following directions., like books, can alphabetize. Some tasks request fit, able-bodied people.