United We Serve Book Drive

The North Carolina Literacy Council celebrates its 25th anniversary in September.  To honor the Council’s outstanding work in spreading books and literacy throughout our state, we are organizing a book drive from July 3rd – July 24th.  Bins have been set up at high-visibility locations around the county to collect donations.

Thanks to many of you, over 3,000 (that’s right, 3,000!!!) books and books-on-tape have now been collected as part of our United We Serve book drive.  Most of these books already have been or will soon be delivered to:  Read Seed, Inc., a nonprofit which distributes books during the summer months to children living in public housing in Chapel Hill, Durham, and Roxboro; the Home Start shelter serving women and children in the Chapel Hill area; and Public Health Department clinics and correctional facilities throughout Orange County.  We are also hoping to establish a long-term relationship with TABLE and its weekend backpack program, adding a new book to weekly backpacks currently filled with healthy foods and beverages for at-risk children in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro public schools.