[Bookstoprisoners] Re: Assistance with Large Book Donation

[Jay Schubert]

I've only gotten one or two responses to this request.  Barbara suggested
renting a van one way, but this plan would require the additional help of
others to meet her there as well as the cost of renting the vehicle.  If you
are a person willing to do the driving, now is your chance to say so.

Unfortunately if there are no other ideas brought forward, I will have to
tell the donor that we are not able to collect this donation.  I'll be
calling her tonight to tell her this unless anyone feels strongly enough
about us picking up these books to come up with a plan for getting them.

Thanks,
Jay

On 8/14/07, Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Yesterday I got a call from an employee of a legal clinic, which does pro
> bono work at Northwestern University.  Last Spring they did a book drive
> with the intention of donating the materials to incarcerated juveniles.
> They ended up with about 900 books, a majority of which are legal text
> books, many of which are college text books.  They would like to donate the
> books to our organization and understand that many of the text books may be
> marketed to pay for our operating expenses.
>
> If we are to collect this donation (from Evanston / North Chicago) it will
> probably take some coordination, but could be very beneficial to us.  The
> donation needs to be collected before August 31.  The donor estimates that
> the books would require more than a single trip in a minivan.  The books are
> shelved, and we'd need to bring our own boxes and it doesn't sound like
> there will be many people around on their end to help us load.  They will
> be able to coordinate with us if it takes more than one trip.  Perhaps I'm
> being overly optimistic, but it sounds likely that the text books have the
> potential to generate considerably more revenue (by selling on amazon) than
> any book sale we've held so far.
>
> Are you interested / willing to help collect this donation?  Do you have
> any creative ideas about how to get it down here?  If we aren't able to
> formulate a plan in the next couple few days, I will recommend that the
> donor contact one of the Chicago based projects.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
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