[Bookstoprisoners] Re: BooksToPrisoners Digest, Vol 27, Issue 14

[adiaz25 at uiuc.edu]

Jay, don't get your hopes up, but my parents are coming down from Chicago tomorrow to help Noah and I move, and I will ask them if they would be willing to pick up a few books.  They want to leave early in the morning, though- would they be able  to pick up the books around 8 or 9 in the morning? 

Like I said, though, don't get too excited about the idea because my mom is going to be pretty busy/stressed, and going to Evanston would be out of the way.  I will talk to her soon. 

-April

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>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:07:15 -0500
>From: "Jay Schubert" <jay.schubert at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Re: Assistance with Large Book Donation
>To: BTP <BooksToPrisoners at lists.chambana.net>
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>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.
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>Thanks,
>Jay
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>On 8/14/07, Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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