 | | BooksFirst! thanks SBLI and the Wilmington Blue Rocks
BooksFirst! would like to thank the Savings Bank Life Insurance Company and the Wilmington Blue Rocks for their support of helping children become lifelong readers. BooksFirst! was recently selected as a beneficiary of SBLI's Stolen Base Learning Initiative.
BooksFirst! works to expand classroom libraries
Committed BooksFirst! volunteers recently teamed up to place more than 10,000 books in classrooms in North Carolina. In doing so, BooksFirst! was able to help schools such as Creedmoor Elementary expand their classroom libraries. |
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 | | | According to the National Center for Family Literacy, nearly 45 million Americans lack the reading ability to perform simple tasks like totaling an entry on a deposit slip, locating the time and place of a meeting on a form, or identifying a piece of specific information in a brief news article. |
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 | | BooksFirst! is a nonprofit organization that collects and distributes high-quality books to under-resourced classrooms— enabling students to become lifelong readers by developing, enhancing, and enriching their literacy skills.
BooksFirst! has distributed more than 50,000 books to classrooms and teachers, benefitting thousands of students across 24 states and the District of Columbia.
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