Holiday Book Drive at Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble Customers Give the Gift of Reading to Children in Need Through Annual Holiday Book Drive

Corte Madera Barnes & Noble Chooses Local Non-Profit Recipients:

Timothy Murphy School at St. Vincent’s School for Boys, Redding Elementary School, and Opening the World

Barnes & Noble Corte Madera invites customers to give the gift of reading to children in need during the company’s annual Holiday Book Drive, taking place November 1, 2014, through January 1, 2015. The Barnes & Noble Holiday Book Drive provides an opportunity for customers to donate books through locally designated non-profit organizations. Last year, Barnes & Noble customers and booksellers provided more than 1.5 million books to over 2,000 local charitable organizations that provide services to children across the country.

Holiday Book Drive recipients throughout the country include schools, libraries, literacy organizations, family social service agencies and homeless centers. This year, the Corte Madera Barnes & Noble, located at 313 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, CA 94925 will be collecting books for three Bay Area organizations: Timothy Murphy School at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael, Redding Elementary School in San Francisco, and Opening the World in San Rafael.

“The Holiday Book Drive is a favorite program of both booksellers and customers across the country,” says Sarah DiFrancesco, Vice President, Business Development for Barnes & Noble. “Customers often purchase and donate a personal childhood favorite as a way to pass on a holiday tradition to a child in their local community.”

Timothy Murphy School at St. Vincent’s School for Boys is located in San Rafael, California. Their mission is to “ meet the special education needs of St. Vincent’s residents and day students within the Marin Community with serious, academic, emotional, and behavioral challenges, with a structured educational program and nurturing environment which addresses the academic, behavioral, and community life skills of [their] students.”

Redding Elementary School, in San Francisco, California, “serves a culturally, linguistically, and ethnically diverse group of students who come from all over San Francisco. To the Redding School community, social justice and equity mean providing the highest quality education possible to all students so that they may succeed in our society.”

Opening the World (Through Travel) is based in San Rafael, California. Their mission is to “Empower and expose at-risk [youth and young adults] to experience a world outside of their own through volunteer and cultural experiences in their community and abroad.” Through these domestic and international trips, participants volunteer in schools, orphanages, and libraries. Their founder, Jeannine Curley, was one of a group of international recipients of the 2014 Unsung Heroes of Compassion award and was acknowledged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for her work with at-risk youth.

To find out how to participate in the Holiday Book Drive, contact the Corte Madera Barnes & Noble Business Development Manager / Store Manager, Laurel Kidd, at (415) 927-9016 or crm2274@bn.com.

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