As an essential service to the community, were still hard at work during the covid19 pandemic distributing books to the children who need us most. The lake bluffbased nonprofit collects, sorts, and distributes relevant and age appropriate books to atrisk children across chicagoland. Quality books for underserved children bernies book bank. Bernies book bank sources, processes and distributes quality new and gently used childrens books to.
In the interest of increasing efficiency, bernies book bank. A goodlooking youngish guy, as far as i could tell in the shitty light. Bernies book bank distributes books at back of the yards. On wednesday, august 3, bernies book bank, with assistance from hyatt thrive, distributed over 3,900 books to children at back of the yards branch. The objective of bernies book bank is to support the hard work being done in schools to improve literacy by insuring that children have books to read at home. Bernies book bankfounder and chief advancement officer brian floriani joins john williams to talk about his organization, which supplies books to underprivileged kids in chicago for free. Id noticed his shadow before, always reading a book or magazine so i figured he wanted to be left alone. However, to keep our mission in motion we need your support. Bernies book bank is committed to providing free quality books to underserved children throughout chicagoland. Bernies book bank, chicagos largest provider of quality childrens books.
All of these books are donated by generous individuals, organizations and book partners. Bernies book bank is one of chicagos largest literacy programs. To date, rose has donated 5,780 books to atrisk children throughout chicagoland through bernies book bank and the chicago wolves score for charity. Bernies book bank of chicago continues to support chsd170. Bernies book bank provides free books to underprivileged. Donate books, volunteer and invest to increase book ownership among local. Maybe he was seeking some kind of glory, trying to put all the pieces together and save the day because the north dakota police and u. Now able to distribute more than 2 million books a year to underserved children in chicago, the finished new office increases their capacity to reach their. Bernies book bank sources and distributes quality childrens books to atrisk chicagoland children, providing each child with 12 books a year. Its important for us to be as efficient as we can be, brian floriani said. The event was part of cpls rahms readers summer learning challenge. Most likely he worked a weird shift, like everyone in the area.
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