Today for my act of kindness/good deed I donated some of my used books to an organization called Better World Books. I had heard about them last week and after looking them up and doing a little reading on them, found they are a great business that contributes to the global spread of literacy. In short, they are a business where you can buy new and used books and reading materials with portions from each sale going to local literacy programs. They have also partnered with Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund and the National Center for Family Literacy to help bring books to people for little to no cost. You can get the full story and more great information on them by clicking HERE. Something else I really liked about them was that they also are very environmentally conscious as well. Every book order that is shipped from them is carbon balanced with Green-e Climate certified offsets from a place called 3 Degrees, which is a green power and carbon balancing services firm.
This is another win/win in my book, getting people books at a reduced cost and helping to promote an important cause like world wide literacy.
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