Starting a Book Distribution Team: The Facts
Commit yourself and a team of your friends and neighbors to help increase reading achievement and literacy by joining United We Serve. This toolkit will give you the basics to run a book drive, organize your group, and make an impact.
80% of preschool and after-school programs serving low-income populations have no age-appropriate books for their children.
A recent study shows that while in middle-income neighborhoods the ratio of age-appropriate books per child is 13 to 1, in low-income neighborhoods the ratio is 1 for every 300 children.
The most successful way to improve the reading achievement of low-income children is to increase their access to print. Communities ranking high in achievement tests have several factors in common: an abundance of books in public libraries, easy access to books in the community at large and a large number of textbooks per student.
