WMBA Nashville Is Holding a Book Drive this Month to Benefit Our Friends at Book’em

Info on how you can help WMBA Nashville help Book'em is inside! LFG!

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Heads up, folks! Call to help alert! Sound the alarm – whatever you want to call it. The Women’s Music Business Association (WMBA) Nashville is teaming up with our friends at Book’em for a book drive this October. If you’re unfamiliar with WMBA Nashville, they are “an exclusive professional organization dedicated to fostering opportunities for women within the music business through education, networking, industry involvement, community service, and organizational fellowship” (source). On a recent Facebook post, the organization announced the book drive, along with details for how you can pitch in and donate a book.

Courtesy of WMBA Nashville’s Facebook page:

“All this month we’re are having a book drive with Book’em! We will be collecting books for school-aged children at all October events!

Preferred Books Include:
Chapter books for elementary and middle school readers
Bilingual or foreign language books
Books that showcase all forms of diversity

If you would like to donate but aren’t able to bring the books to an October event, please email Aura at socialchair@wmbanashville.org”

This is awesome – the folks at Book’em do a great job getting books in the hands of kids who need ’em. If you’re willing and able to pitch in, I’m willing to step in, take your books, and see to it that they end up in Aura’s hands. I don’t know – something, call it intuition or whatever, tells me that I’ll be able to track her down before the book drive ends….anyway, shoot me a DM on social media or an email and we can work out the details if you’re inclined to help.

As a heads up, Books-A-Million typically has a killer selection of clearance books. I stopped by last Saturday to pick up a few books for the drive, and ended up spending about $15 for five books. Can’t beat it!

And, if you’re unfamiliar with the work that Book’em is doing here in Nashville, here’s a little snippet from their website: “Book’em began in 1989 when four women (Lee Fairbend, Karen Estevez-Gill, Georgeanne Chapman, and Ruth Ann Harnisch) united to find opportunities to assist the local chapter of Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest non-profit children’s literacy organization in the United States, in meeting its needs for books and volunteers. Books were collected and distributed through the Christmas Clearing Bureau, and eventually these distributions were expanded to schools and community organizations – Books for Nashville’s Kids was born.  Book’em grew through the years, distributing tens of thousands of books annually and adding Ready for Reading, a volunteer-based reading program in early learning centers. Book’em merged with RIF in 2006, and now administers the RIF program in 15 Title I Metro Nashville elementary schools.”

As usual, I know trusting your money, time, and other resources in the hands of strangers on the internet causes a bit of apprehension. Don’t worry – you won’t hurt my feelings if that’s the case for you. But, if that’s you, then I can still encourage you to donate directly to Book’em via their website.

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network, and a ‘Dogs Playing Poker on Velvet’ connoisseur. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD, #BeBetter, and ‘Minds right, asses tight.’ “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Nashville, Yankee Candle, and a whole world of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley.

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