BOOKSTOCK BENEFICIARIES
The following not-for-profit agencies and organizations received used and donated books and other media material from Bookstock – Used Book and Media Sale.
Detroit Public Schools – Durfee Middle School, Butzel Magnet School, Glazier Elementary School, Winterhalter School, Gardner School Phoenix Academy Middle School, Detroit Pontiac Alternative Education, Pontiac Yapo Computer Learning Center, Pontiac Lancaster Village Computer Center, Pontiac Sites of Promise (Pontiac-part of United Way of Oakland County, Metro Detroit Promise) Madison High School, Madison Heights Livonia Public Schools (receives children’s books following every Bookstock sale) Operation READ through Groves High School in Birmingham to expand media center at Higgins Elementary in Detroit Summer in the City, Detroit Macomb/Oakland Regional Correctional Facilities Operation Paperback (paperback books for our armed service personnel, in the States and overseas) Operation from the Heart COTS, Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Detroit Catholic Social Services of Oakland County |
United Way of Oakland County Neighborhood Network Centers in Arborview, Neuman Ct., Walton Woods, (Pontiac) JARC Teitel Jewish Apartments, Prentis Jewish Apartments Jewish Community Center, Ann Arbor, Early Childhood Education Program (sent books to an Israeli school), Temple B’nai Israel Pre-School Library, Petoskey Temple Shir Shalom, Keter Torah Synagogue, Temple Shir Tikvah YIVO – Yiddish Books Hillel at University of Michigan American Jewish Historical Society Holocaust Memorial Center City Year, Detroit Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit – outfitting mobile library book cart for patients Bay City Books sent to Israel, Estonia, Uganda, New Orleans (prayer and other sacred books to Reform congregation damaged in Hurricane Katrina) |
