The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation kicks off its annual spring fundraising drive on April 18th this year. The goal of the Do Good All Year campaign is to encourage at least 180 book and comic lovers from across the country to join Binc’s current monthly sustaining donors.
Right now Binc’s program manager is receiving over 20 calls a week from bookstore and comic shop employees and owners who need vital financial and mental health assistance. These calls for financial assistance represent a 60% increase compared to 2019, which means the support for their safety net needs to grow too. The Do Good All Year campaign will help to ensure that no eligible individual is turned away from receiving life-changing help and resources from Binc when they need it most.
The regional independent bookseller associations (NEIBA, NAIBA, SIBA, MPIBA, CALIBA, PNBA, MIBA, and GLIBA) are all getting involved in the Spring campaign as well. Binc is offering a celebratory ice cream social to the region which has the highest number of new monthly donors who sign up, and anyone can participate and donate. Even those that don’t work in bookstores can be part of the fun. Existing monthly donors can increase their monthly donations to help a region win the ice cream party, too.
Libro.fm is matching the generosity of our recurring donors who support booksellers and comic shop employees and owners every month by offering a free audio book to new monthly donors and current monthly donors who increase their gift!
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