Julia’s Coffee www.juliascoffee.org is a coffee shop and used book store that is a fund-raising program of the Habitat ReStore Charlotte. They receive books through donations and use the proceeds to fund building houses. Because of the donations, they had book sales of over $105,000 last year and were able to fund an entire Habitat House!
From January 17th – 31st 2010, we will have donation bins at Mosaic each weekend to collect books for the Habitat bookstore. We are collecting the following types of books:
- paperback
- hardcover
- fiction/non-fiction
- biographies
- cookbooks
- Children’s books
They do not accept encyclopedias, catalogs, magazines or out dated reference books. Books should be in “like new” condition.
If you have additional questions, or would like to donate books directly to Habitat for Humanity, please contact Crista Ray at (704) 716-7040 ext 2232 or cray@charlottestore.org.
My Girls on the Run group did a book drive as our community service project in the fall. I have about 10 boxes of books that are totally up for grabs. I contacted every hospital in the area but no one’s gotten back to me and I want them to go somewhere!! They’re all kids books…and they’re all used…but we went through them to make sure they still looked good. No ripped pages, etc. Some of them may have names on the inside cover (??) but many of them are still in really great condition. I might need help delivering them (seriously…there’s a TON!!) but you’re welcome to them!
Yes, that would be great! We will have bins each week in the foyer starting this weekend, so if you wanted, you could bring a few box each weekend. Or if you can get help getting them in your car, then I’m sure we can get some of the volunteers to unload them at church!