Create a website to allow people to donate used books to ...
Create a website to allow people to donate used books to educators.
Idea Description
Create a website to allow people to donate used books to educators. People often have books that they do not use anymore that could fill libraries in all of the the inner city school programs.
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Start development on the website.
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Excellent! Go for it. Just start talking it up with teachers, librarians, and administrators.
Great idea - our schools need more books!
Great idea! Schools these days usually don't have enough money for books and supplies that they need to teach our kids what the state requires them to learn. When districts purchase new books, they should donate their old text books to this cause. Perfect.
how are you going to get people to go about taking the initiative to pack and send books? what about the idea of "Feed the Cow" containers that have received press lately. Could it work for books? once the books have been collected is there a way to share the books between schools so they don't just sit at one school indefinitely who can develop? approach a university, perhaps a class project in a web development class I think schools would jump at the opportunity
Why donate used, out of date books to inner city kids instead of new, currently usable books? School books are behind current thinking when they're published anyway. Donating old books is a strategy to keep kids behind the eight-ball.
WoW! Great Idea! You could publicise to get schools to list their needs and dreams for materials. and to get people, schools, publishers to donate books, videos, and other materials. This could grow big!
i have A TON of GREAT books i would be willing to donate. great idea! Check out my idea when you have the chance...I'd like you to be one of my site's first users! Cheers!!!
Great idea...maybe you can give points like Bookmooch.com does, and advertisers can donate items for "prizes". Not sure. I have a ton of books--especially computer books--that have never been touched and I would love to donate them--although they may not be applicable since technology changes so quickly these days. About the packing/shipping--maybe what you can do is try to connect people locally with their educators/schools, so they don't have to ship. I know it would cost me a fortune to ship the computer books, they're so huge. I also like the idea of schools putting their wishlists out there. Anyway best of luck with this idea, I have one out their too so maybe we'll both win! :-)
This is a great idea!!!
I also have a ton of great books I can donate... just sitting on my shelf waiting to be loved!