Interested in joining the pilot program?

Are you interested in getting Kindles for your Kids?
We are currently accepting applications from organizations and schools that work with at-risk and low income youths, in grade levels 6 to 12. Some obvious ones jump quickly to mind: Inner city school districts with a high percentage of Title I students, organizations that target at-risk and [...]

Welcome to Connect2books.org!

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free” – Frederick Douglass

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”  – Victor Hugo
“A man is known by the books he reads.”  - Ralph Waldo Emmerson
“There is more treasure in books than all the pirates’ loot on [...]

Step 1A: Identifying those in greatest need

Step One in the pilot program is to identify a handful of communities around the country that have experienced some hardship or extraordinary circumstances that have left their schools without access to books and other educational resources – fires, floods, storms or other Katrina-like disasters come to mind. Perhaps the town’s or the high school’s [...]

Step 1: Who gets them?

The first step in getting this concept off the ground is to identify some organizations that would be willing to partner with Connect2books on the “demand side”.  Some obvious ones jump quickly to mind: Inner city school districts with a high percentage of Title I students, organizations that target at-risk and underserved populations, such as [...]