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Communicate with us about your reading experience. Complete this survey to let us know how things are going and if there are ways we can be of assistance. Volunteers are our most valuable resource. Book’em has a volunteer base of 300+ community members who serve as reading role models in local elementary schools and early learning centers, prepare donated books for distribution and fulfill book requests, help out... Click below to learn more about all of our programs to see where you would best fit as a volunteer or to fill out the volunteer form! Research shows that reading aloud to children greatly increases their ability to learn to read and build essential literacy skills.

If you have questions, please email [email protected]. Book’em depends on small groups of volunteers to help us prepare books for distribution. This usually involves sorting through donated books, cleaning them, stamping or labeling them, counting them and boxing or shelving them. Some of the work is physical as books in boxes and bins tend to be heavy. Occasionally, we have other group needs such as data entry, cleaning and organizing, packing up books, delivering boxes of books, etc. Given our small staff, space constraints, and bandwidth, we have developed some guidelines for volunteer groups, so that they meet our needs, and we can provide your group with a meaningful, rewarding, and fun...

Read about the guidelines below. If you are interested in hosting a book drive, processing book donations, filling book requests, delivering books, helping with special events, or volunteering in other ways, please complete our Volunteer Interest Form and we... Email [email protected] for more information. Location: Our offices are located at 161 Rains Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. We are inside the Nashville PBS Building, next to Fall-Hamilton Elementary School. Please enter through the gate on Rains Ave.

For visiting and volunteering, park at the front entrance by the flagpoles. For book pickups and dropoffs, please pull around to the Prop Area Entrance at the back of the building. Through our main programs - Books for Nashville's Kids (BFNK), Reading is Fundamental (RIF), and our Book Bus – we strive to cultivate a love of reading in Nashville's underserved youth through book ownership... Book Ownership: Simply put - we take in books (the majority come in through donations), sort and clean them up, and give these books to schools and other organizations serving kids in Davidson County. Books are also distributed through the RIF program each time a volunteer visits his or her classroom. Reading Role Models - RIF & Ready for Reading (R4R): Trained volunteers are matched with classrooms in local elementary and preschools, where they have the opportunity to read aloud to their assigned classroom and...

In 2006, Book’em joined forces with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the largest children's literacy organization in the United States. Today, Book’em administers the RIF program in 15 Title I Metro Nashville elementary schools and is working to be able to serve more schools in the future. Each classroom is visited by a volunteer reader five times throughout the school year, during which the reader engages the students through interactive reading. At the end of each visit, students each pick their own book to keep and enjoy at home. Each child ends the school year with five new books in their home library, a relationship with a reading role model, and (we hope!) a re-energized love of books and reading. Locally, the RIF program now serves over 7,000 children a year through a network of more than 250 reading role model volunteers, distributing 31,000+ books annually.

RIF is FULL for the 2025-2026 school year, and we cannot thank you enough for your support! If you were unable to join us this year, fill out our Volunteer Interest Form here so we know to keep you in mind for RIF next school year. Currently volunteering with us and have questions? We've created a resources page just for you. Click below to get started! "RIF allows students to see that not only does their teacher feel that reading is important but the community does as well."

"This program is transformational for students and brings my students such joy!" Reading Is Fundamental’s (RIF’s) program and content offerings provide books and resources for families, educators, and literacy advocates to create a culture of reading in the classroom and at home. Giving children choice and access to new, age-appropriate books to take home and own is positively tied to reading behaviors including motivation, frequency, and engagement—which lead to enhanced reading and writing performance, language development,... Of children living at or below the poverty line in America have no books at home. In some of the lowest-income neighborhoods, there is just 1 book for every 833 children. Research demonstrates that the presence of books in the home impacts academic outcomes for children.

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) addresses the critical need for book ownership through our Books for Ownership program and Skybrary digital library.

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