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Wisconsin Books for the World
Improving global literacy and education.
SLIDE 2 Madison Breakfast Rotary Club
Focus on Youth and Literacy
- Coordinates Wisconsin Books
for the World
- Sponsors one in-bound and
- ne out-bound exchange
student each year
- Project Home Pant-a-thon
- Special Olympics shot-put
- Meals on Wheels
- Madison Reading Project
SLIDE 3 Rotary International
1,200,000 members 35,000 clubs
SLIDE 4 Because educational resources are scarce in
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… and many schools/libraries in the U.S. need a place for used books…
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… we support global literacy and education by placing used books in the hands of people who need them.
SLIDE 7 History
- Began as a Texas – South Africa partnership between two
District Governors in 2000
- Three major collection sites in the U.S.
- Wisconsin Operation began in 2005
3 2 4 11 6 7.6 10 10 12 9 7 7 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Truck Loads
SLIDE 8 2018 by the Numbers
- Collected 3951 boxes of books (94% from
schools)
- Packed 89 pallets of books (26 pallets fill a truck)
- 8 packing events (11 pallets per packing event)
- 188 volunteers contributing 619 hours (7 man-hours
per pallet)
- Shipped 7 truck loads
- 171 pallets
- Plus 300 desks
- Ended the year with 14 finished pallets available
to ship and 35 unfinished pallets to pack
- 1517 volunteer hours from 607 volunteer events
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Trend
SLIDE 10 Book Collection - Locally
Waunakee Madison East RC Madison Breakfast
Fitch- Rona
Stoughton
Oregon
Deforest
RC
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Book Collection – State Wide
SLIDE 12 Book Collection – State Wide
Green Bay S.D. Arcadia S.D. Kenosha Library Waukesha S.D. Merrill S.D. Neenah S.D. Pardeeville S.D. Kiel S.D.
SLIDE 13 Sort, Pack and Palletize Books
8 packing events in 2017 with 188 volunteers
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Shipped from Madison to Houston, TX (Second Wind Foundation)
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Houston, TX to Around the Globe
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Rotary Connections
SLIDE 17 2018 Financials
Beginning Balance $13,996 Ending Balance $12,282 Income Expenses Schneider Trucking (in-kind) $4750 Shipping* $13,950 MBR $2100 Misc. $726 MBR Foundation $500 Follett $563 Individuals $4296 Total $12,209 Total $14,676
- Includes value of two “free” loads from Schneider Trucking. Does not include one “free” load to Nebraska by
Future Foam.
SLIDE 18 In-kind donations
- MATC – Warehouse space
- Second Wind Foundation – Overseas Shipping
- Schneider Trucking – Two truckloads/year
- Hallman Lindsay Paints – Delivery of book donations in Wisconsin
- Pelliterri Waste Systems – Cardboard recycling
- Future Foam – Local Transportation (+10 pallets of books to Nebraska)
- Allen Lund – Transportation brokerage services
- Ad Press – Boxes
- Steller Services – Boxes
- Webcrafters - Pallets
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Kenya
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Books from Cedar Grove to Uganda…
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Desks to from Deforest …
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… to Kenya
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More desks… From Marshall and McFarland…
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… to Kenya and Uganda.
SLIDE 25 Rotary Book Packing Event
- Saturday September 28, 10:00 – Noon.
SLIDE 26 Wisconsinbooksfortheworld.com Facebook at wisconsinbooksfortheworld
