Ann Arbor, MI—The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation is kicking off its year-end campaign, Read Love Support (#readlovesupport), on November 15th this year. With the need for emergency financial assistance continuing to increase year over year, their goal is to reach $100,000 or more in donations before December 31, 2022. Penguin Random House is partnering …
The only non-profit in the United States dedicated to assisting bookstore and comic shop employees and owners in financial need, Binc has been changing lives through their core program of providing assistance to the individual employees and shop owners in the the bookselling community for over 25 years.
The IBPA Fall 2021 catalog, Indie Titles For Your Consideration for booksellers, featuring more than 100 books from independent publishers raised $2,560 for Binc. We are pleased to introduce you to IBPA’s Lee Wind and share more background on this successful and innovative fundraiser that has done so much to raise money and awareness for Binc.
Supported by a group of authors, Binc is launching a new matching campaign and a stretch goal of $20,000 additional, for a new total campaign goal of $80,000 by Dec. 31.
Update: You are all amazing! Thanks to your generosity and a match from Ingram Content Group, we met our fundraising goal in record time. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! But the campaign isn’t over. Every gift matters. Every gift is important. More news to come soon.
