Programs
First Book organizes book distribution events, social enterprise and cause-based marketing campaigns, network engagement, and a large number of public/private partnerships:
- First Book National Book Bank – This online system enables children's publishers to donate large quantities of new books for distribution to programs serving children's needs.
- First Book Marketplace – This on-line bookstore offers educators and after school programs high-quality titled books at a discounted rate.
- Local Advisory Board Networks – In an effort to get books to children all over the United States and Canada, this community-based model brings together local leaders, educators, and volunteers. The Advisory Boards identify heroic local programs serving the hardest to reach children and raise funds so that these groups can order new books for free through First Book.
- Million Page Mission - In 2008, First Book and Kraft Foods' Oscar Mayer Lunchables, along with the public relations firm Weber Shandwick launched the Million Page Mission to encourage children and parents to read 100 pages together during the back-to-school season. Arbor Books was selected to produce and publish the free downloadable children’s book, Adventures in the Stars to accompany the nationwide event. The foreword was written by actress Lori Loughlin.
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