We’ll be skipping a week in our usual last-Sunday-of-the-month volunteer orientation schedule to better accommodate holiday plans for many. (We will be open 2–5 p.m. for current volunteers and drop-off donations of books and leftover money.) Continue reading ‘New Volunteers: Next Orientation is Sunday, January 4’
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New Volunteers: Next Orientation is Sunday, January 4
Published December 23, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: volunteer
New Volunteers: Orientation this Sunday, November 30
Published November 27, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: volunteers
Concerned about prison issues and want to get involved? Intrigued by the chance to make a concrete, personal difference in the lives of prisoners?
Join us for our next orientation session, led by one of our experienced volunteers—Sunday, November 30, 1–2pm, right before our regular 2–5pm work session. Get the details here.
If you can’t make it this week, plan now to join us for our next orientation. These monthly events usually take place the last Sunday of the month, but to better accommodate holiday travel and such, our next orientation will be Sunday, January 4. This might even tie in nicely to a New Year’s resolution or two. Volunteer? Meet new people? Save the world (or at least one small part of it)?
If you’re not often available on Sunday, check out other ways to get involved and help give women in prison the self-empowerment, education and entertainment that reading provides.
New Volunteers: Orientation this Sunday, October 26
Published October 21, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: volunteers
It’s easy to make a difference in a concrete, personal way in the lives of incarcerated women looking for the self-empowerment, education and entertainment that reading provides.
Join us for our next orientation session, led by one of our experienced volunteers. It takes place the last Sunday of each month, 1–2pm, right before our regular 2–5pm work session. Get the details here.
If you can’t make it this week, plan now to join us for the November 30 orientation. Not available on Sundays? There are lots of other ways to get involved and help get books in the hands of women in prison. We hope to see you soon!
New Volunteers: Orientation this Sunday, September 28
Published September 23, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: volunteers
If you’ve been thinking about getting involved, now’s the time. Join us for our next orientation session, led by one of our experienced volunteers. It takes place the last Sunday of each month, 1–2pm, right before our regular 2–5pm work session. Get the details here.
If you can’t make it this week, plan now to join us for the October 26 orientation. Not available on Sundays? There are lots of other ways to get involved and help get books in the hands of women in prison. We hope to see you soon!
Forgotten and Alone in Prison
Here I am locked up again,
with no family or loved ones near.
All that’s left inside of me
is the sadness and fear.
I pray to God for salvation and
to lead me in his precious grace.
As I beg him to show me mercy
as tears roll down my face.
As I lay here in my cell sitting on my bed,
I shed another tear, because I feel
I’ve been forgotten
by those I love so dear to me. Continue reading ‘Poem from Florida’
To the Book Angels —
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I recently received a package of books and they were wonderful. I live in an open quad with 70 other women and 10 Greyhounds (we do rehab training for retired racing Greyhounds to help with their adoptions) and everyone gets excited when we receive books. Everyone is usually good about sharing, as it is hard for some to get to the compound library. The latest editions were all from popular authors so they are making the rounds.
Once again I’m gong to request any of the latest bestsellers. Other popular titles have been requested too. Please send authors like Nora Roberts, Fern Michaels, Danielle Steele, Susan Monk, Meg Cabot, Southern authors, Patterson and Grisham, any vampire books and cookbooks. Believe me, any sent will be shared and enjoyed.
Sincerely,
Cathy C.
Special Requests and How You Can Help
Published August 7, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: Amazon Wish List, book donations, special requests
See our Amazon Wish List for hard-to-find books that are often requested
The next time you place an order, why not select one (or more!) of the books on the list for us? This will help you meet the $35 minimum for free shipping and it’s easy to have the books for prisoners sent directly to us.
Check out our most recent special requests
Here are just a few of the hard-to-find books we could use right now. (Some are also on the wish list. Some may be on your shelves or in that box in the corner of your basement.) We’ll be updating this list as needed, but for starters: Continue reading ‘Special Requests and How You Can Help’
New Volunteers: Orientation Sunday, August 24
Published August 6, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: volunteers
To avoid possible conflicts with Labor Day weekend, we’ll be moving up our monthly orientation session one week in August.
Every week we pack and send books to more than 60 prisoners. If you’re interested in prison issues and would like to help make a significant difference in the lives of prisoners, we’re the place to be.
Join us Sunday, August 24, at 1pm. (Our volunteer orientations take place 1–2pm, right before our regular 2–5pm work session.) Get the details here. Of course, there are always other ways to get involved and help get books in the hands of women in prison. Looking forward to meeting you soon!
Every week we pack and ship more than 60 packages of books. To keep our costs down, we recycle brown paper bags—and now we’ve run out of bags.
So we’ll be happy to take that pile of bags off your hands. Just drop them off any Sunday afternoon, 2–5pm at 4511 N. Hermitage Ave. (Sunnyside and Hermitage). We’re only two blocks from the Montrose Brown Line stop and there is plenty of free street parking. Look for our doorbell at the top left of the church entrance. Continue reading ‘Wanted: Brown Paper Bags’
New Volunteers: Orientation this Sunday, July 27
Published July 21, 2014 Uncategorized ClosedTags: volunteers
Concerned about prison issues and want to get involved? Intrigued by the chance to make a concrete, personal difference in the lives of prisoners? Interested in offering women behind bars the opportunity for self-empowerment, education and entertainment that reading provides?
Join us for our next orientation session, led by one of our experienced volunteers, this Sunday at 1 pm. (Our volunteer orientations take place the last Sunday of each month, 1–2pm, right before our regular 2–5pm work session.) Get the details here.
And of course, there are always other ways to get involved and help get books in the hands of women in prison. See you soon!
Chicago Books to Women in Prison 
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