Week 3 EOC: Making Money for Good

­The best giving charity that I found was Better World Books. This is a company that knows a thing or two about what it means to give back. It turns out that for every book that is purchased from their website, they donate to either Books for Africa, which is their longtime literacy partner or Feed the Children who have continuously found good homes for books. Better World Books started their charity back in August, 2011. They had donated over 18M books, have raised over $22M for literacy and libraries and have recycled/reused over 210M books. Better World Books also work with the two other non-profit literacy organizations; National Center for Families Learning and Room to Read. Better World Books also provides literacy grants where non-profit groups or libraries write up what they do with their grant “down to the dollar” and once they do they decide to fund the projects that they think will be the most successful pursuing or the most in need. Even though they spend so much time donating books to places like Africa and many more, they still find time to recycle things like metal shelves from libraries across the United States to help reduce carbon and support the move to a low carbon economy, with every order at BetterWorldBooks.com has the option to be shipped carbon balanced for just a few cents extra. So far, we have reached 44,000 tons of carbon offsets. Better World Books is one of many companies that are doing the best thing the world underprivileged children by giving them the opportunity to read. They’ve been around for a few years showing major progress and success in the world of charity and from the looks of it, it doesn’t seem like they’re slowing down anytime soon. With the support of books that are being bought through their business, they will continue to power through.