Donate to Book Clubs for INMATES
Your generosity ensures inmates receive new books for their clubs, and moves us closer to our goal of opening a book club in every penitentiary across Canada. Book clubs encourage inmates to improve their literacy, empathy, and pro-social skills, and help reintegrate them more successfully into communities upon release. Inmates are resoundingly grateful to be in these clubs -which for some offer the only opportunity for human connection and to have their voices heard.
ONLINE DONATIONS
Online donations through this site will be directed to CanadaHelps.
Where appropriate a charity tax receipt will be issued.
Every dollar you donate goes directly towards facilitating new and existing books clubs and providing brand new books for our book club members.
Donating made easy! Give a monthly gift to support book clubs all year round.
$50 monthly: funds an annual author visit to a book club.
$30 monthly: buys books for three inmates for one year.
$15 monthly: buys books for one inmate for one year.
$5000: Become a BCFI patron and fund a book club for a year. With your donation you will also receive a letter of thanks from the inmates you support, plus their current reading list.
$2500: Become a BCFI co-patron of a book club for one year.
DONATIONS BY MAIL
For donations by mail, please send to the following:
BOOK CLUBS FOR INMATES
c/o Centre for Social Innovation
720 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2R4
Mailed donations will receive a confirmation and tax receipt where appropriate.
BOOK DONATIONS: Please note that Book Clubs for Inmates does not accept book donations.
If you are interested in donating books to prison libraries, the Correctional Service of Canada facilitates donations to federal institutions (please contact: BookDonation@csc-scc.gc.ca).