Ripple Effect Book Drive

We started Ripple Grove Press to bring beautiful and timeless books to life. But we also want to make a difference in the lives of children. So we teamed up with the Children’s Book Bank (CBB) in Portland, OR, to start a book donation drive called “The Ripple Effect.” We want to put a book in every young child's hands. The Children’s Book Bank makes that possible.

They reach low-income neighborhoods, where the ratio of books to children is one book for every 300 children, far below the ratio of 13 books per child in middle-income neighborhoods. The Children's Book Bank closes this book gap by gathering tens of thousands of new and gently-used books from the community each year and engaging hundreds of volunteers to help clean, sort, and distribute the books to low-income children, free of charge. Since 2008, The Children’s Book Bank has delivered over 510,000 books to over 41,000 local children in need, giving these kids tools to develop the language skills they need to become future readers, learners, and citizens. We want this reach to go as far as possible. We have collected over 3000 books in the two years we have been doing this. Please help us make a difference.

Please donate new and used books. Hardcover or softcover. One book or 100. We’ll find a new home for your books. And for every Ripple Grove Press book bought and sent to us for CBB in the month of February, we'll match it. 

Please help us by sending children’s picture books to:
Ripple Grove Press
PO Box 86740
Portland, OR 97286

For more information on CBB visit www.childrensbookbank.org.

Thank you for your support and helping us in this drive. Hopefully we’ll create a story to tell.

Second Annual Ripple Effect Book Drive

Our second annual "Ripple Effect Book Drive" will take place in month of February. Last year we collected and donated over 700 books thanks to your help. Let's beat that number this year! Start looking through your books now or add a new book to your next bookstore purchase.

We started Ripple Grove Press to bring beautiful and timeless books to life.  But we also want to make a difference in the lives of children.  So we are teaming up with the Children’s Book Bank (CBB) in Portland, OR each year to help put a book in every young child's hands. The Children’s Book Bank makes that possible.

They reach low-income neighborhoods, where the ratio of books to children is one book for every 300 children, far below the ratio of 13 books per child in middle-income neighborhoods.  The Children's Book Bank closes this book gap by gathering tens of thousands of new and gently-used books from the community each year and engaging hundreds of volunteers to help clean, sort, and distribute the books to low-income children, free of charge.  Since 2008, The Children’s Book Bank has delivered over 510,000 books to over 41,000 local children in need, giving these kids tools to develop the language skills they need to become future readers, learners, and citizens.  We want this reach to go as far as possible.

For every Ripple Grove Press book bought and sent to us for CBB in the month of February, we'll match it, and for every dozen new or used books donated (not an RGP book) we’ll add a new RGP book.  Hardcover or softcover. One book or 100. We’ll find a new home for your books.

Please help us by sending children’s picture books to:

Ripple Grove Press

PO Box 86740

Portland, OR 97286

For more information on CBB visit www.childrensbookbank.org.

The Ripple Effect Book Drive

Thank you to everyone who donated to The Ripple Effect Book Drive! We dropped off over 650 books to the Children's Book Bank in Portland, OR.

We had 17 donations of new Ripple Grove Press books that we matched one for one. And we donated one new RGP book for every dozen books received; that brings the total of books donated by us alone to 60 books!

We are humbled by the reach and generosity of so many people; we received books from all over the country and even a few from the UK! A girl scout troop in Vermont collected and sent us 176 books!

Thank you! 

The Ripple Effect Book Drive

We started Ripple Grove Press to bring beautiful and timeless books to life.  But we also want to make a difference in the lives of children.  So we are teaming up with the Children’s Book Bank (CBB) in Portland, OR to start a book donation drive called “The Ripple Effect.” We want to put a book in every young child's hands.  The Children’s Book Bank makes that possible.

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They reach low-income neighborhoods, where the ratio of books to children is one book for every 300 children, far below the ratio of 13 books per child in middle-income neighborhoods.  The Children's Book Bank closes this book gap by gathering tens of thousands of new and gently-used books from the community each year and engaging hundreds of volunteers to help clean, sort, and distribute the books to low-income children, free of charge.  Since 2008, The Children’s Book Bank has delivered over 510,000 books to over 41,000 local children in need, giving these kids tools to develop the language skills they need to become future readers, learners, and citizens.  We want this reach to go as far as possible.

For every Ripple Grove Press book bought and sent to us for CBB in the month of March, we'll match it, and for every dozen new or used books donated (not an RGP book) we’ll add a new RGP book.  Hardcover or softcover.  One book or 100.  We’ll find a new home for your books.

Please help us by sending children’s picture books to:

Ripple Grove Press

PO Box 86740

Portland, OR 97286

For more information on how to help and donate, please visit: www.RippleGrovePress.com 

For more information on CBB visit www.childrensbookbank.org.

Thank you for your support and helping us in this drive. Hopefully we’ll create a story to tell.