Books for Soldiers

Books For Soldiers | Winston-Salem, NC
Books for Soldiers operates on a simple mission: to get books out to the soldiers overseas so that when they have downtime, then can enjoy themselves and have a piece of home with them. During the first Gulf War, the founder of Books for Soldiers had friends deployed internationally, and knew they were in need of reading material. So he started shipping old books he could find and asked others to pitch in–sending over 1,000 books the very first year. As the idea caught on, Books For Soldiers set up a self-service website so that volunteers nationwide could send out books and other mementos from home to soldiers around the world. Even better, the site provides a way for soldiers and military officials to request specific items. A Books For Soldiers volunteer can simply look up the request, find the books and send them off. The site currently gets 7,000 requests a month and fills 99.9% of them, totaling over 100,000 shipments sent yearly.

Books for Soldiers