For our annual #GivingTuesday campaign, and Prisoners Literature Project has a special ask. To help us, we’ve put together $3,000 in matching funds, so the dollars you donate can be doubled from now until the end of November.
Watch our new Halloween video! Horror books are in high demand by incarcerated readers. Help us “flesh out” our horror section by purchasing a scary book. Details including a range of titles on our donate page.
We’re pleased to share some letters that we’ve received over this past summer from book recipients. As noted, in the letter, word gets around about our program and the flow of letters to PLP is non-stop.
PLP hosted a session for Berkeley High School students this past June.
Support PLP by donating good stuff to Community Thrift Store in San Francisco
These donated books will allow PLP to fulfill a range of requests from incarcerated letter writers
We’re very happy to share some of the wonderful thank you letters we’ve received over the past months.
For Black History Month, we’ve curated a special list of high-demand books and topics.
Many, many thanks to Tor Books for donating hundreds of titles to us!
As we round out the year at the Prisoners Literature Project, we wanted to thank you all for keeping up on us, volunteering, or financially supporting us during the year with donations. It’s not too late to make tax deductible-donations to our programs before year-end! But this newsletter is mainly sent to celebrate a year in which we: – Sent out over 10,000 book packages […]
Prisoners Literature Project is an inclusive, all-volunteer, grassroots nonprofit whose purpose is to encourage reading, the pursuit of knowledge, and self-determination among incarcerated people. By sending free reading materials to those behind bars, PLP aims to foster learning and critical thinking and help people prepare to lead successful lives after incarceration. We believe that all people have a right to read.
