Bernie's Book Bank

our mission: bernie’s book bank collects, processes and distributes quality new and used children’s books to significantly increase book ownership among at-risk infants, toddlers and school-age children throughout chicagoland. we’ve collected, processed and distributed more than 4 million quality children’s books since our founding in december of 2009 and currently serve more than 130,000 at-risk children with 12 quality books per year. our goal: our goal is to collect, process and distribute 4 million books per year, serving all 400,000 at-risk children in the chicagoland area with 12 quality books per year by 2016. then we plan to establish bernie's book bank locations in other metropolitan cities across america. “at bernie’s book bank, we have one main focus,” says bernie’s book bank founder and executive director brian floriani, “and that is to be the logistical bridge – between where books are and are no longer being used, to where they are not and desperately needed –