The Director’s Discretionary Book Donation Program

In 2007 the Director’s Discretionary Book Donation Program (DDBDP) was created to provide small book donations to non-profit organizations. We accept unsolicited requests for books for literacy programming use only. This program is not intended to provide books for events or gifts.

Every October we will make an announcement as to what regions of the country we will focus our giving. The giving preferences for each year will start on October 1, and end on September 30th of following year. Each year we will set aside an allotted number of books to be donated through this program. Once the allotted number of books has been depleted, donations through this program will end.

The program will donate between 30 and 50 books that are age appropriate to each approved applicant organization. Organizations will not have a choice in the selection of book titles or genre or the number of books they will receive. Organizations will be restricted to one donation per calendar year. The books have to be for use in a program or school located in the United States. Foreign organizations that have a United State’s Federal Tax Exemption are not eligible for donations.



For information on eligibility and applying, see the Director’s Discretionary Book Donation Program page on our programs site.