Bellingham Books To Prisoners
Books To Prisoners is an all-volunteer, non-profit group that sends free books to prisoners in the U.S.
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Planning Meeting
EVERYONE WELCOME! Planning Meeting: Sunday, January 24th 1pm We will have a potluck lunch, bring something if you want to, or just come and share. This will be a chance to get together and talk, and get to know each other a little bit. We know there are a lot of good ideas out ...Read More
We’re Taking a Holiday Break!
Our new "every Monday night is a packing meeting night" has been wildly successful. We have volunteers, we have books, and we even have money for postage -- what's in short supply right now are letters from prisoners. The need is as great as ever, but there's fewer ...Read More
We Now Meet Every Week!
At our last planning meeting, we decided to change our packing meeting schedule to meet more frequently and eliminate confusion about when to show up. We are trying out a new, 5 times a month, packing schedule (at least through the new year, at which point we will re-evaluate). OUR NEW ...Read More
Next Packing Meeting: Monday 11/9 6-9pm
Our next packing meeting is on Monday, November 9th, 6pm-9pm. Come when you like; stay as long as you want. As usual, we'll be answering prisoner letters, wrapping packages and having a great time. (At our last meeting we broke a Bellingham BTP record by preparing 55 packages of books!) There ...Read More
Come to the Planning Meeting! 11/9 5pm
On Monday, November 9th we're having our monthly planning meeting. Everyone is welcome! Got ideas for fund raising? Innovations? Just want to be more involved with BTP? Join us an hour before the regular 2nd Monday packing meeting! We're meeting at 5pm in our usual space and we hope to ...Read More
Next Packing Meeting: Sunday, 11/1 1-4pm
Our next packing meeting will be this coming Sunday, November 1st--and, remember, it's an afternoon meeting instead of evening! The hours will 1:00pm to 4:00pm, and we hope to see everybody there! We meet in our space at the back of Rocket Donuts--if you haven't attended a meeting before, email us ...Read More
Next Packing Meeting: Monday, 10/26 6-9pm
Next Packing meeting is October 26th, 6pm-9pm, in our space at the back of Rocket Donuts. Packing meetings have been very lively--and productive--of late. At the last meeting, we had 16 volunteers, many of them new, and it was a good mix of students, folks new to town and long time ...Read More