Thanks for your interest in donating to Street Books.
Instructions before clicking the Donate button:
- When you click on ’Donate‘, it’ll take you to a PayPal donation page.
- If you prefer, send a check to: Street Books / PO Box 13642, Portland, 97213.
- Donations to Street Books are now tax deductible — please include your address & we’ll send you a letter confirming your donation.
- All donations go toward staffing the library shifts, maintaining the bicycle, and buying used paperbacks for the library.
Thanks!
See our list of donors. Thanks so much!
This is a great idea!! Thank you for the work you’re doing!
Do you accept book donations too?
This is, and you are, awesome. How can I help? Love, Q Center Librarian
Awwwwwesome. Let us think on that…much appreciation.
I am making a small donation. Also, I am a haunter of thrift shops and if there are specific used titles I can track down and buy (on my own dime) for you, please let me know. Books can –and do– change lives!
Do you accept donations of physical books as well, I have many wonderful books that could use some new readers.
Fantastic idea! I am so moved by what you are doing. Thank you so much for nourishing folks this way.
Your such a good person, I hope you’ve noticed yourself. I’ve been bloging about Portland freegans, and am about to tag your website. Thank you for being a part of this unique community.
Thanks so much, Sierra. Have you seen Travis Shields short film about Street Books? It is wonderful. He has also done a short called, “Meet the Freegans”. Again, wonderful. Thanks for your kind words (I know they were meant for Laura…still)
I know Travis. Didn’t know he did a film. Will look for it. Just read about Laura’s Kickstarter in Portland Tribune. I had thought to bring my books to the homeless in Tigard. Not worried about getting them back. The Beaverton Library throws away those they can’t sell as used.
Thanks so much all for your interest in Street Books and your desire to help us. Currently, we are inundated with books…we are trying to establish a sort of storage arrangement (in Old Town would be ideal). We are also trying to figure out a book donation protocol. For now, we encourage people to mail donations to our PO Box (Street Books, PO Box 13642, Portland, OR 97213). Taking donations at the cart can be difficult… We will keep you posted!
I come from a family of book lovers and when I read the Street Roots article about your project, I sent a copy to my mother in Florida, knowing she would be moved. She was, and she recently shipped me a box of books for you, things she’s picked up at book sales and thrift stores and such. The titles she didn’t recognize she researched on the internet to see if they seemed like things that would be appropriate. Now I have linked her to the list of requested books, I know she will keep the list close at hand and make it a quest. And now I also know where to send the box I have, I will do that this week. Thanks for the inspiration.
Before I found out about Street Books, I had an idea to do this very same thing. Only it involved a wagon instead of the more eloquent cart. Everyone I told my idea to scoffed and said that it was dumb, that these homeless people wouldn’t care about books, that they just wanted money or food. I live in Seattle by the University of Washington, and I encounter a great number of homeless people everyday. I thought, aside from how horrible it is to live without a home or shelter for obvious reasons, how incredibly boring it must be to sit outside all day, day after day with nothing to do. Giving them stories would help fill their time, take them to different places, maybe even give them hope.
I love what you are doing and I want to thank you for being brave enough to do it. I would like to start something similar here in Seattle.
I read an article about your project in the Portland Tribune. Great project!!! I can’t afford a monetary donation right, but if you can use books let me know. What kinds of books can you use? Good luck with your project. Allen Julian e-mail: ajjulian@comcast.net
Another idea – if you have a public fundraiser – maybe I can help.
How about a book sale fundraiser to sell the books you can’t use and educate more people about your project.
Hi, I’m at Multnomah County Central Library. How can we return your books that people put in our book drop? Thanks!