As some of you might remember, over the holiday season we partnered with Splendid stores all across the nation and hosted the second annual Holiday Book Drive benefiting National Relief Charities. The local event here at Splendid’s Santa Monica boutique on December 4th was quite the turnout! At this event alone we raised over 200 books!
Lovely ladies Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tiffani Thiessen, Garcelle Beauvais, and Malin Akerman came out to support and donate. There was shopping, hot chocolate, and of course bedtime stories for the little ones. We were even mentioned in People Magazine!
Everyone (even our tiniest philanthropists!) had an AMAZING time!
The team here at Milk+Bookies want to give a HUGE thank you to Splendid and everyone who came out and donated! As a result, over 14,000 books were raised and are in the process of being sent to the Pine Ridge Reservation located in South Dakota in one of the country’s most impoverished counties. They will be used to stock the shelves of libraries in eight schools giving children of all ages access to reading materials.
We recently received word that boxes upon boxes have started to trickle in to National Relief Charities. The task now is to collect all of the remaining books from Splendid stores nationwide, sort them, count them, and then send them off to their final destinations! Clay Ramsey, NRC Program Manager, was kind enough to send us some photos of said boxes (we certainly don’t envy the people sorting through all of those!):
‘Twas certainly a season of giving!
More updates are coming soon…