Book Drive...Easy ways to give

Don't forget to bring in any new or gently used books with you to Nurture when you visit. Just drop them off in the box on the stairwell landing. If you aren't planning on being at Nurture anytime soon, you can also bring your books to Green Bean Books or Milagros!

Green Bean Books is offering a 10% discount on any books purchased for the book drive.

Art Hop is next weekend, May 15th! Join the festivities, see great art, and drop off some books!

Sunday Parkways is the next day, May 16th! Nurture will be at Wilshire Park (NE Shaver & 33rd) with a diaper changing station, nursing area, and a box for book donations! Get out with the family, ride, stop by to say hello, and drop off some books!

May Day Book Drive

Dear Community:

Do you have gently used children’s books that your family has outgrown? Would you like to see those books in the hands of children who do not have their own books?

The Children’s Book Bank is a charitable organization whose mission is to provide gently used books and literacy support to the children of low- income families in Portland. The Children’s Book Bank is aimed at preschool children in Head Start classrooms and the books are available to the children free of charge.

The Children’s Book Bank is appealing to communities in Portland to help it build and sustain its inventory of books by donating gently used children’s books. Milagros, Green Bean Books, and Nurture have teamed up to host a May Day book drive to continue New Season’s Earth Day Book Drive efforts for the Children's Book Bank. The May Day Book Drive will run from May 1, 2010-June1, 2010. Our goal is to collect 1000 books!

Please help us to support The Children’s Book Bank by donating your gently used children’s books. Please take care to ensure that the donated books are gently used and are suitable for early readers and preschool aged children. No teen novels or adult books please. There will be drop boxes at Milagros, Green Bean Books, and Nurture.

Thank you for your interest and support!

For further information on this drive contact Jennifer Green at Jennifer@greenbeanbooks.com or Mychelle at Mychelle@nurturepdx.com

For further information on The Children’s Book Bank you may contact Shannon Schrecengost at shannons@childrensbookbank.com or visit its website at www.childrensbookbank.org.

Buy Local and Help Haiti

More Buying-Local Goodness (or: As If I Needed Another Reason to Love Portland)...

The warm-hearted, community-spirited, globally-concerned Milagros family is donating 10% of all of their sales to the Mercy Corps' emergency response to the earthquake in Haiti. Jennifer and Tony have invited other local businesses to join them in this effort and the response has been huge. For a list of all (of the very many) participating local businesses and their commitments visit the Milagros "Wave of Support for Haiti From Local Businesses" post. The list will be updated as more businesses join in to support Haiti.

I also wanted to pass this along from Supportland's Katrina Scotto di Carlo:

Our friends, Josh + Kelly, are traveling to Haiti to provide midwifery and basic medical services. They are disaster relief specialists and any funds donated will 100% go towards supplies for the Haitian people. They are amazing, selfless people. Donate and/or send them some positive energy. US BANK Acct. name- Dragonfly routing # 1230002200 acct.# 153690811358

Welcome with Love and Another Book Recommendation

Here is a follow-up on the previous post about book recommendations: My friends Kimberly and Jessi noted, on Facebook, that Welcome With Love is out of print and can be pricey on Amazon, but can be found in other countries with a different title: "Hello Baby". I have also found it with the Welcome With Love title used on Amazon, and new at Childrensneeds.com and Bestwebbuys.com.


Jennifer Fuentes from Milagros also recommended another lovely homebirth, co-sleeping, cloth diaper book called My Brother Jimi Jazz. Read her post about this book on the Milagros blog.