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ou can help with financial support and/or book donations:

Financial Need:  Books for the World-Wisconsin ships about 10 semi-truck loads of books each year.  Each shipment costs approximately $2500.  This is our single largest expense totally approximately $25,000 per year.



Tax deductible donations can be made through the Madison Breakfast Rotary Club Foundation.

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Or, checks may be sent to:
 
 Madison Breakfast Rotary Foundation
P.O Box 5524
Madison, WI  53705

The Madison Breakfast Rotary Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 organization.  Please indicate "Books for the World" on the Memo line of your check.

 
Book Donation Guidelines: 

 
DONORS:  We currently only accept books from schools.  We do not take books from libraries or individuals.​

We also ONLY accept books in English.  We no longer have the opportunity to send books to Spanish speaking or other language countries.
 
We may accept student desks, school furniture and other educational material, but only by special arrangement.
 
If questions, please contact:
                Thom Weiss
                608 212 7005
                tweiss57@gmail.com    

What we DO Accept
What we DO NOT Accept
Textbooks:
  • Math
  • Science
  • Language Arts
  • International/World Geography
  • International/World History
  • Unused workbooks that are included with the curriculum
  • U.S. / State History / Civics
  • U.S. / State Geography
  • Computer Science/Technology
  • Technical Trades
  • Family and Consumer Education
  • Cooking
  • Workbooks without the curriculum
  • Religious (or religious holiday) books
Teacher Resources:
  • If included with the curriculum
Teacher Resources:
  • Without curriculum
  • Lose notes/notes in three ring binders.
Encyclopedias:
  • Complete sets
  • Less than 10 years old
Encyclopedias:
  • Incomplete sets
  • Older than 10 years
Dictionaries and Thesaurus
​Compendium, digest, index or reference material that lists books, authors or other subjects 
Library and General Reading books:
  • Children’s picture books
  • Novels
  • Fiction and Nonfiction
  • International biographies
  • International history
  • Self-help books
  • Books about drug addiction, smoking, alcohol abuse
  • U.S. / Wisconsin-centric books
  • Books about U.S. sport figures or pop-culture figures
  • Technical Trades books
  • Computer science books
Other “stuff”
  • CD’s, DVD’s, VHS
  • Transparencies
  • Math manipulatives or other teacher aids
  • Flash cards
  • Cookbooks
  • Religious books
  • Magazines
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