VISION: ... keep books out of landfills and support global literacy.
Better World Books is also the winner of the 2009 Business Week Most Promising Social Entrepreneur Award and a founding B Corporation. Social and environmental responsibility is at the core of their socially entrepreneurial business.
The company has partnerships with more than 1,800 college campuses and 1,500 libraries nationwide, and has generated more than $6 million for its non-profit, library and college partners, donated 1.3 million books to literacy programs globally, and diverted over 22 million books from landfills.
All books are available with free shipping to any location within the United States (or $3.97 worldwide). And in case you're concerned about your eco-footprint, every order is shipped carbon neutral with offsets from Carbonfund.org. Their five primary literacy partners are Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Invisible Children.
And it gets local, too. Online Sidewalk Sales allow you to type in your zip code and browse a selection of titles in the Better World Books inventory that comes to them from a library near you. The best part is that proceeds go directly back to your local library.
"We've put aside roughly 5% of the company for use in stock option grants to an initial group of five literacy partners (with potential to add others in the future)", says Xavier Helgesen, one of the organization's leaders. He puts the philotophy best: "We created Better World Books to show that it is possible to do good while at the same time run a successful company. Our literacy partners are essential to our mission, and we want them to flourish."
Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than two million new and used titles in stock, Better World Books is a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic and environmental value for all their stakeholders.
Better World Books is also the winner of the 2009 Business Week Most Promising Social Entrepreneur Award and a founding B Corporation. Social and environmental responsibility is at the core of their socially entrepreneurial business.
The company has partnerships with more than 1,800 college campuses and 1,500 libraries nationwide, and has generated more than $6 million for its non-profit, library and college partners, donated 1.3 million books to literacy programs globally, and diverted over 22 million books from landfills.
All books are available with free shipping to any location within the United States (or $3.97 worldwide). And in case you're concerned about your eco-footprint, every order is shipped carbon neutral with offsets from Carbonfund.org. Their five primary literacy partners are Books for Africa, Room to Read, Worldfund, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Invisible Children.
And it gets local, too. Online Sidewalk Sales allow you to type in your zip code and browse a selection of titles in the Better World Books inventory that comes to them from a library near you. The best part is that proceeds go directly back to your local library.
"We've put aside roughly 5% of the company for use in stock option grants to an initial group of five literacy partners (with potential to add others in the future)", says Xavier Helgesen, one of the organization's leaders. He puts the philotophy best: "We created Better World Books to show that it is possible to do good while at the same time run a successful company. Our literacy partners are essential to our mission, and we want them to flourish."