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Book Harvest Provides 70,389 Children’s Books to 14,208 Students In Thirty-Five Schools Across Four Counties May 25, 2023, Durham, NC:...

April 6, 2023 Book Harvest was quick to adapt during the pandemic and consistently provided books and literacy support to the hundreds of...

March 30, 2023 | By Bria Davenport Spring has sprung! If you’re in North Carolina, the pollen has definitely been our cue for the...

March 16, 2023 | Content provided by Family Forward NC Employers across North Carolina want to attract and retain the best employees, and...

March 2, 2023 | By Bria Davenport March is Women’s History Month, and it’s a great time to get your kids involved in writing their own...

February 23, 2023 Book Harvest is continuing to grow and we are excited to introduce our two new literacy coaches: Vanessa...

February 16, 2023 This week, Alisa Miller, Book Harvest’s family engagement manager, attended a Read-In at Club Boulevard Humanities...

Dream Big Book Drive Numbers! 65,013 Books Donated 2000+ people attended Dream Big on January 16, 2023 84 Book drives were held in...

January 26, 2023 Today’s blog post was creating using materials from Talking is Teaching, a campaign of Too Small to Fail. Books build...

January 19, 2023 | Benay Hicks Monday was a day we will never forget. Our 12th annual Dream Big Book Drive was a beautiful celebration of...

December 22, 2022 | By Benay Hicks As 2022 comes to a close, I find myself reflecting upon the words of the children and families with...

December 1, 2022 On Tuesday we celebrated GivingTuesday, the annual day of global giving. And while the focus was on supporting...

November 23, 2022 | By Bria Davenport Happy Thanksgiving! The holidays can be hectic when you’re trying to get things together but you...

November 17, 2022 | By Benay Hicks As of today, Book Harvest has provided kids in our community with 211,945 books so far this year!...

November 10, 2022 Book Harvest is growing! Over the last couple of months we grew by four new employees and it’s time for you to meet...

November 7, 2022 | By Isabel Geffner, Advancement Director A funny thing happened on my way to read a report by our beloved and wise...

October 27, 2022 | By Tabitha Blackwell, Executive Director of Book Harvest Durham “I can’t read,” my daughter, Safia, proclaimed yet...

October 11, 2022 “I’ve been waiting for you all my life!” These are the words of Jaylen, a first grader who discovered a...

October 6, 2022 | Benay Hicks Today was very exciting: we held our first public storytimes in the Family Space! A storytime is perhaps...

September 29, 2022 | Ayejah I. Powell, Guest Blogger When my mom asked me if there were a book from childhood that helped me navigate...