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Have Tea Cups You’d Be Willing To Donate?

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Rabbit Hole Books and the Dayton Book Fair are looking for  porcelain and other ceramic tea cups to be donated for an upcoming fundraiser they are hosting.  It can be a single cup or a set. Funds raised will go to the Book Fair building fund, as they have outgrown their current building. 

Cups will be used for a  Lewis Carroll birthday Tea Party on Saturday January 27th from 1pm to 4pm at the book shop. Carroll was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer who’s most notable works are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. For $10 guests will get a cup to traditional tea, teacakes, biscuits and tiny sandwiches

If you have any tea cups to rehome, please deliver them to Rabbit Hole Books 29 West First Street downtown or Dayton Book Fair, 2181 Embury Park.

 

 

Dayton Book Fair Cancelled

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After much contemplation and discussion, the Book Fair Foundation, Inc. has opted to cancel their Book Fair for November 2020. This is the first year in 50 that there will not be an enormous Book Fair in Ohio, the second weekend in November.

Executive Director Larkin Vonalt posted the follow on the Dayton Book Fair Facebook page today:

“Please do not be too hard on us, we are heartbroken.

Donations are down due to the pandemic, and our volunteer ranks have been decimated by the loss of a great many helpful people who are simply too high-risk to come out. We could not figure out how to even manage social distancing, upholding mask protocols, and whatever other mandates the state may have bestowed by then. In addition, it is hard to know what the country is going to look like the week after the election.

The beneficiaries we chose for 2020— Community Voices at WYSO, the Dayton International Peace Museum, and X/ACT (Xenia Area Community Theatre) will be our beneficiaries for 2021.

We will still celebrate our 50th anniversary next year, featuring Harriet Beecher Stowe. Mark your calendars now for Friday, November 12, 2021, through Monday, November 15, 2021.

Donations are still being accepted at our 2181 Embury Park Road facility and at barrel and drop off points around the community.

We are ever more in need of volunteers to process and price books; if you love books and have some spare time, please come see us. Our offices remain open on Embury Park: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm and Wednesday from 1 pm until 7 pm.”

 

 

Dayton Book Fair Awards $30,000 in Grants

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Two years ago the  The Dayton Book Fair realigned their charitable mission, to select three local non-profit organizations to benefit each year.  Their volunteers work year round putting in thousands of hours collecting, sorting and prepping books for the four day  fall sale.  This year’s sale was well organized, well attended and quite profitable, based on the donation presented this morning to the 3 charities.

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Larkin Vonalt, Executive Director of the Dayton Book Foundation presents checks. Photo by Bill Franz

 

“We’re thrilled to be able to give each of our 3 organizations a $10,000  donation this year,” said Larkin Vonalt, executive director of the Book Fair Foundation. “Through the community’s generosity in both donating books for the sale— and their patronage of the Book Fair we’re able to re-home tens of thousands of books and help support important small area non-profits.”

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The three recipients- FilmDayton, K12 Gallery & TEJAS and the Learning Tree Farm each remarked on how this funding allows them to actual under take a new project, not just pay the electric bill.

The Book Fair Foundation is currently accepting applications for 3 new beneficiaries of the 2017 Book Fair through December 31, details are on their website.  Larkin shared they already have 12 pallets of books sorted and ready for the 2017 fair, even though the location will move, due to the Fairgounds sale.

 

 

Book Fair Accepting Applications for 2017 Charity Partners

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bookfairlogo2-1The Dayton Book Fair Foundation hosted it’s 2016 book sale just a couple of weeks ago and proceeds were donated to 3 local non-proftits- FilmDayton, K12 Gallery & TEJAS, Learning Tree Farm.

Now it’s time to find 3 new beneficiaries for the 2017 sale, which will be held the second week in November.

The application process could not be simpler— there’s no form or report or presentation. We simply need a letter from your group. Your letter should tell us something about the group’s mission, your role in our community, and how you envision a partnership with the Book Fair Foundation.

There are three requirements for application:

  1. Your group must be a registered organization in the State of Ohio.
  2. Your location must be within 25 miles of the city of Dayton
  3. You must be a 501c3.

Letters must be received by December 31, 2016.

The board will meet early in January to talk about the applications we’ve received. Some of the things that we consider is what kind of “match” the applicant feels like for us— does this seem like a group whose mission is in concert with our own? We also look at the 990-N documents that each organization has filed. We work very hard to make the book fair a success. We’d like the gift we give to have significant impact on the organizations we choose.bookfair

Dayton Book Fair beneficiaries share equally in the net proceeds generated by the fair– and this year we will again choose three organizations.

If your group is chosen as a beneficiary, there are certain requirements you should be aware of.

We require 40 volunteer hours from your organization. It can be 40 people for one hour, 4 people for ten hours, one person for 40 hours— the volunteer hours can be at the sale, or during one of our two roundups or during the year at the Book Loft, or a combination of any of those. At least four of those forty hours must be fulfilled on the afternoon of November 13th,2017 the Monday following the sale.

Additionally, we expect that you will promote the 47th Annual Dayton Book Fair among your own volunteers, staff and fans– through newsletter, website, Facebook page, emails or tweets. We want the people who love your organization to help support you by supporting the Book Fair.

2016_11_10_book_fair-1Letters of application should be sent to the Book Fair Foundation, 2181 Embury Park Rd, Dayton, OH 45414. You are also welcome to drop off your letter at our Embury Park Road office. (Look for the big red sign in the yard.) We are open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10 to 3 and Wednesday 1 to 7.

We will announce the beneficiaries of the 2017 Dayton Book Fair on Monday, January 16th, 2017 on this site, on our Facebook page and on our telephone greeting.

And remember, if we don’t choose you this year, that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t choose you another year, so even if you are disappointed, be sure to apply again.