ADVANCING LITERACY, ONE BOOK AT A TIME!
Booksustain is dedicated to donating books to children, teens and adults in underserved communities in Los Angeles.
9,300 +
Books donated since 2021
Here are some of the shelters, foster care agencies, schools and literacy organizations to which we have donated books.
Book Donation to A Place Called Home
Booksustain is proud to announce our new partnership with A Place Called Home, an incredible organization dedicated to empowering young people in South Los Angeles.
Booksustain has donated over 820 books to support their mission of education, creativity, and opportunity. We’re honored to help provide young readers with the resources they need to learn and grow.
February 19, 2025
TESTIMONIAL
Thank you for your recent donation to A Place Called Home.
Your support is vital to our work serving youth and families in South Central LA. We want to share our heartfelt gratitude for supporters like you that have made it possible for us to transform the lives of thousands of young people. A Place Called Home has served our South Central community for over 30 years, and Booksustain’s gift of books for our Comic Art and Literacy Expo allows us to continue to reach new milestones and meet the needs of our community for another 30 years to come!
Your support is invaluable to us, and we are incredibly grateful for your commitment to our youth and community. Thanks to you, A Place Called Home will continue to be a safe space for young people to receive the support they need, to explore their passions, and to dream big.
Thank you for driving our work forward right now, and for years to come!
Yours in service,
Norayma Cabot
Chief Executive Officer
Book Donation to St Vincent De Paul of Los Angeles
Booksustain is thrilled to announce our latest donation of over 1,000 books to St. Vincent De Paul of Los Angeles! This incredible organization provides essential services, including food, clothing, furniture, and financial assistance to those in need. Their impact in the community is truly life-changing.
We’re proud to support their mission by sharing the gift of books.
Thank you to our amazing volunteers and supporters who made this donation possible!
January 25, 2025
Book Donation to 49th Street School
Booksustain has donated over 500 books to 49th Street School in Los Angeles!
Thanks to the incredible partnership with Reading Partners, we were able to provide K-4th grade students with new reading material to inspire their love for books.
October 2, 2024
Book Drive - Southern California Taekwondo Center
We’re thrilled to announce the success of our book drive at Southern California Taekwondo Center!
Thanks to their generosity, we collected over 800 books to support literacy programs and donate to underserved communities.
September 28, 2024
Book Donation to Hope the Mission
Today Booksustain donated over 1100 gently used books to Hope the Mission. These books will be distributed to their shelters across Los Angeles.
June 25, 2024
TESTIMONIAL
“I want to say thank you for your recent donations of books.
Your generosity will have a profound impact across our organization as these books find their way to various sites, enriching the lives of many. We are truly grateful for your kindness and dedication to our mission.
Thank you once again for your thoughtful donation.”
- Julie Camacho
Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Hope the Mission
Book Donation to Reading Partners
This week we donated over 225 books to READING PARTNERS, a literacy organization which provides reading support to K - 4th grade students.
We enjoyed seeing the students excited about selecting books to add to their personal libraries.
April 23, 2024
TESTIMONIAL
“I wanted to follow up and just say thank you again for the amazing books that you all collected and brought to us at Crescent! I have been able to spread the books across several of our sites. Many of our sites have run out of younger level texts for our Take Reading with You program, and the students were so excited to see new book options for them!”
-Jenna Chaffee Program Director, Reading Partners Los Angeles
Book Donation to Vox Collegiate Middle School
We were thrilled to meet some of the brilliant 8th graders at Vox Collegiate Middle School. With the over 350 books donated, we were able to help stock their school and personal libraries.
April 2, 2024
Book Donation to Hope the Mission
We are proud to have donated over 1,200 gently used books to Hope the Mission this week!
March 2024
Thank you Hope the Mission for helping us advance literacy and bring the joy and enrichment of literature to the individuals who rely on your services.
We are grateful for the partnership we have with this incredible organization which strives to eliminate poverty, hunger and homelessness.
TESTIMONIAL
“Thank you for this wonderful book donation. We will be sharing these at our sites and new sites that will be opening.“
- Julie Camacho Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Hope the Mission
Book Donation from Iliad Bookshop
Thank you Iliad Bookshop for donating over 400 books to Booksustain. And thank you for supporting our mission to advance literacy and provide books to those relying on social services.
February 24, 2024
Book Donation to Pennylane Center
So pleased we were able to donate over 520 books for children and teens to Pennylane centers.
January 25, 2024
TESTIMONIAL
“Booksustain delivered to Penny Lane Centers over 520 gently used books. Sophie and Davin Donay, co-presidents of Booksustain, founded the nonprofit to provide books to those with limited access, to advance literacy and to avoid waste and preserve these valuable resources. This wonderful organization donates used books to family shelters, foster care agencies, transitional housing facilities and other community service organizations in the Los Angeles area. They collect books from the public, participating libraries, bookstores and other nonprofits and donate them, thus lessening the environmental impact of book disposal.
We have taken their generous donation and distributed them to the many families and individuals that Penny Lane serves. Thank you Booksustian as we at Penny Lane appreciate you. “
-Nydia Barakat Director of Fund Development, Penny Lane Centers
Book Donation from American Cancer Society Discovery Shop.
Thank you American Cancer Society Discovery Shop for regularly providing us with gently used books so we can serve those who have limited access to books.
2021 - Present
Book Donation to Hope the Mission
This week we donated over 750 books to Hope The Mission!!!
September 27, 2023
Congratulations to Hope the Mission for opening new shelters in the San Fernando Valley.
Book Donations to Sova Pantry
We are so happy we could donate books to Sova Pantry to distribute to families using its services.
September 27, 2023