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Your tax-deductible donation to Book Harvest helps to build brains and spread joy for every child – starting at birth!

Plus, a donation to Book Harvest makes a perfect gift in honor or memory of someone special! Include a message for your honoree with contact info, and we will send a personal note letting them know of your generous gesture. You can also use this fillable PDF donation certificate and present it to your loved one as a gift!

Interested in leaving a literacy legacy? Join Book Harvest’s Imprint Society, and support our long-term success by planning a future gift to Book Harvest.

Make a one-time donation

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These are examples of what your tax-deductible gift will make possible!
- $5,000 keeps five of our outdoor Book Boxes stocked with books all year long so that hundreds of children can harvest books - just steps away from their home - to keep forever.
- $2,500 equips 10 Durham Public Schools first grade teachers with a brand-new classroom library of 100+ all-new, high-interest, culturally inclusive books, to ignite their students’ love of reading.
- $1,250 gives 24 newborns a racing start to language and literacy by providing each with a starter home library of 10 brand new, high-quality board books.
- $500 keeps learning alive for a classroom of third graders who each selects 10 books to take home to read over the summer and keep forever.
- $300 supports bookshelves brimming with books at two local laundromats where dozens of children snuggle up with cherished stories while their laundry spins and then take them home to keep forever.
- $150 Fills 30 bags with high-quality books for parents to harvest when they pick up their children from daycare, ensuring they can enjoy cozy bedtime stories together after a long day at work.
- $85 provides a family with a custom-made, heirloom-quality bookshelf where their children can proudly store their precious new books, building a home library!
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Book Harvest
2501 University Drive
Durham, NC 27707

Become a monthly sustainer

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Change your sustaining pledge

If you need to change your monthly sustaining gift or alter billing information, you can login to your Book Harvest stripe account using the email you have linked to your donation. You can also email Charlia Vance or call our office at 252-497-2665 and we would be happy to help.

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Make a Legacy Gift

We invite you to join our Imprint Society, a group of generous and forward-thinking donors who support our long-term success by including Book Harvest in their will or estate planning.

Legacy gifts are an important way for donors to realize long-term impact for a cause they care about. We suggest you consider options with your trusted legal and financial advisors so you can create a simple planned gift perfectly suited to your personal priorities. Your support of our mission will be long remembered and honored.

To make a legacy gift, contact Advancement Director, Isabel Geffner, at Book Harvest: isabel@bookharvest.org or 252.497.BOOK.

If you have included Book Harvest in your estate planning, we would be grateful to be notified, so that we can list you as a member of the Imprint Society.

If you would like to leave a gift in your will, or if you already have an existing will that you would like to update by adding a gift to Book Harvest, we suggest the following language:

“I bequeath (amount OR percentage) to Book Harvest, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized and existing under the laws of North Carolina, with the principal business address of 2501 University Drive, Durham, NC 27707 USA (federal tax identification number 45-2610533).”

Give appreciated stock

Transferring stock to Book Harvest:

Book Harvest’s account name at PNC is “Book Harvest Corporation,” account number is 005-225571 and DTC number is 0226. Tax ID #: 45-2610533.

Once you have transferred the shares into Book Harvest’s account, please call (984-244-2863) or email Finance and Operations Director, Kate Panuska with the following information:

1) The name of the stock(s) you are transferring;

2) The number of shares you are transferring.

If your CFP or brokerage account needs Book Harvest's account representative, our contact is Derek Finney at PNC, 412-803-1250.

Questions? Contact Finance and Operations Director, Kate Panuska, at kate@bookharvest.org or 984-244-2863.

Are you a state employee? Our SECC code is 3918.

If you are a state employee, you can easily designate a gift to Book Harvest through the North Carolina State Employees Combined Campaign (SECC). Visit the campaign website to see how easy it can be to help children and their families have access to an abundance of books and literacy resources. And remember to use code 3918 to designate your gift to Book Harvest.