Women's Prison Book Project: Give to the Max 2024

Women's Prison Book Project has been sending books to people in prison since 1994. Our work has always involved navigating strict limitations, including book bans and content policing. But the landscape is constantly changing, and recently a significant number of prisons have been imposing policies requiring brand-new books only, significantly increasing the everyday costs of our work.

More funds give us more freedom to find the right books, in the right condition, for the people who need them. It allows us to send to exactly what people asked for and continue reaching those isolated in restrictive prisons.

💥HOW YOU CAN HELP 💥

This Give to the Max season, we aim to raise $30,000 in celebration of our 30th anniversary. This ambitious goal will help sustain WPBP for hopefully decades to come. A gift of any size helps power WPBP into the future. 

Here are a few ways your generous donation is put to work:

💜$500 fully funds our postage machine rental for a year, which sends an average of 100 packages every week. 

💜$100 contributes postage for 20 packages sent to incarcerated readers.

💜$50 supplies two sets of three creative favorites: Crochet Cute Critters, Easy Origami, and The One Minute Gratitude Journal. 

💜$30 purchases two paperback copies of 15-Minute HIIT For Women, one of our most popular wellness and exercise books. 

OUR MISSION 

This year, the Women's Prison Book Project (WPBP) celebrates our 30th anniversary. WPBP is an all-volunteer not-for-profit serving incarcerated women and transgender prisoners across the US. Since 1994, our work has focused on providing persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education to fiction, politics, history, and health. We seek to build connections with those behind the walls and to educate those of us on the outside about the realities of prison and the justice system.