Better World Books

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Better World Books offers for sale donated books to financially support a host of non profit literacy programsw. They have earned over $1.3 million for these programs. Additionally, they have raised over $475,000 for collegiate student organizations that have worked on campus to coordinate book drives.

Better World Books is Books For Africa's largest financial contributor and source of used post-secondary books. Books For Africa has sent over 13M books to the Africa continent. Better World Books also supports Room to Read, working in Southeast Asia; National Center for Family Literacy, fighting the multigenerational illiteracy chain in the US; and World Development Fund, working in Latin America.

Better World Books partners with collegiate student organisations, to assist in the collection of old books. Better World Books lists as their partners: Alpha Phi Omega, Golden Key Honour Society and Circle K, and Phi Theta Kappa among others.

Started by three University of Notre Dame students in 2003, to help South Bend's Robinson Community Learning Center, Better World Books is still headquartered in South Bend, IN. Better World Books' founders won the prestigious the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza School of Business top prize for Social Entrepreneurship. In three years, they have worked on over 950 campuses.

Better World Books is not a non-profit organization; they are a social enterprise.

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