Making Spirits Bright

Books can be windows for children to look into an experience unfamiliar to them!!!

These books are sooooooo popular when we go into schools that we have to limit one per kid! We are fundraising to be able to purchase more popular and diverse titles for the children we serve.

Hi FB Friends! I need your help sharing this post please. 🙂

Making Spirits Bright gets books into hands of children and families in Metro Detroit who do not have access to age appropriate and culturally relevant books.

We are serving close to 5000 students this fall with our programming and we need more books!!!

How you can help!!!

#1 Share this post with your community!

#2 Drop off gently used books to our Farmington location during office hours (1-2x a week starting in September) 28580 Orchard Lake Road Suite 104 Farmington Hills, MI 48344

Office Hours are posted on the main page of our website www.makingspiritsbright.org

#3 Share with a business or school to host a Book Drive. Better yet, TAG SOMEONE who works at a school or business that may want to host a drive.

This is where the community donates used books. No new books need to be purchased. It's a great opportunity for kids to practice leadership skills running the drive and give back to the community.

Book Drive sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4CAAAC2FA6FCC70-50673996-book

#4 Volunteer with Us

Sort Books:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4CAAAC2FA6FCC70-46973201-book

Volunteer At a Family Event in Detroit:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4CAAAC2FA6FCC70-48678280-inperson #/

DM me if you have worked with kids before and you would like to work a FREE BOOK FAIR this fall with us!

Thank you in advance. We started one year ago this month and have distributed around 100,000 books so far!!!!

www.signupgenius.com

We had a blast sharing our love of literacy with the Cody Rouge Community tonight!

Back-to-School means deliveries to our nonprofit partners like

Check out what they are doing in the community to support children and families!!!

If you shop at Kroger, please consider naming Making Spirits Bright as your nonprofit. We get reward points that turn into dollars from your shopping. In Q2 we received $49. Every bit counts when you are serving in a nonprofit!

We love when an old timey book appears in our donations!!!

Prepping for our Books At Home Programs. We host these at hubs during Family Literacy Nights!

Michigan Afterschool Partnership invites you to share (see attachment!) this opportunity with youth, parents, and partners.

MASP is excited to announce, open applications for our first Youth Advisory Council, designed to support youth engagement in organizational leadership with communities. Youth participating in the YAC will commit to a year-long process and earn a $1,000 stipend for full participation.

To apply, youth must be 14-19 years of age. https://forms.gle/uxkHPQsVidCGs1cQ6

Messages of kindness are all around us!!

One person CAN make a difference. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

It may require sacrifice but if you are passionate about a certain cause, YOU can advocate and make positive change.

Is there a little free library near you?

These are a great way to share your gently used books with your community. I (Maria-Co-Founder) like to drop my already read books in a little free library on vacation instead of lugging the books I read home!!!

When they say books can be windows, 🪟 it means children can look into another experience and get a glimpse!!!

It was a productive morning here at MSB with a group of team members from We appreciate your hands in helping us do important work!

“My birthday is the same as MLK Juniors! I can’t wait to read this book!”

Just one of the MANY reasons we do what we do… to help the community we serve make positive connections to books and discover the joy of reading.

Meet Shaniece Terrell. She is the Operations Manager at one of our partners, All Things Women in Detroit.

She is always doing SO MUCH for the community they have built through their nonprofit. We love working with her and her team!!!

This week, we dropped off 200ish books for their back-to-school event happening August 10th. They are still in need of backpacks if you want to help out!

Thankful for our interns, Marie and Isabelle for volunteering with us!

Books in! Books out!

Thank you to todays volunteers from Country Day, Ford Motor and

Taken in Detroit.

There is so much love put into the work we do. We just had another three groups of volunteers sign up to help us sort books! Teams coming together to put their time into helping us help others!

Mighty Love.

Over 2000 Learn to Read Books are prepped to give away to teachers.

Please DM us if you live in the Metro Detroit Area, are new to teaching or are in a low income school to receive books!

Thank you for the book donations!!!

Today we shopped for 500 NEW & FREE books at

We are lucky recipients of books from the Books in the D Initiative lead by the books were donated by the

Yesterday was full of partner stops to fill bookshelves and little free libraries!

✔️ Easter Seals
✔️ All Things Women
✔️ Little Old Lady Shirley who we drop books off to when she calls for more
✔️ Brilliant Detroit: Chandler Park, Central and Dexter

Sign up for our Teacher Shop FREE Event on September 14th from 9-1 at our Farmington Hills location.

https://forms.gle/K7EyTJihLHATC2ZCA

Eastern Market!!! Shed 5!!! Come see us!!!

Where are my book loving friends?

Today is the Detroit Book Festival at Eastern Market Shed 5 from 10-4.

Making Spirits Bright will be there selling books to fundraise for our fall programs!

Come visit us!!!

We received a new book donation from our friends over at in Traverse City, MI

We had a request for new books (which we don’t usually have) from
here in Michigan.

As the Metro Detroit Book Bank, sometimes our role is simply connecting the dots from one organization to the next!

Close to 200 new books will go into kits for homeless children in our area. ❤️

Meet Nicole and Amanda, two engineers from Ford.

They had fun sorting books today and found it funny they came across, not one, but two books on Mustangs! The Mustang is the car produced in the plant they work!