2025 Highlights
- Jan 13
- 1 min read
2025 was a very productive and prosperous year for BTP!
Some of our favorite highlights:
We will have welcomed about 350 volunteers, donating around 8000hrs
We grew our successful partnerships with 7 independent bookstores
We hired a new Program Coordinator
We caught up from being 5 months behind in Jan to being about a month and a half behind now
A fine reading by Board member Anne in Issaquah brought renewed interest to 'Dear Books to Prisoners', a sequel to which we hope to publish in 2026
We brought together all the prison book programs from the Canadian border to northern Oregon for the first time, in November.
Board member Michelle appeared on the True Crime Tonight podcast (listen on iheartradio or spotify)
We featured in articles in Publisher's Weekly and WWU's The Front
Michelle also contributed a piece on prison censorship to Book Riot
We began training volunteers on sorting and shelving book donations, shout out to our Monday shelving crew!!
