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| Founded | 2011 |
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| Founder | Justin Stanley |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Type | Nonprofit [1] |
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Uprise Books Project was a non-profit organization in the United States that provided banned books to underprivileged teenagers. [2] It was created in 2011 with the support of a $10,000 Kickstarter campaign, [2] and announced its closure in 2016. [3]
The organization was based in Vancouver, Washington. It was run by Justin Stanley and was open to students aged 13–18 who would be means-tested to confirm their eligibility. [4] Students would then check the list of available books, choose the book they wished to read and a donor would supply it. [2] Available books were based on lists from groups such as ALA and ACLU. In May 2013, the Uprise Books Project was selected as one of the National Book Foundation's Innovations in Reading Prize winners. [5]
Over its nearly four and a half years of operations, the Uprise Books Project said it supplied banned books to 4,000 underprivileged teens and raised almost $25,000 in donations. The organization announced it was ceasing operations in a 2016 blog post attributed to Stanley, in which he said the volunteer endeavor lacked "the time, energy, or funding" to continue. [6]
