About this project
Blue Kitabu ( www.bluekitabu.org ) is a small 501c3 nonprofit organization that focuses on sustainable educational development around the world. We have found a way to become sustainable ourselves so that we can increase funding for our projects…
Our idea is to open a hip (used) bookstore, café and performance space for local artists here in Boston and have all of the proceeds go to our organization. The bands will get free exposure, you will get cheap fun books and $5 concert nights, we build sustainable schools! Works out very well! We’re hoping to open in early 2010. Contact us with band suggestions (elizabeth@bluekitabu.org).
We are already scoping out spots in Brookline/Allston/Cambridge MA and have a basement full of donated books ready to go!
All the books are gently used and donated (saving them from the trash!) and the stuff at the café will be eco-friendly and vegetarian (organic!). We will also sell hand-crocheted, recycled plastic bag totes (recycling forgotten plastic bags!). For every $1 given, we're expecting it to have a $100+ impact on our educational projects, so if you give $100, it’s like donating $10,000 to us in the long run.
The money will be used to build book shelves, install a speaker system, decorate the place, pay the initial month's rent, market the shop, buy basic machines and furniture for the lounge and cafe space and other misc. costs that come up in these ventures! If you're in Boston please come volunteer your time if you'd like! The more volunteers we have the further the money will go.
Part or all of your pledge is considered tax exempt (a writeoff!) AND you get cool stuff from our organization! Let us know if you want to be on our mailing list for project and event updates - shoot us an email or sign up on our website.
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on November 20, 2009.
Pledge $2 or more
and get your name written on a donor wall at the shop in your color choice .
Pledge $5 or more
and we will mail you one awesome Blue Kitabu bracelet.
Pledge $10 or more
and you will receive a set of 10 beautiful postcards from Africa complete with ribbon.
Pledge $15 or more
and you receive a handmade bracelet made of tshirt strips!
Pledge $35 or more
and you will receive a handmade recycled tote bag (Elizabeth will crochet it just for you! From plastic bags!)
Pledge $75 or more
and you will receive a *lifetime* membership card to "$5 Fridays" at our shop which will feature new local bands and musicians from around New England.
Pledge $100 or more
and you will receive a Blue Kitabu gift pack: BK bracelet, a set of postcards and a one size dress handmade for BK in Ghana!
Pledge $150 or more
and you will receive a matted/framed/mailed 8" x 12" photo of your choice from Africa by photographer Alexander Rivest (for photo selection please visit: http://www.bluekitabu.org/page27aa.html)
Pledge $250 or more
and you will receive a matted/framed/mailed 12" x 18" photo of your choice by photographer Alexander Rivest (for photo selection please visit: http://www.bluekitabu.org/page27aa.html) - again, incredible. Just bigger.
Pledge $500 or more
and we will make you a personalized project and thank you video from the kids and community at our Ghana project site - they really truly appreciate this project and they will thank YOU by name!
Pledge $1,000 or more
and we will name one classroom at our Ghana school after you. Complete with a gold plaque that will be posted until the walls fall down.
Pledge $5,000 or more
and you will receive an all expense paid (airfare, housing, food, local transport) guided tour of the town and project site during our next trip to Ghana, Rwanda or Kenya - your choice!
Pledge $10,000 or more
and Blue Kitabu will buy you a crown and name the entire school in Ghana after YOU (with a BIG plaque and sign on the road) AND an all-expense paid (airfare, housing, food transport) guided tour of the town and project site in Ghana, Rwanda or Kenya - your choice!
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My name is Elizabeth and I'm in love with the world. My full time (and then some!) job is Blue Kitabu (www.bluekitabu.org) and it's an awesome way to contribute my part to our global well being. I grew up in San Diego CA and moved to Boston MA in 2008, which is where the nonprofit really took off. Please contact me for more information or questions you may have!
