I am looking for ideas from this Reddit community on possible avenues to find funding to buy multiple copies of a book to give to military spouses in a book club.
TLDR; I am a military spouse that runs a book club for military spouses and AD service members. We are preparing to read the self help book ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ in August. That book also has a supplementary journal that myself and the other military spouse that runs the club are currently seeking funds/help to purchase for roughly 20-24 active members (as a journal is intended to be written in and kept and cannot be borrowed from the library and written in/kept).
While we typically self-fund the purchase of anywhere from 6-8 books to give to military spouses that otherwise could not afford to purchase them or the library does not have enough available copies it is admittedly a lot for myself and/or one other person to try to buy 20-24 supplemental journals to give away.
I have an Amazon wishlist that I made where I put both the 24 copies of the journal AND a few copies of the book itself.
A little about our club. We are fully funded by, ran by, and our members are all military affiliated. We are the only active military book club in Southern Nevada and support/welcome AD service members and spouses from both Nellis and Creech Air Force Base.
We are extremely active and have grown in membership over the last year from 4 active members to now over 20 active members and have absorbed/merged with two other military spouse book clubs in that same time.
We read two books every month. We also hold two events/meetups per month, one in which we discuss the books and another in which we do a ‘field trip’ to local places such as bookstores, book festivals, etc.
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