During the school year many students depend on free or low-cost breakfast and lunch. Unfortunately, many of those children go hungry during the summer. So the great Chicago Food Depository is helping to bridge the gap. They are also partnering with Bernie's Book Bank...

Rep. Yingling initiates effort to replace flood-destroyed books at Round Lake Park school State Rep. Sam Yingling announced plans to initiate a book drive next week to help replace materials destroyed by flooding at W. J. Murphy Elementary School in Round Lake Park....

http://wgnradio.com/2017/07/02/saturday-night-special-7-1-17-organizations-helping-children/ No matter how you feel about school lunches, free breakfast programs, gun violence, poverty, sexism, racism, we can all agree that every single child deserves and has a right...

Check out this link to view Bernie’s Book Bank’s appearance on the 9 o’clock news!

Visit this link to see Windy City Live’s full coverage of Bernie’s Book Bank!

"Goddard School preschoolers from 18 Chicago area locations hosted a month-long charity book drive in January with the goal of collecting over 30,000 books for Bernie's Book Bank. On Jan. 27, Goddard School preschoolers delivered 32,502 books to the Book Bank and more...

Check out the Chicago Tribune to learn more about our new location!

Thank you to the HP Hockey Team for running a wonderful book drive for the holidays!

Bernie’s Book Bank is moving! The new location will be seven times larger than the old one and will accommodate up to 125 volunteers at a time. Read more here!

Here at Bernie’s Book Bank we value efficiency because we believe that our cause is urgent. Read the Chicago Tribunes story about Bernie’s model here!

Bernie’s Book Bank will be featured on the Ruth Fell Wander Community Art Wall at First Bank of Highland Park throughout the month of December 2015. Bernie’s Book Bank provides quality new and gently used books for at-risk children throughout Chicagoland. The exhibit,...

Bernie’s Book Bank founder and executive director Brian Floriani has come a long way since running golf schools in Lake Tahoe and West Palm Beach. Floriani launched Bernie’s Book Bank just over five years ago in honor of his father, Dr. Bernard P. Floriani, or...

Voting for the 10th District Leadership Awards has been extended to noon on Monday, Nov. 9, for a contest organized by the office of U.S. Congressman Robert Dold (R-10).  Nominations were solicited throughout the month. Of the 10 finalists for the various awards, four...

More than 100 golfers took part in the "6th Annual Birdies & Books Charity Golf Classic" that raised enough money to collect, process and distribute 170,000 quality books by Lake Forest's Bernie's Book Bank.The book bank will supply 28,300 more at-risk Chicagoland...

Walking into school and seeing a truck with the Bernie’s Book Bank logo means one thing for children living in at-risk communities throughout Chicagoland, another six months of reading. The bridge between where unused, quality books are, and where they need to be is...

Thousands of children in and around the Chicagoland area have been gifted with the power of literacy with the help of Niles Township and its surrounding North Shore communities. More than 15,000 books were collected during the Books for All Children initiative which...

A real estate group will host a Children’s book drive this month to support Bernie’s Book Bank, which provides books to low-income families. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group in Lake Forest will host the drive from June 6-13 at their office at...

Below is an excerpt of an email from Lake Bluff resident Norman Olsen about his work with Bernie’s Book Bank, and a response from Make It Better Founder Susan B. Noyes. Dear Susan My daughter, Karin Campia, has often spoken about you and I have learned from others...

Deerfield children in the youth baseball and softball league deliver food to an area pantry and plan to help us at Bernie's in the near future! Read their inspiring story below:   "If an off-season effort to make the world a better place is an indication of...

Thank you to The Goddard School, who donated 25,000 new and gently used books to Bernie's Book Bank on National Reading Day! Kindergartners from the Round Lake Goddard School were on hand to put stickers on books as they spent the morning volunteering. The Round Lake...

Thankful for all of our wonderful 2014 press! Feel free to browse below... Kane County Chronicle – December 24, 2014: Lazarus House among 29 nonprofits awarded grants Insurance Journal – December 17, 2014: IICF Midwest Awards $545K in Grants to Local Non-Profits...

Bernie's Book Bank press from way back in 2013! Could not be more grateful for our overwhelming support! Gazebo News – December 17, 2013 http://gazebonews.com/2013/12/17/bernies-book-bank-reaches-two-million-mark/ Chicago Sun-Times – December 17, 2013...

Looking back at the press for Bernie's Book Bank in 2012 here is what we found! Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.- Victor Hugo December 2012...