What IRS- qualified charities accept contributions of used books and record albums?

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Request for Question Clarification by sgtcory-ga on 29 Oct 2002 06:38 PST

Hello swordfish -

There are an enormous amount of charities that accept these types of
contributions. Did you have a general area (state or city) of
interest?

Thanks for the clarification -
SgtCory

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Clarification of Question by swordfish-ga on 29 Oct 2002 07:20 PST

in the central new jersey area

Hi swordfish,

I went looking for some places that might accept your books and/or
records as tax-deductible donations, and found the following
possibilities:

WFMU
http://www.wfmu.org/Help/donate.html
This record station will give you a tax receipt if you donate old
records.  They are located in Hoboken.

Morris County Library: Where to Donate Used Books
http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/usedbooks.html
This page gives contact information for local and international groups
that take donations of used books.

MAIN Member Libraries
http://www.gti.net/main/alpha.html
This is an alphabetical list of public libraries in New Jersey.  You
should contact the ones closest to you to see if they hold regular
book sales and would be interested in receiving your donation.

Morris County Schools
http://www.gti.net/main/schools.html
Schools often will hold book drives and/or sales to raise money for
their libraries.  This pages lists many school media centers with
their contact information.

Colleges in New Jersey
http://www.collegesinnewjersey.com/
This list of colleges will get you to the homepages of each one.  If
you are interested in donating your materials to one of the local
colleges/universities, your best option is to go to the library's
website for information.

I found these by doing a Google search for the following terms:

lp or records or books
donation
"donate used books"
"New Jersey"

librariankt

swordfish -

A good place to donate books, in general, are to libraries.  Public
and university libraries are generally IRS qualified charities, and
they are always looking for donations of books to supplement their
collections (either by putting the book itself into the stacks or by
selling the book and using the proceeds to purchase new ones).  If
there is a local school of music they might be interested in the
records.

Another option are the various resale stores.  In my area there are
two options - the public schools' PTA runs two thrift shops that raise
money to supplement education budgets (and thus are "charities") and
several churches hold annual bazaars to raise money for local and
national causes.  Since both the schools and the churches are
nonprofit charities (according to the IRS), you can get a tax receipt
for donating your materials.  They love getting books and records,
since they are fairly easy to sell, take up not too much space, and
don't require laundering before they are saleable.

Does this answer your question, or are you looking for a specific list
of charities?  Please let us know so that we can help!

librariankt

One word: Goodwill.