$5k Match – Social Justice Children’s Book Fair
Hey fam, my organization the Social Justice Children’s Book Fair got a $5k grant and will be fundraising over the next 30 days to match it dollar for dollar. If you’re unfamiliar with the fair I invite you to check out….
Our Website: Site, 2025 fair, 2025 Award winners,
Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube
Press: Oaklandside article, NBC News clip, Hard Knock (KPFA) Radio Interview
Here are some photos taken by photographer Mark Rea from the 2025 fair. Wanna see more? Check out this Facebook page or our website.
Short Mission: Bruh, make a kids book fair that champions social justice kid lit. Also, champion Bipoc, Queer, Immigrant, and Social Justice creators and kid focused orgs.
Longer Mission & Vision: Our mission is to promote social justice through the power of children’s books. We support independent children’s book creators to conceive, develop, distribute, and champion social justice-themed children’s books. We do this through our signature event, the annual Social Justice Children’s Book Fair, and other ongoing projects and initiatives.
We envision a world where children’s book creators have the ability to conceive, develop, distribute, and champion a diversity of social justice-centered stories that need to be told as they look to reach all children, families, teachers, librarians, and book lovers.
My Why: I believe there are some amazing stories about culture, class, race, gender, identity, politics, history, etc that need to be shared with a wider audience and I get to help facilitate that as one of many organizers of this fair. I believe in representation, being able to see yourself in literature early, and I believe in literacy for liberation and fun.
Accomplishments:
- 2 years of co-curating Youth Lit Day for Bay Area Book Festival
- Over 2k attendees
- Thousands of kids books donated to Bay Area students
- 1700 Social Media followers
- 400+ Stories
- 100+ Creators, authors, illustrators, publishers, etc
- 30+ Organizations
- 10 years this year!
- 8 Performers
7 years all volunteer, 2 years w/ small funding. Imagine what we could do with more. Wanna help us continue to grow this?
