For the Love of Books
Helping bookstore and comic shop employees and owners with unforeseen
emergency financial, medical, and mental health service needs.
Binc Launches Year-End Campaign with Largest Ever Match
ANN ARBOR, MI--The need for emergency financial assistance within the book and comic community continues to grow and thanks to Penguin Random House, AdventureKEEN, and HarperCollins, the Book Industry
Binc Announces Winner of Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists
ANN ARBOR, MI -- A Massachusetts bookseller committed to preventing overdoses in their community has won the seventh Carla Gray Memorial Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists awarded by the Friends
Binc Announces Winners of Emerging Writers Prize
ANN ARBOR, MI – Two booksellers have been selected to receive a $12,500 prize that provides the aspiring writer-booksellers with the financial support to focus on a full-length manuscript.Recognizing Our Leading Partners
Annette Stillson
Annette’s Beach Book Nook
During Hurricane Ian a storm surge of over 8 inches wiped it and many other stores and homes out. Thanks to the help from Binc I was able to pay my mortgage, giving me the time to concentrate on what to do next. I’m happy to say I will be opening Annette’s Beach Book Nook on Fort Myers Beach by the end of summer.
TRISH
California, Downtown Book & Sound
Binc provided urgent rent and utility payment assistance after a month-long bout of COVID put me in a deep financial hole. They were kind and nonjudgmental, providing me the ladder necessary to climb out of that pesky hole. Thank you Binc with a special thanks to the people who listened patiently and acted to help promptly.
K. Kerimian
The Nonbinarian Book, Bike, NY
A huge thank you to Binc for not only selecting me for the Carla Gray Scholarship for Emerging Bookseller-Activists but for supporting me in my gender transition. Because of you, I received gender-affirming surgery this year, which has changed my life. Thank you for everything you do to improve the lives of booksellers everywhere.
