HUGE THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS
Proud Partner
On behalf of United of Central Carolinas, you have been approved for the 2023 grant funding as a 1st year.
Powered Up and Fired Up!
Books with Color is sponsored by Duke, and is a proud member of the 2023 United Charlotte Cohort of the United Way of Greater Charlotte.
SEED20
Created by Social Venture Partners, the annual SEED20 programs identifies, highlights, and connects the community to our region’s most innovative ideas for tackling pressing social challenges. These innovations can be developed by an individual or start-up, an emerging nonprofit, or a well-established nonprofit.
Introducting Harrison Martin, CEO
Books with Color, Inc. has a new CEO!
Harrison Martin, a member of the Books with Color Authors Alliance has stepped up to take on the next chapter of Books with Color. Huge congrats, Harrison and welcome to the role!
Harrison Martin was born in Greenville, SC. After graduating from East Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte, NC, he attended Gardner-Webb University on a football scholarship. There he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies: Video & Film and his International Master of Business Administration. He loves watching movies, hiking, cooking, and creative writing. Some of his favorite things to eat are steak, doughnuts, and bacon.
Reach out to Harrison at info@bookswithcolor.org.
We were thrilled to be part of the 2024 Social Venture Partners Charlotte class’s SEED20 program. SEED20’s mission is to promote the power of social innovation.
Co-Founder Lawrence Gordon
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
-Charles W. Eliot
Help us color every shelf in the world with Books with Color!
Books with Color Summit
Books with Color Summit
Books with Color Summit
Join us for an exciting event celebrating the vibrant world of books and diversity! The Books with Color Summit is a must-attend gathering for book lovers, writers, and anyone interested in promoting inclusivity in literature. A huge thanks to our sponsors: @unitedwaygreaterclt, @duke_energy, and @livlibraries, and our venue sponsor, the @cmlibrary
Our History
Books with Color Summit
Books with Color Summit
Books with Color was founded in 2020 by two Charlotte authors who saw firsthand that minority children were greatly underrepresented in children's literature. The mutual will to "be the change" and correct this social injustice led our founding Authors to organize and partner with more authors, supporters, and friends to solve this problem together, one classroom and one book at a time.
Our Mission
Books with Color Summit
Our Mission
Our Mission is to increase the accessibility of inclusive and bi-lingual children's reading materials via strategic partnerships between diversity-driven authors and the communities who support them.
Our vision is to provide all children with ample access to age-appropriate reading materials featuring diverse characters and situations that more accurately reflect the colorful world we live in.
Sponsor A Classroom
That's 25 Kids!
$50.00
Your donation will go towards purchasing three children's books from a self-published author. The author will read aloud and leave those books in the classroom where kids can self-select a book with characters that look like them. This means 25 children will see the power of knowing all children can be the heroes, the princesses, and the solvers of books.
BWC Author Alliance spotlight
Lucretia Berry
Erika Ferrari Lopez
Erika Ferrari Lopez
Made from the words brown and ethnicity. Brown represents melanin, the brown pigment we all have. Ethnicity means that which we have in common. Essentially, we all are hues of brown!
Erika Ferrari Lopez
Erika Ferrari Lopez
Erika Ferrari Lopez
In 2021, I began writing my first children’s book, The Adventures of Amazing Grace, about family, flying, magic, and friendship! The book was inspired by a dream I had that turned into a bedtime story for my daughter.
Sandra Scott
Erika Ferrari Lopez
Sandra Scott
Sandra Elaine Scott is a Transformational Speaker, Soft Skills Trainer, and certified Dream Coach(r) who is inspired by the world around her. This memoir has been a labor of love, and Sandra is excited to share her mother with the world.
Site Content
WFAE | By Soumaya El Filali
A new authors' alliance brings diverse and bilingual children's books to Charlotte schools
United Way | By Taylor Mabrey
Increasing representation and diversity in children's books across Charlotte.
PARTNERS cont'd
Warren Publishing
A premier hybrid book publisher since 1988, we are passionate about bringing works of merit to the market. Authors benefit from our publishing history and our relationships with global distributors, re-sellers, wholesalers, and retailers.
Read Charlotte
Read Together is a collaborative effort to have more children in Mecklenburg County experience reading together with an adult, which is a simple yet powerful way to help children develop and grow critical literacy skills.
PARTNERS cont'd
Living Libraries is a publishing partner and serves as the official imprint for internally produced books so we can help create new deserving authors and allow their stories to be shared.
Apparo and Coca-Cola Consolidated worked with BWC to prioritize a new technology solution for booking authors.
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