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Online books financing real-live schools

The Book Standard has an article about the Acadiana Educational Endowment, a fund that distributes small grants to teachers who can’t afford to finance classroom projects. In 2003, AEE founder Joseph Abraham decided to expand the reach of the program, establishing the online bookstore booksxyz.com, which, as reporter Anna Weinberg writes, “helps fund the mini-grants and also donates 5% of each sale to the U.S. college or school of the buyer’s choosing.”

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