Supporting Literacy

At this book fair in Guelph in 2009, IAIC members collected hundreds of books from the public and donated copies of their own works to the Nunavut libraries. IAIC member Pat Mestern arranged this initiative, and managed to find donors to transport the books to Nunavut at no charge.

IAIC intends to have a yearly book drive for needy regions of the world.

Cheryl Bruder, on the right, giving her donation.

Cheryl Bruder's novel My Mezeppa is geared around therapeutic riding for the disabled. Cheryl pledged $1. per book from a large book signing venue to C.A.R.D. therapeutic riding centre in Toronto.

All proceeds (100%) from Leanne Piper's non-fiction book Fingerprints Through Time: A History of the Guelph Police have gone/are going to the Guelph Police Association charitable foundation, which supports a wide range of services and programs such as Special Olympics, Cancer Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, MS Society, Jessica's Footprint, Alzheimers Society, just to name a few.

When you buy Tim Tentcher's cookbook What a Wonderful World online, $5 will go to a charity of your choice.

Gabriele Wills donated a box of 36 copies of her historical novelThe Summer Before The Storm, set during WW1, to the Canadian troops in Afghanistan for Christmas.

Harold Usher was the Honorary Chair for London and participated in the Fathers' Day WALK/RUN to raise money for prostate cancer research, as part of Prostate Cancer Canada's nationwide activity. They raised almost $60,000 in London.