2024-04-16T07:16:05-04:00 2023-05-31 990EZ 2022-06-01 411977201 WOMENS PRISON BOOK PROJECT % Placeholder WOME 9204702140 3751 17TH AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55407 Emily Whitman Director 2024-04-16 2022 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X https: wpbp.org X X 80604 X 77207 0 1384 521 863 2013 2013 80083 10200 64322 74522 5561 42677 48238 42677 48238 42677 48238 42677 48238 X Education Book Purchases: In 2022 Women's Prison Book Project provided free books and educational materials to more than 3,100 women and trans people incarcerated across the United States. We purchase essential health and wellness resources like Trans Bodies Trans Selves; educational resources like GED test prep manuals; addiction and trauma recovery workbooks; career licensing and testing manuals; and materials for reentry and transition planning -- in addition to resources of comfort like novels memoirs journals daily affirmations and spiritual tomes -- and ship them to our community of incarcerated readers on their request to keep at no cost to the recipient. With the support of local bookstore partners who allow us to purchase some resources at cost in addition to contributions of gently used books from folks around the country we are able to furnish highly appreciated resources at an organizational cost of less than $8.25 per recipient. 0 25578 Postage Shipping and Related Supplies: In this tax year Women's Prison Book Project shipped more than 6,350 packages filled with meaningful reading materials. Each package includes three books or one journal in addition to resource guides that include contact information for organizations that provide educational legal health recovery and reentry support. Across the number of packages we mailed this year our expenses for postage and shipping supplies amount to $5.33 per shipment -- an increase over previous years due to the consistent rise of postage rates. 0 33903 Occupancy: We house our collection of books and resources in a one-room office in Minneapolis Minnesota. Every Sunday we gather with volunteers to read letters from our community carefully select useful items from our bookshelves and wrap packages for shipment. Women's Prison Book Project is run entirely by volunteers including our core collective who direct the organization; we call on the support of more than 400 people who volunteer their time and energy -- some occasionally and some every week -- to be able to do this work with no labor costs. 0 10200 Information Technology and Office Expenses: The people Women's Prison Book Project serves do not have agency over their physical locations; they are moved from prison to prison and their sentences can be lengthened for minor infractions. Using online inmate-locator databases run by prisons we search for each person who will receive a package -- about 120 each week -- to learn if the prison in which the recipient is currently located will allow them to receive our shipments and if so with what restrictions. Our Information Technology and Office Expenses which give us access to those databases and provide materials to print resources and label packages amount to just $0.44 per shipment. 0 2781 72462 Aliya Khan Director 5 0 0 0 Ashley Tait Director 5 0 0 0 Beth Derenne Director 5 0 0 0 Carol Greenwald Director 5 0 0 0 Dana Bettis Huseth Director 5 0 0 0 Emily Whitman Director 5 0 0 0 Eleanor Beaird Director 5 0 0 0 Linda Pozen Director 5 0 0 0 Lynn Booth Director 5 0 0 0 Maggie Anderson Director 5 0 0 0 Rebecca Froehlich Director 5 0 0 0 Sara Olson Director 5 0 0 0 X false false true false false false 0 false false false false MN Emily Whitman 3751 17TH AVE S MINNEAPOLIS MN 55407 9204702140 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 35079 56119 73543 59815 78591 303147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35079 56119 73543 59815 78591 303147 10000 293147 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7343 7406 229 1370 2013 18361 321508 0.9118 0.8814 X Part II - Line 10 | Year:, Amount:, Description:| 2018, 7343, Sale of inventory| 2019, 7406Sale of inventory| 2020, 229Sale of inventory| 2021, 1370Sale of inventory| 2022, 2013Sale of inventory| Bouchercon Conference Beneficiary 13702 13702 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13702 13702 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Part I, line 16 | Other Expenses:, Amount:| 6010 - Postage Shipping: $32,337.89 ; 6020 - Book Purchases: $25,578.49 ; 6030 - Postage supplies: $1,565.42 ; 6040 - Office Supplies: $1,289.80 ; 6300 - Volunteer Appreciation: $761.88 ; 7100 - Accounting Software: $477.95 ; 7300 - Equipment Furniture: $388.66 ; 7300 - IT: $1,102.87 ; 8100 - PayPal Fees and Other Processing Fees: $818.92 || Total other expenses 64,321.88, $64322| Part V, line 35 | Explanation:| The unrelated business income received by Women's Prison Book Project WPBP does not meet the requirement outlined in IRS Publication 598 of being "regularly conducted" business activity. These business activities selling WPBP-branded shirts at our single annual fundraiser and at the infrequent request of volunteers and occasionally selling unuseable book inventory are not pursued "in a manner similar to comparable commercial activities of nonexempt organizations."|