Barnes & Noble College to donate $100,000 to ‘Build A Future’ with Habitat for Humanity this academic year
NEW YORK (September 19, 2012) – Barnes & Noble College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS), is pleased to provide students heading back to campus for the new school year with an opportunity to support Habitat for Humanity through a new partnership. Barnes & Noble College will donate 100,000 in support of its “Build a Future” partnership with Habitat for Humanity this academic year. The program is part of BUiLD, Habitat’s movement to create a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
“As we focus on ways to save students money and to create tools to make their studying more efficient, we also share students’ desire to support causes and organizations that promote the greater good,” said Max J. Roberts, president and CEO, Barnes & Noble College. “We’re excited to stand beside our students and build a better future with our communities through our partnership with Habitat for Humanity.”
Barnes & Noble College will also donate up to an additional 25,000 for a unique social-sharing campaign that enables students to share their support of Barnes & Noble College’s philanthropic campaign on their campus bookstores’ Facebook pages.
“Habitat for Humanity is thrilled to partner with Barnes & Noble College in the BUiLD campaign, encouraging higher-education students to support affordable housing work nationwide,” said Lysa Ratliff, senior director of Corporate and Cause Partnerships for Habitat for Humanity International. “Young people are key drivers of the BUiLD movement, because they mobilize their peers to join the fight to end poverty housing through ways beyond traditional volunteerism — such as spreading the word on social media.”
For more information on Barnes & Noble College’s efforts to support Habitat for Humanity, visit http://www.bnctextbookrental.com/.
To join the BUiLD movement, take the free pledge at www.habitat.org/build.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, operates 689 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 667 college bookstores serving more than 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web’s largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than 2.5 million titles in its NOOK Bookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software. Barnes & Noble is proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associated 2012 Customer Service Champion and is only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music and video category and a top 10 online retailer overall in customer satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).
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About Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International is a global nonprofit Christian housing organization that seeks to put God’s love into action by bringing people together to build homes, communities and hope. Since 1976, Habitat has served more than 500,000 families by welcoming people of all races, religions and nationalities to construct, rehabilitate or preserve homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. For more information, to donate or to volunteer, please visit www.habitat.org, or follow us at www.facebook.com/habitat or at www.twitter.com/habitat_org or join Habitat’s blog community at www.habitat.org/blog.