Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation

Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the Cole Porter Song Book

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"A Book Just For Me"

When people find out that I was the Archivist for Ella’s estate, they always ask me what her Beverly Hills home was like. It was warm and comfortable and filled with music, awards, photographs of children…..and BOOKS! So to commemorate these important facets of Ella’s life, we started our book give-away program, which we named “A Book Just For Me”.

Thanks to Sharon Lanier, the Director of the Ella Fitzgerald Child Care Center in Lynnwood, California, we developed a way to make sure that disadvantaged and at-risk children have the opportunity to actually own their very-own books….most of these kids have never had books in their homes, and their parents just don’t have the time to take them to the library.

So at many child-care and after-school centers around the greater L.A. area, children receive brand-new books on their birthdays, at graduation, for holidays….and sometimes, just when they are behaving especially well. At The Venice Family Clinic and the USC Pediatric Dental Clinic (among others), poor children walk out of their appointments clutching a precious book.

The Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood
El Nido Family Center
Heal the Bay
Operation School Bell
PUENTE Learning Centers
Salvation Army Southern California
The South-Central Family Clinic
Team Prime Time
Westside Children’s Center

Special thanks to the wonderful people at Book Depot for helping to make our book donations possible!

If you would like to contribute to "A Book Just For Me", please click here.