This page is published by the New Mexico Literacy Project to document the donation-routing relationship between NMLP and UNM Children's Hospital Reading Program. UNM Children's Hospital Reading Program has not formally endorsed this page; if you represent the organization and want to claim, update, correct, or remove this page, please contact [email protected] or call 702-496-4214.
Why this matters
Pediatric hospitalization is hard on kids and families. A familiar book in a hospital bed or waiting-room corner is a small but real comfort. The UNM Children's Hospital reading program — and similar pediatric reading programs at hospitals across the country — depend on donated trade books to maintain their inventory at the rate inpatient and outpatient pediatric volume churns through them. NMLP supplies a portion of that flow for the Albuquerque metro.
What NMLP donates
- Children's picture books and board books for inpatient pediatric units and waiting rooms
- Trade paperback chapter books for older pediatric patients
- Bilingual English/Spanish children's books for the high Hispanic patient population
- Activity books, coloring books, puzzle books appropriate for hospital settings
- Books in good cosmetic condition (hospital infection-control standards limit which donations are accepted)
How the routing works
NMLP sets aside reading-condition children's books with no visible damage, mold, or odor for routing to the UNM Children's Hospital reading program. Books pass through NMLP's warehouse sort and are delivered to the hospital's program coordinators. Volume scales with the rate of children's-book donations from estate cleanouts, downsizing seniors, and APS-area moving households.
How this routing started
Direct outreach from NMLP to UNM Hospital pediatric services after recognizing the volume of children's books that needed routing to verified institutional reading programs.
If you are with UNM Children's Hospital Reading Program
NMLP welcomes feedback, corrections, expansions, or removal requests. Specifically:
- Want to add a quote, photo, or program detail? Send it via email and NMLP will publish it with attribution.
- Want to add this page as a link from your own site? Use anchor text "NMLP donation routing partnership" or any descriptive equivalent — NMLP appreciates the reciprocity.
- Want to claim editorial control over this page? NMLP will hand the page over to you with full content authority.
- Want this page removed? NMLP removes it promptly after email confirmation, no questions asked.
Contact: [email protected] · 702-496-4214
If you have books to donate that could route here
Free in-home pickup across the Albuquerque metro. Any condition. NMLP routes children's books, regional history, large-print fiction, and other category-fit donations to UNM Children's Hospital Reading Program and other partners as they come through the warehouse.