The Dayton Book Fair has an elaborate mission:
- we provide a meaningful place for people to donate their beloved books
- we sell donated books to benefit three different local non-profits each year via:
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- the third-largest used book sale in the United States
- curated online sales
- our brick and mortar bookstore, Rabbit Hole Books (which has been voted Dayton’s favorite book store every year since we opened)
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- and beginning in 2026, we will be bestowing a new award for literature: the Curious Medal for Literary Endeavor and we are working towards providing writers’ residencies in 2028.
At our offices at 2181 Embury Park Rd. we are open year-round to accept donations of books and also music, movies, puzzles and games.
The proceeds are distributed in the form of grants to different organizations in the Miami Valley, amounting to a total of nearly two million dollars. New beneficiaries are chosen each year. In 2025, proceeds from the sale will benefit the Family Promise of Greene County, the Gem City Roller Derby and the Ohio Performing Arts Institute, among other projects.
The Book Fair Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, incorporated as a registered charity in the State of Ohio.
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