“What Can I Do Next???”

THANK YOUfor coming out to the launch of Beers for Books and thinking about what you can do next! I hope you had a good time tonight. For those of you interested in the mission of Room to Read, you have lots of opportunity to keep on contributing to a very worthy cause. Here are some friendly suggestions for following up and taking action:

1) Organize your own Beers for Books event.

It is fun and simple and all the tools you need for organizing a B4B event are at

2) Attend another Beers for Books event.

To find out about upcoming events, check out the events listings on or the Beers for Books group on Facebook.

3) Organize a BookOff/Room to Read book drive at your company.

Information (Japanese only) is available here:

If you have any questions about this, please contact me at and I’ll help get you connected to set up a book drive.

4) Give money to Room to Read.

Room to Read is a 4-star rated (highest rating by Charity Navigator) charity that uses all funds very efficiently. Simply donating cash is almost as fun as drinking beer. You can give a little or you can give a lot.

One fun thing to do would be to get others together for a specific project such as raising enough money to build a school, a library, a girls’ scholarship, etc. in a specific country that you feel an affinity for. For more information on all the different projects, see the RtR website at

5) Spread the word.

Awareness of what we’re doing with Beers for Books is the first step towards getting other people positively involved in having fun to support childhood literacy. If you had a good time tonight and like the idea of Beers for Books, here’s what you can do:

  • Tell your friends in Tokyo that couldn’t come tonight. Let them know there will be some fun B4B events in the near future.
  • Tell your friends in other prefectures about B4B and help us reach our goal of having a B4B event in every prefecture in Japan in 2009.
  • Blog about B4B on your blog if you have one.
  • Post comments & photos, videos. on Facebook, Mixi, etc. and point people to We’ll put up some videos from tonight soon.

THANK YOU again for coming out tonight! See you again at another Beers for Books event.