Charitable Partners
Bouchercon 2027 is proud to designate two local DC nonprofits as partner charitable organizations: DC Public Library Foundation and Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop. Proceeds from both our live and silent auctions, and the sale of our anthology will help support their missions to foster literacy, education, and community.
Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop
Free Minds uses the transformative tools of books, writing, and peacebuilding to create a community of support, assisting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youths and adults to achieve their education, career, and life goals, write new chapters in their lives, and become powerful voices for change. Access to educational programs, while incarcerated, has proven to reduce recidivism. By reaching these youths at this critical juncture and exciting them about learning, Free Minds provides the necessary opportunities, resources, and support for these youths and adults to envision new possibilities for their futures, and to make those visions a reality.
DC Public Library Foundation
The DC Public Library Foundation was founded in 1985 to coordinate funding for a mural of Martin Luther King, Jr. and has since secured and administered over $4M in funding for DC Public Library programs, with literacy and children’s programs as key focus areas The Foundation has raised substantial funds to support such programs as the library’s Summer Reading program; citywide initiatives to support early literacy, such as “Sing, Talk and Read,” which helps young parents learn the importance of using books to interact with their babies; computer training classes, especially for job seekers; and programs serving the Spanish-speaking population and those in need of special services such as the deaf or visually impaired.