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Overview

First Book is a nonprofit organization providing books and educational resources to children in need across the United States. Join 600,000+ educators making a difference.

News

News PublishersWeekly.com 24 days ago
First Book, Kwame Alexander
The National literacy nonprofits are teaming up on a free virtual game show to promote the joy of reading among young people.
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News markets.businessinsider.com 1 month ago
First Book and One Word at a Time Partner to Launch
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- To spark the joy of reading, the national nonprofits First Book and One Word at a Time are inviti...
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News twincities 6 months ago
Literary calendar for week of April 12
V.T. Bidania will discuss her novel in verse, "A Year Without Home," about a Hmong girl losing and finding a home in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, in conversation with author Payal Doshi on Saturday at the Red Balloon Bookshop.
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News Open Culture 1 year ago
Mark Twain Wrote the First Book Ever Written With a Typewriter
My Penguin Classics copy of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi sits alone atop an overfull shelf. There is a bookmark on page 204, exactly halfway through, torn from an in-flight duty-free catalog---whiskey and fancy pens.
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News History Today 1 year ago
The Battle for Britain's First Book of the Month Club
Britain's first book-of-the-month club - the Book Society - brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some controversy.
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News the Guardian 2 years ago
Envy, ego, pride and pain: what I learned from publishing my first book Hamilton Nolan
Years torturing yourself before a blank page are followed by months of scrambling for publicity, followed by oblivion
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at First Book over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
71/100
Languages
SQL
Cloud & platforms
Power BI
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$90k
Typical range
$75k – $115k
Open positions
4
3 Jobs
Senior 66.7%
Staff 33.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Senior 2 $90k $90k
Staff 1 $115k $115k
Highest paying role Controller, Accounting, & Financial Operations $115k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
4
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
69 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
60% ▲
Sales
40% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Washington
Washington United States
HQ
First Book
4 open roles 5 posted in 90 days $93k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Sales
Washington
seen since Jun 2026 company site, job postings