Title: AIDA Books&More: a project beyond reading

Authors: Elisa Baraibar-Diez; María D. Odriozola; José Luis Fernández Sánchez

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain ' Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain ' Department of Business Administration, University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, s/n, 39005, Santander, Spain

Abstract: Cutbacks in official development assistance (ODA) have forced many NGOs to diversify their sources of funding to continue (and also expand) their projects in destination countries. AIDA is a non-governmental organisation for development cooperation working in Morocco, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Lebanon and Bangladesh. In search for new sources of funding, AIDA Books&More was born in 2009 in Segovia (Spain). It was the first charity bookshop in Spain and eight years later, 220 volunteers are involved in a project that has an online store and nine outlets (Segovia, two shops in Madrid, two shops in Valencia, Castellón, Barcelona, Santander, and Vigo). This project began as a complement to the financing of other cooperation projects but since 2009 it has been materialised in a stable funding source, which will allow the organisation to launch other types of projects during 2017.

Keywords: non-for-profit organisations; non-governmental organisations; NGOs; charity bookshops; accountability; cooperation projects; social entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/WREMSD.2019.098467

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2019 Vol.15 No.1/2, pp.60 - 75

Received: 10 Jun 2017
Accepted: 11 Jul 2017
Published online: 25 Mar 2019 *

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