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Emily Ball Cicchini

Executive Director of BookSpring and founder of the National Book Access Association; PhD in organizational communication with background in arts education and nonprofit leadership focused on book access and early literacy.

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Jul 27, 2026

Make Nonprofits Profitable™ | For Nonprofit Leaders Who Want to Diversify Revenue, Build Capacity & Scale to Sustain Impact

Make Nonprofits Profitable™ | For Nonprofit Leaders Who Want to Diversify Revenue, Build Capacity & Scale to Sustain Impact

EP 16 [Summer Spotlight] Innovating for Sustainability with Emily Ball Cicchini

Jul 27 · 36m

Tonya HoranHOST

6:00

how that's come together in its mission and what it's doing? Yeah.

Emily Ball CicchiniGUEST

6:04

Yes.

Emily Ball CicchiniGUEST

6:05

BookSpring is a 50-year-old organization in Austin.

Emily Ball CicchiniGUEST

6:09

We had our 50th anniversary year before last.

Emily Ball CicchiniGUEST

6:12

And its mission is to build a love of reading in children and families, primarily through partnerships with healthcare education and other community partners.

Emily Ball CicchiniGUEST

6:22

So we go and we do kind of book fairs, like scholastic book fairs, except they're free for the kids.

Emily Ball CicchiniGUEST

6:28

We target low-income neighborhoods and zip codes.

8 MINS LATER

Tonya HoranHOST

14:46

Right.