The YPG’s community service initiative, YPG Cares, was formed to promote our mission to give junior employees a chance to build a network outside of their own publishing houses and to support literacy-related intiatives in New York City’s volunteer community.
Come help Project Cicero with its annual book drive on March 9-11 at the Hotel Pennsylvania! Volunteers will assist in moving books, categorizing topics, packing and unpacking additional sets of books, and directing participating teachers as necessary.
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YPG has been given access to Learning Ally’s New York studio (545 Fifth Avenue, NYC) from 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm on Saturday, March 3rd to support the Record-a-Thon. In the process, YPGers will learn more about the process of recording audio books and even hop into a booth to do some recording that...
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Sign up to participate in YPG Cares' fourth collaborative event with the Center for Fiction on Saturday, February 11, from 11:00 am-2:00 pm! 8-10 YPG volunteers will help with the sorting, unpacking, and organizing of a huge donation that they just received for their NYC schools book drive.
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Join YPG Cares for our fourth event the Story Pirates on Wednesday, February 8th, from 7:00-8:30pm! Come show "story love" to NYC schoolchildren by providing positive editorial feedback on their short stories.
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On Saturday, October 15, 2011, a group of 16 YPG Cares volunteers from 9 AAP member publishing houses and a handful of literary agencies took part in New York Cares Day 2011 for the second consecutive year.
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Do you remember the person in your life who inspired your love of reading and writing? Maybe it was a parent, or an older sibling, or a teacher. On Thursday, November 3, 2011, twenty YPG Cares members gathered at the Drama Book Shop to participate in the group’s third Story Love session with the...
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On October 24th, 2011, YPG Cares held its very first book drive with resounding success! A project to tug the heartstrings, YPG Cares has been partnering with Operation Paperback to collect children's books to send to our troops overseas so that they can record themselves reading the books aloud to their children.
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In its second collaboration with Housing Works Bookstore, on Sunday, September 25, 2011, several members of YPG Cares from five AAP member publishing houses assisted with the Housing Works Bookstore Open Air Street Fair.
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Girls Write Now has a mission very near and dear to the heart of YPG Cares. The first organization in the United States, and the only one on the East coast, to combine mentoring and writing instruction within the context of all-girl programming, Girls Write Now (www.girlswritenow.org) has given more than 3,500 at-risk girls...
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NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) invited YPG members to attend “Career Night,” an informational session focused on their publishing courses, certificates and master’s program on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011.
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