The Young to Publishing Group’s community service initiative, YPG Cares, was formed in support of the YPG mission to give entry-level employees a chance to build a community outside of their own publishing house while supporting literacy-related initiatives in the volunteer community of New York City. For information on upcoming and previous events, click the Community Service tab in the masthead.

Founded in October 2010, it has grown to 70 volunteers from over 20 publishing houses and literary agencies in the New York area. YPG Cares is proud to show support for the following non-profits and community service organizations whose literacy programs are close to our hearts:

• 826NYC (http://www.826nyc.org)
• The Asia Foundation (http://asiafoundation.org/)
• Books for a Better Life (http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/nyn/fundraising/books-for-a-better-life/index.aspx)
• Books for NYC Kids (http://www.centerforfiction.org/kidsread/books-for-nyc-schools/)
• Books Without Borders (http://bookswithoutborders.org/)
• Center for Fiction (http://centerforfiction.org)
• Child Life Program at Mt. Sinai Medial Hospital (http://www.mountsinaihospital.org/patient-care/support-services/volunteer-services/specific-programs)
• Children of Promise, NYC (http://childrenofpromisenyc.org/)
• Family to Family (http://www.family-to-family.org/index.html)
• First Book (http://www.firstbook.org)
• Fund for the Public Schools’ NYC DOE Citywide Mentoring Program (http://schools.nyc.gov/fundforpublicschools/)
• Girls Write Now (http://www.girlswritenow.org/gwn)
• Goddard Riverside Community Center (http://goddard.org/)
• Harlem Children’s Zone (http://www.hcz.org/)
• Housing Works Bookstore (http://www.housingworks.org/volunteer)
• Jewish Book Council (http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/)
• Jumpstart’s Read for the Record (http://www.readfortherecord.org)
• Learning Ally (http://www.learningally.org/)
• Literacy, Inc. (http://www.lincnyc.org/)
• Literacy Partners (http://www.literacypartners.org/)
• LitWorld (http://litworld.org/)
• New York Cares (http://www.newyorkcares.org/)
• New York Public Library (http://www.nypl.org/)
• NYC Books Through Bars (http://booksthroughbarsnyc.org/)
• Operation Paperback (http://www.operationpaperback.org/)
• PEN American Center Readers & Writers Program (http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/147)
• Project Cicero (www.projectcicero.org)
• PS32 (http://www.ps32.org/)
• The Quad Manhattan (http://www.thequadmanhattan.com/)
• Reach Out and Read (http://booksthroughbarsnyc.org/)
• Reading Partners (http://www.readingpartners.org/)
• Red Door Theatre Company (www.thereddoortheatre.com)
• ReLIT NYC (http://www.relitny.org/)
• Story Pirates (http://storypirates.org/)
• Uncommon Schools (http://www.uncommonschools.org/)
• We Are New York Community Project (http://www.projectbyproject.org/ny)
• World Book Night (http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/)

YPG Cares is open to members of the YPG and YPG-Link, with commitment expectations of one event per month. For information on upcoming projects, to volunteer, or to contribute ideas for additional community service activities, email youngtopublishing@gmail.com with the subject heading “YPG Cares.”