YPG Cares: Girls Write Now College Essay Writing Workshops Please note: These are DAYTIME commitments! Girls Write Now is looking for volunteers to help with their college essay writing workshops. Come support some hopeful college-bound students in drafting, writing, and refining their personal letters for college applications. Volunteers have the opportunity to either act...
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The National Book Foundation is looking for volunteers for its third annual Why Reading Matters conference, focused on reading without boundaries. The conference is designed to bring together educators, nonprofit administrators, librarians, academics, publishing professionals, writers, and literary activists of all kinds to discover and share ways to welcome more readers into their community....
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Housing Works is looking for 6 to 8 YPG volunteers to help their online sales department scan and sort their book donations to see if they are sellable. If you are available on Sunday, May 20 from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, then please sign up here. YPG has historically been an asset...
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The Bronx Book Festival, taking place on Saturday, May 19, aims to promote literacy and foster a love of reading among children, teens, and adults. The festival will cover a wide range of topics relevant to the Bronx community through panels, workshops, and more with award-winning and bestselling authors, illustrators, and creators. The festival will...
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Housing Works is looking for 6 to 8 YPG volunteers to help their online sales department scan and sort their book donations to see if they are sellable. If you are available on Sunday, April 15 from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, then please sign up here. YPG has historically...
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Volunteer at Read Ahead’s annual gala! Read Ahead, a reading-based mentoring program for elementary school students, needs volunteers for their annual rooftop gala in April. Spaces are limited, so please sign up as soon as possible! The gala will be on Monday, April 30 beginning at 6:00 pm (volunteers should arrive between 5:00 and...
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World Book Night (WBN) is a super-fun, global effort for book lovers like us to spread the joy of reading by giving away books. While the US’s official partnership with WBN ended in 2014, we at YPG have continued the tradition. This year, we are having our very own ROGUE World Book Night,...
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YPG was honored to have PEN America speak at our 2017 Young to Publishing Conference this past December. They are now offering our members an opportunity to volunteer at various events across the city for The 2018 World Voices Festival, which will run April 16–22. If you would like to be considered for a...
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Volunteer with Project Cicero and help put books straight into the hands of New York City teachers and librarians! Project Cicero is a fantastic organization that, to date, has placed two million books into more than 11,000 classrooms and school libraries reaching over 500,000 children in under-resourced schools in New York City. Volunteers can...
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On Monday, February 26, find your perfect match—with a book! Come to Drexler’s (9 Avenue A) from 6:30–8:30 pm to see if you can guess the book and get entered to win a related ARC. And do good at the same time: it’s for charity, so don’t forget to bring a new...
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