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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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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Books Through Bars is an all-volunteer-run collective that sends free books to incarcerated people across the country. Currently, they have a backlog of over 500+ letters from prisoners requesting books, so join YPG Cares and stop by for a packing party! It’s a small space, so we need about 15 volunteers...
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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, March 18 from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm, then please sign up here. YPG has historically been an asset...
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Interested in helping keep youngsters writing and creating? On Wednesday, February 7th, from 7:15–8:30 pm at The Drama Book Shop (250 W. 40th Street), we’ll be reading through short stories written by elementary school children and writing personalized notes back to encourage their love of arts and learning. Enjoy kids’ incredibly funny tales...
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Interested in helping keep youngsters writing and creating? On Wednesday, January 10th, from 7:15–8:30 pm at The Drama Book Shop (250 W. 40th Street), we’ll be reading through short stories written by elementary school children and writing personalized notes back to encourage their love of arts and learning. Enjoy kids’ incredibly funny tales...
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