HarperCollins’ New to Publishing and Access Aspiration programs encourage people from underrepresented and low-income communities to enter the publishing field.
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HarperCollins’ New to Publishing and Access Aspiration programs encourage people from underrepresented and low-income communities to enter the publishing field.
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Collins, Farshore, and HarperCollins Children’s Books are excited to be working with Wastebuster on the not-for-profit recycling program, Recycle to Read. We will be supplying books as rewards to participating schools who organize and promote toy, textiles and battery takeback collections in exchange for vouchers to spend on books.
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HarperCollins proudly supports Pajama Program, a nonprofit that ensures children have access to healthy sleep by providing new pajamas, storybooks and sleep health education. The program helps children facing challenges like low income, housing insecurity, and family instability develop better bedtime habits, which improves school performance, health, and emotional well-being. HarperCollins employees volunteered to teach children in the Bronx about healthy bedtime routines and donated books.
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HarperCollins saved the equivalent of 3.2 million gallons of water and 2.8 million kg of CO2 emissions in fiscal 2023 through its use of Rolland Envirobook paper (the only book publishing paper made in North America consisting of 100% post-consumer waste recycled fiber), and Rolland Opaque paper, which consists of 30% recycled fiber.
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HarperCollins UK’s Our Little Big Book Club, an in-school family reading club targeting children struggling with literacy by enabling them to choose the books they read at home with their families expanded to reach, now reaches over 900 children in 98 schools around the country.
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Reducing plastics in book production at HarperCollins, including the elimination of approximately 1.5 metric tons of microplastic-containing glitter on HarperCollins UK products.
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HarperCollins UK launched two new initiatives to recruit from underrepresented backgrounds: the Marketing Manager Program for talented individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds with marketing experience, and the Socioeconomic Traineeship designed to bring in talent from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Since 2013, HarperCollins has donated books—including Spanish language titles—to Project Cicero, an organization that creates and enhances classroom and school libraries in under-resourced New York City public schools.
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HarperCollins supports Housing Works, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting AIDS and homelessness for the past 10 years. During this period, the company has donated more than 230,000 books to the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, with donations of nearly 30,000 books this fiscal year. One hundred percent of the store’s profits go toward funding the organization’s lifesaving services.
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HarperCollins UK became a member of On Pack Recycling Labels (OPRL), a program to promote consumer awareness of what materials can be recycled and where they can recycle them. OPRL labels are widely recognized in the U.K. and give clear information to consumers on items with shrink-wrap or cardboard packaging used to protect products.
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HarperCollins UK announced the launch of Book Squad, a new collaboration between Collins, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Farshore, and Barrington Stoke. Aiming to support reading for pleasure in primary schools, it will provide free unique content about children’s literature, in-depth research, reading recommendations, and free resources
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To celebrate its 200th anniversary, HarperCollins donated $200K to literacy charities, including NCAC, Rood to Read, United Through Reading, and We Need Diverse Books. They also invited book lovers to share #WhyIRead on social media to emphasize the importance of reading. Six winners using the hashtag won ebook prizes and chose a First Book-eligible school or program to receive a donation of 1K books. First Book impacts 6.5M children annually in low-income communities across North America.
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